I was out scouting and filming in the West end of the Salt Lake Valley, into Tooele and the nearby Skull Valley.
Working on a short film project with Photographer | Director Joel Addams and with our model for the day Lindsay Barlow.
Here is a short social media clip mash from the experience.
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We gather some fire wood for a planned shoot, and head out to the west end of Salt Lake City.
Lindsay Barlow driving as the talent for the short.
Just entering the next valley, we find a nice location on the extremely brackish, frozen shore of the Great Salt Lake.
Joel Addams Filming on a Should Rig and 5D
Shooting both on the way there and then as we exit and search around.
Near the car, there are some rocky formations near where the salty shoreline should be and capture some footage.
We then grab some lonely, moody footage. We have Lindsay walking in the vast salty flat space, flirting with the camera a little bit trying to capture the point of view of a couple, or at least the memory of one.
I switched from bts still to capture a few clips on the dry lake bed.
After finishing with this location, we head to the Skull Valley desert.
Making one quick stop, just near the smoke stack near the Saltair.
Grabbing some footage in the nearby 8-10 feet tall plants just off the side of this highway.
We find what seems to be a great location and head down the next few roads and dirt paths.
We get a few establishing shots and wides, we start on a fire for the remaining footage. Lindsay starts by getting some wood out of the truck,
As a few logs get placed we transition for the low light form the fast setting sun.
And get ready to light this bad boy.
With just a touch (gallon...) of gasoline, we are just about ready.
Fire lights and we are just about to hit pitch black in the middle of the desert.
We gather footage and try to stay warm as the wind is picks up and the temperature quickly drops in the teens (F).
With the evening coming to an end, the footage all shot. We take our belongings and pack it up for the night.
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Found this place on the internets via a list of cool places for photos in Utah. Now I maybe got lost and or didn't see everything, but really the entire place seemed a little talked up.
There were definitely some better shots to be had on the way there and the way back.
The victim of a mud slid this area is now feet deep into a pond / swamp that has since been frozen over this winter.
With carvings all over the walls of the structures, this place is most likely used by local kids as a right of passage, hang out spot of sorts.
Only a handful of shacks and one house with some accessories, this place is a great set of a disaster movie. Only one or two squirrels make the hill side home.
Once a slight disappointment has come and gone and you really have nothing else to take a shot of, driving on the nearby back roads and finding some great little landscape shots was the highlight of the trip.
There are a few great bluffs and views of the surrounding mountains and trails.
At a small junction, there is a man made heart formation on the hillside.
With the next few miles littered with great views, it makes the venture to the ghost town worth the gasoline.
