Red in France

[Arnaud Paris]

Hello all,

Here is another "Red Country Club" thread:

So who got Red reservations in France?

It would also be interesting if the Red team could provide us with the same reservation world map they showed at the LA screening but displaying the number of reservations on each country.

Arno

[jeremie]

i'm in ;)
#696 and 697

sent you a private message.

[Kristin Stewart]

Here are some info about the Red meeting I'm organizing in Paris. I will update this message regulary.

- date : not fixed yet (january/february)

- place : not fixed yet (depending on how many people expected)

- people expected :
. Jérémie g_remy33@hotmail.com (Red# 696 and 697)
. Arnaud alias arno aparis@sysmicfilms.com (Red# 722)
. Michael alias mcprod mcprod@free.fr (No Red reservation yet)
. Jean-Charles Wolfarth production@jcwolfarth.com (No Red reservation yet)

- suggestion of subjects :
. everyone's projects, business sectors
. constitution of an eventual Red network :

1. Everyone's expectations
2. Camera sharing (how could it work, planning, financing, other gear)
3. The following of the projects, postproduction
4. Solutions that this network would bring to the problem of distribution/diffusion of HD projects
5. Collaboration with other Red users outside France

If you have other ideas, suggestions, don't hesitate !
Please contact us by email to confirm your interest to the meeting, we need to know how many people will attempt to look for a covenient place.

See you soon,

Jean-Charles & Kristin
production@jcwolfarth.com

[Juan Caballero]

What about a French conection in Paris?

[Kristin Stewart]

Sure, samsara, a lot of crime is needed here to wake everyone up !

Seriously, I still believe it could be interesting for some people who can't afford a whole Red system to share one (4-5 persons would be ideal). It would be better than owning a full HDV kit, no ? It's a pity to let this kind of gear sleeping in its box while it could be used on others' projects, not to mention the fact that it would give to these persons some help from the others, as eveyrone knows how difficult it is to constitute a good motivated crew here in France.

Anyway, if anyone's interested, even outside France... Europe is quite small, no ?

Kristin

[Emmanuel Cambier]

Slow typing here sorry

What about a new thread called Red in France n° 256713

You bunch of doublecrossers

Seriously,
Kristin you need to be more precise in what you mean by "sharing" the gear.
If it means I would call you if I needed a second Red for a shoot, instead of calling a rent house I think it sounds good, if it's worth it for you and me.

I could really see a kind of network of people standing for each other, but we must give it a some solid basis.

So wich thread do you prefer guys? :)

Yours emmanuel

[Kristin Stewart]

OK Emmanuel, let's carry on with this thread ! Yes I was thinking of a network. My opinion : knowing how much rental companies here in France overcharge their prices because they're used to deal with producers dealing with State's money, I seriously doubt that, even if the cost of a Red package is very low compared to other brands, they will adjust their prices.

I was more thinking of indie feature/doc/shortfilm work than commercial work. I'm sure we are several readers here who have several features/shortfilms/docs projects. What if we create for instance an association of several filmmakers and we buy together a good Red package ? We could help each other on everyone's projects, just like they did with the Nouvelle Vague ? They succeeded in making their first films because everyone helped the others on their projects. I think we would have a better chance to succeed in our projects this way instead of trying desperately to do it the official way and being more isolated, now that the gear exists.

It's just an idea, maybe you have other ones... I was just think of applying the Red concept to the artistic path of creating movies. If you buy your own gear it will cost you more, you will certainly not use it everyday and you may encounter difficulty to rent it if you don't have a lot of connection.

What do you think, guys ?

Kristin

[Brice Ansel]

Hie guy's, we are such a small group

[Arnaud Paris]

Wow, I did not think I would get so many reactions so quick!!

Well, I totally agree about starting a "Red French Connection" (RFC) to team up and share the gear and the clients :o) I mean it'd be great to be able to refer clients we can't take to other true Red spirits!

I also hate to see how some major rental houses in France sometimes outrageoulsy overcharge just because they got some exclusivity on foreign gear.

On my side I will get 2 Reds plus a Zoom Lens.

Let's get more specific as to where you guys are based, if you are setup as a company or as a freelancer.

I work under a small production company in Paris; doing mostly post production work for TV channels and also some corporate films to survive but trying to do short films to spiritually feed our filmmaker desperate souls...

[mcprod]

hello, I am about to order a red… couldn't one speak in French here or elsewhere?

A+

mcprod