George Mooradian was born and raised in Atlanta, Georgia, where he grew up shooting Super 8 movies of his family. His early interest in motion pictures has subsequently turned into more than five dozen narrative film credits on camera crews and as a cinematographer. He was a camera assistant on Starman, House of Games and Rumble Fish, an operator on The Rapture, Dick Tracy and The Seventh Sign, and landed his first job as director of photography on Prisoner of Rio. He is currently shooting his second season on The Bill Engvall Show. This is his third consecutive Emmy nomination for According to Jim.
According to Jim is a comedy centered on “everyman” Jim (Jim Belushi), his feisty wife Cheryl (Courtney Thorne-Smith), and their three children. In “The Chaperone,” Jim takes his girls as well as a friend’s daughters to a “Hannah Montana-type” concert,where he loses them. The episode follows Jim’s adventures, and his shenanigans, as he tries to locate the girls in a crowded concert hall. The episode involved plate shots, greenscreen, crowd multiplication, handheld camera work, crane shots, MAC 250 lights, smoke, glitter cannons, and reverses.
“My goal with the series has been to use less fill light from the front and exert more motivated source light,” says Mooradian. “We are shooting with more layered lighting. We have been subtracting light, and using hotter splashes to create a cinematic frame. All of that is increasingly sophisticated as I see into the sets with more clarity. Also, playing with color temperature and delving deeply into the Lee swatch book, creates depth and dimension for the seasons. It feels real and gutsier to add ‘green’ at times. We have also been adjusting lens filtration year to year, trying to break away.”
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