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Jason Kraynek

  • Cinematographer
  • Camera and Electrical Department
  • Director
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Jason Kraynek
My cinematography reel is a selected collection of recent shorts, commercials, music videos, sketches, and narrative films.

Cameras used consist of RED Epic Dragon 6K, RED Epic 5K, Canon C300 mark II and Canon C100.

Gear features include - Blind Spot Gear, Hive Lighting, ARRI, Litepanels, Wooden Camera, Canon, Aputure, Flowcine, 16x9 Inc, ikan, Kino Flo, Westcott, DJI, Zacuto, Manfrotto, F&V, and many more

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CINEMATOGRAPHY reel 2017
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Jason Kraynek has established himself as an Award-Winning Director and Director of Photography, passionate in narrative, story-based films. Stunning visual and practical on-set effects are present in the projects he is involved. The presence of in-camera techniques and colorful vivid images are displayed prominently throughout his work. As a child, Jason was always interested in performing in front of people through magic, toys, or even thrown together music theater shows for the neighborhood parents. He wanted to be a stand-up comedian at a young age and wrote various skits and drew cartoons throughout childhood.

1994 to 1996, Jason started performing, set building, and stage managing various musical theater productions such as Hello Dolly, Chicago, Crazy for you, Once Upon a Mattress, Arsenic and Old Lace, 70s Girls 70s, Annie Warbucks, Living on the Edge, Saturday Night Alive, the King and I, Lucky Stiff, Joesph and the Technicolor Dreamcoat, and Music Man.

From 1996 to 2003, Jason started his career behind the camera in (the era of VHS/hi-8/vhs-c). Completely self-taught and learning with every new project, Jason moved into improv and sketch comedy with groups Beat the Dead Horse, Charming Hooligans, Mongo Like Candy, and the Caffeine Kids. During the years in improv, Jason took on roles as actor, director, cinematographer, camera operator, producer, writer, and editor. Including various film projects like Any Given Sunday, All the World, and the Mongo Like Candy tv series.

The late 90s also provided work as an A/V tech, roadie, and foreman in various event and stage companies. Some groups included - Green Day, Kid Rock, Linkin Park, Dashboard Confessional, Shania Twain, Hall and Oats, Hillary Duff, Coke, Billboard, etc.

In 2003, Jason drifted into the field of photography and developed a media company focusing on video and design, which provided him work with various clients and companies including music, corporate, fashion, and event work. Shooting for various projects in the music, food service, fashion, hair, commercial, theater, and runway industries.

From 2011 to 2021, he branched back into working in film and starting his own production company, JACENKNET. Afterward, he started working as a freelancer in the Chicago film community being involved in hundreds of projects such as narrative films 'Heaven is Hell', 'Bunny', 'Love', 'Gancho', 'Fang', 'The Way I See It, 'Twisted Little Lies', and 'The Christmas Thief'. Music Videos for 'Allister', 'Ganser', 'the New Loud', 'Melter', and 'My Gold Mask'. Clients such as - Lifetime Network, Focus Features, Chicago Bulls, Lego, Consumer Reports, Dolby, Grammy Foundation, Universal Music, BBC, Financial Times, National Geographic, Nike, PBS, Reebok, Rolling Stone, United Airlines, Victoria's Secret, Visa, White Castle, etc. As well as countless commercials, documentary work, ad campaigns, and personal projects.

At the end of 2021, Jason joined The International Cinematographers Guild as a Camera Operator in the Local 600 where he is continuing to pursue both freelance and union opportunities as well as getting married to his longtime girlfriend, Hair/MUA artist Jessica Lynn.
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Jessica Morris, Jason Kraynek, Robert Felker, and Conlan Kisilewicz in Twisted Little Lies (2021)
Jason Kraynek in Coffee Guy (2017)
Mike Meyer, Jason Kraynek, Michael Tsirtsis, and Mark ViaFranco in Heaven Is Hell (2014)
Jason Kraynek in Twisted Little Lies (2021)
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Gerrit O'Neill and Jason Kraynek in The Handoff (2017)
Financial Times
CarnEvil Nights
stage rehearsal
Queers - behind the scenes / day 1
Queers - behind the scenes
rain tower days

Known for

Fang (2022)
Fang
8.8
  • Cinematographer
  • 2022
The Way I See It (2020)
The Way I See It
8.3
  • Camera and Electrical Department
  • 2020
Michelle Borth and Jarrid Masse in The Christmas Thief (2021)
The Christmas Thief
5.6
TV Movie
  • Cinematographer
  • 2021
Jessica Morris in Twisted Little Lies (2021)
Twisted Little Lies
5.1
TV Movie
  • Camera and Electrical Department
  • 2021

Credits

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Cinematographer

  • Ghostlord and the Quest for Dark Presence
    • segment director of photography
    • In Production
  • Fang (2022)
    Fang
    • director of photography
    • 2022
  • Feeding the Beast: 25 Years of Statesville Haunted Prison (2022)
    Feeding the Beast: 25 Years of Statesville Haunted Prison
    • segment director of photography
    • TV Movie
    • 2022
  • CarnEvil Nights (2022)
    CarnEvil Nights
    • director of photography
    • Video
    • 2022
  • Michelle Borth and Jarrid Masse in The Christmas Thief (2021)
    The Christmas Thief
    • director of photography
    • TV Movie
    • 2021
  • Heidi Kurzejka in Carranos (Elizabeth Holmes Parody) (2020)
    Carranos (Elizabeth Holmes Parody)
    • director of photography
    • Short
    • 2020
  • County Care Health: Choose (2019)
    County Care Health: Choose
    • director of photography
    • Video
    • 2019
  • SHE 100.3: Your Song (2019)
    SHE 100.3: Your Song
    • Cinematographer
    • Video
    • 2019
  • Eric Lewis-Baker and Peter S. Kim in Queers! (2018)
    Queers!
    • Cinematographer
    • TV Series
    • 2018
  • County Care Health: You dont have time for a sick day (2018)
    County Care Health: You dont have time for a sick day
    • director of photography
    • Video
    • 2018
  • Pitch Day (2018)
    Pitch Day
    • Cinematographer
    • Short
    • 2018
  • Carson: Good Love (2018)
    Carson: Good Love
    • director of photography
    • Music Video
    • 2018
  • Pares Ratliff: I Hate People (2018)
    Pares Ratliff: I Hate People
    • director of photography
    • 2018
  • Fire Together (2018)
    Fire Together
    • director of photography
    • Short
    • 2018
  • Hard as Steel (2018)
    Hard as Steel
    • director of photography
    • Video
    • 2018
  • Sons of Vienna (2018)
    Sons of Vienna
    • Cinematographer
    • TV Series
    • 2018

Camera and Electrical Department

  • Pretty Ugly- The Story of the Lunachicks
    • camera operator
    • In Production
  • Ghostlord and the Quest for Dark Presence
    • camera operator, gaffer
    • In Production
  • Fang (2022)
    Fang
    • camera operator
    • gaffer
    • 2022
  • Feeding the Beast: 25 Years of Statesville Haunted Prison (2022)
    Feeding the Beast: 25 Years of Statesville Haunted Prison
    • camera operator
    • TV Movie
    • 2022
  • CarnEvil Nights (2022)
    CarnEvil Nights
    • camera operator
    • Video
    • 2022
  • Big-Time Soccer: The Remarkable Rise & Fall of the NASL (2021)
    Big-Time Soccer: The Remarkable Rise & Fall of the NASL
    • camera operator
    • 2021
  • Jessica Morris in Twisted Little Lies (2021)
    Twisted Little Lies
    • a camera operator
    • TV Movie
    • 2021
  • Michelle Borth and Jarrid Masse in The Christmas Thief (2021)
    The Christmas Thief
    • a camera operator
    • director of photography: additional
    • TV Movie
    • 2021
  • Arielle Kebbel and Colin Egglesfield in A Christmas Witness (2021)
    A Christmas Witness
    • a camera operator
    • TV Movie
    • 2021
  • Chris Vecchio in Evils Revenge (2021)
    Evils Revenge
    • key grip
    • Short
    • 2021
  • Seau de Sang (2021)
    Seau de Sang
    • key grip
    • Short
    • 2021
  • Marching Mustangs: Queen Medley
    • camera operator
    • Music Video
    • 2021
  • Majandra Delfino, Sanford Sternshein, David Walton, and Brad Riddell in Later Days (2021)
    Later Days
    • grip
    • 2021
  • Kym Whitley, Bruce Baum, John Copeland, Jeff Bryan Davis, David Koechner, Phil LaMarr, Greg Proops, Lang Parker, Llana Barron, Santina Muha, and Larry Fuller in Izzy Lyon: The Unspun Truth (2020)
    Izzy Lyon: The Unspun Truth
    • camera operator (music video segments)
    • 2020
  • Heidi Kurzejka in Carranos (Elizabeth Holmes Parody) (2020)
    Carranos (Elizabeth Holmes Parody)
    • camera operator
    • gaffer
    • Short
    • 2020
  • The Way I See It (2020)
    The Way I See It
    • camera operator
    • 2020
  • Nicolas DeGrazia, Daniel Kullman, Roxanna Conner, Mark Cuddy, Christopher Mannelli, Brian Quijada, and Ben Izzo in Where Did We Sit on the Bus? (2020)
    Where Did We Sit on the Bus?
    • camera operator
    • 2020

Director

  • Kristen McCabe in Dead Man's Drink (2021)
    Dead Man's Drink
    • Director
    • Short
    • 2021
  • Pares Ratliff: I Hate People (2018)
    Pares Ratliff: I Hate People
    • Director
    • 2018
  • Fire Together (2018)
    Fire Together
    • supervising director
    • Short
    • 2018
  • Hard as Steel (2018)
    Hard as Steel
    • co-director
    • Video
    • 2018
  • Melter: the Golem (2017)
    Melter: the Golem
    • Director
    • Music Video
    • 2017
  • Tower Town (2017)
    Tower Town
    • co-director
    • Short
    • 2017
  • Match.com: Match Stories
    • Director
    • Video
    • 2017
  • Neon Black (2017)
    Neon Black
    • Director
    • Video
    • 2017
  • Ohio Lottery: Owning Optimism (2016)
    Ohio Lottery: Owning Optimism
    • Director
    • Video
    • 2016
  • Action Dan (2016)
    Action Dan
    • Director
    • Short
    • 2016
  • Dan Wasik in Romantic Partner (2016)
    Romantic Partner
    • Director
    • Video
    • 2016
  • Loctite: Matador (2015)
    Loctite: Matador
    • Director
    • Video
    • 2015
  • Container Store: the TCS Difference (2015)
    Container Store: the TCS Difference
    • Director
    • Video
    • 2015
  • 7 in one shot: Kidney (2015)
    7 in one shot: Kidney
    • Director
    • Video
    • 2015
  • Peep Deaths (2015)
    Peep Deaths
    • co-director
    • Short
    • 2015

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    • 5′ 11″ (1.80 m)
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    • jacenK

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