Lighting the Scene: Act of Valor DP says DSLRS “most powerful brush”

The Newmeed is comin’ at ya! There’s a new media breakin’ in. It reflects the coming of the meekest Man ever to walk planet Earth – the One who also sustains matter and all life with one sentence – Yeshua Messiah.

This is a first! Major Hollywood production company, The Bandito Brothers (Documentarians of Step into Liquid and the upcoming Waiting for Lightning about Skateboard phenomenon Danny Way) used the Canon CMOS-based (read “wiggly cam”) 5dmkII and 7d cameras to shoot an extensive (militarily funded) documentary of Navy Seals in their (almost) natural habitat. Although events weren’t LIVE warfare, the simulation is, apparently, convincing.

But the lessons I learned on the webcast last Tuesday with DP, Shane Hurlbut and Head of Post, Jacob Rosenberg, are multitudinous. I’m still processing, but there were vivid lessons in

  • types of gear required for (amazingly) fast acquisition,
  • techniques for deployment of an effective DSLR Production,
  • technical considerations for post processing (all Adobe Premiere edits)

Great set of articles here that cover the DSLR shift (in their humble opinion).

Here’s the link to the Videography Mag Webinar (requires signup.. maybe cash) for more info orrrr…  if you would like, you can also contact me (Tom).

Hobbit Production Tool

Hm. Can you guess which camera he will be using? RED! How’d ya know!?

Jackson has a long history with RED, dating back to when he directed the short film ‘Crossing the Line’ as a very early test of prototype RED ONE cameras. “I have always liked the look of Red footage.” he says, “I’m not a scientist or mathematician, but the image Red produces has a much more filmic feel than most of the other digital formats. I find the picture quality appealing and attractive, and with the Epic, Jim and his team have gone even further. It is a fantastic tool, the Epic not only has cutting edge technology, incredible resolution and visual quality, but it is also a very practical tool for film makers. Many competing digital systems require the cameras to be tethered to large cumbersome VTR machines. The Epic gives us back the ability to be totally cable free, even when working in stereo.”

Read the rest of the Nov. 28 post, “Hobbits on Red Epics…” at RedUser.net

Unless the RED Scarlet materializes…

I said that in my last post.. mere days ago.

Well, guess what? RED.com has made some big changes to their site! Those changes include some verrrry interesting references to said “Scarlet!”

Have a look!

Also, some great videos here.