film lighting, a true story

A little quote to inspire the believer in "practical lighting" (from a Maysles Brothers crew guy).

TRUE STORY: I was working on a Documentary series of interviews with THE ROLLING STONES. The director was Albert Maysles, one of the Maysles brothers who had directed the famous Rolling Stones documentary "Gimme Shelter". Obviously it was quite a high-profile job and there were two lighting guys, two grips, and a 10 ton lighting truck, with generator operator. We ran heavy duty cabling from our generator in preparation for a huge lighting set-up. The D.O.P. (whose name I unfortunately forget) ended up using only ONE CHINESE LANTERN connected to a dimmer. By the end of the day we just plugged that into the wall so we could wrap out our cabling. He also used a 100 watt pepper as a Backlight because there were people filming video as well as the two 16mm cameras.

duplassed

I really can't keep making films in SD.

It's time to do the HVX thing. Good enough for the Duplass Bros. Good enough for me. (Expensive, but good enough).

http://www.austinchronicle.com/gyrobase/Issue/story?oid=oid:418678

cloverfield hvx200

I would have been shocked if most of Cloverfield hadn't been shot on an HVX200. It just makes too much sense, knowing the camera (and everything else that's out there) and having seen the film.


It looks like most of the film was shot on the HVX.

Read about it here.

It was a pretty alright monster film that had me jumping around in my seat.

It also looks like I'm going to have to take out a big loan and get a new camera, tripod, editing suite, and the rest. I wish I could wait, but now is the time.

It's time to make movies. Monday, it's time to sell everything around here that somebody wants to buy.

Shopping.

New Soo

Now, here's a guy who knows how to make a film.