Tommy Van Dyke
Tommy Van Dyke

Creative producer, Capitol Reef, Utah

BYU AdLab, graduating April 2027

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Yamaha, It’s Never Too Late: the film

Yamaha  It’s Never Too Late

Producer, 1st AD and gaffer · Spec campaign · 3 Young Ones Merits

$250 budget, 4 crew, about 25 talent, 167 hours of pre-production, 31 hours of filming and 50 hours of editing

Our spec campaign for Yamaha is about the one thing a man did quit, and what it cost him to return to it decades later. It was one of my biggest pieces: a lot of locations and a lot of night shoots, all on a deadline for the Clios and the Young Ones. A week before the shoot, the recital hall we’d lined up fell through. I found another one by googling. They don’t normally let people film, so we talked with them, showed them the concept and walked them through it. We came in late on a night with no recitals, so we wouldn’t get in their way.

This was such a fun project to be a part of, and we had so much content that we ended up making three different cuts.

I helped come up with the concept and worked on every version of the script with Zack, who wrote and directed it. There were three or four, for how we’d tell the story and how we’d cut it with the montage and the flashbacks. I helped piece that together, going back and forth with the professor.

I did the casting and the locations, and on the shoot days I was the first AD and the gaffer. In the college flashback, I’m the one in the number 5 jersey, because our second actor backed out.

Credits

Producer, 1st AD and gaffer
Tommy Van Dyke
Helped with every step of the way, from the concept and every version of the script to casting, locations and the set.
Director, writer and editor
Zack Wood
DP
David Weibel
Art Director
Lauren Kubricky
Young Ones Merits
Integrated - Traditional
Craft in Writing
Craft in Video

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Director's Cut
30 Second

Frames

A young man looks off across a field at dusk
A young football player sits alone against a wall in the dark
A football player in a white jersey and helmet, lit against black
A man thinks at a desk piled with books
A man’s arm reaches out in the dark
An older man in a suit sits in near darkness

Print

A wrinkled hand with red nails and a diamond ring rests on piano keys marked with note-name stickers. “It’s Never Too Late” with the Yamaha logo
An open beginner’s piano book titled “Twinkle Twinkle Little Star” lies on a desk stacked with law books. “It’s Never Too Late” with the Yamaha logo

Behind the scenes

At night outside a house, a big diffusion frame glows as a camera operator films a young man sitting in a pickup with its door open
In a sunny living room, a man in a cap gestures to a laughing young man and a young woman reading in a chair, gear bags piled in front
In a dark study, the camera monitor shows the scene: a young man writing at a desk of books and an older man standing behind him
A wood-beamed study set up for a shot, a camera slider stretched across the rug toward the book-covered desk
On a hazy stage, a man in a suit sits at a grand piano, seen from behind, as crew hold a bounce board and film from the side
At night on a turf field, two football players, number 3 and Tommy in number 5, pose in front of a green screen between big lights
At night on a wet patio, a camera operator watches the monitor as an older man in a white shirt walks through the shot
A camera operator lines up a shot in the study set, a framed number 3 jersey on the wall behind leather chairs
At night on a football field, a player holding his helmet talks with a crew member beside a green screen