tylerhawes
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THE THINGS WE CARRY wrapped on Monday a three week shoot. They used our two RED cameras with our set of Zeiss Superspeed primes. Director is Ian Mcrudden, who I've worked with before so have high hopes for the film. First time working with DP Gavin Kelly, who did WEST BANK STORY which won the Best Picture Oscar for short film in 2005. He's very talented and totally embraced shooting RED.
The overall workflow for production was we'd have a tech on set taking care of all the data wrangling and grading one shot per setup for Gavin. At night we received the RAW files, Best Light graded using the looks Gavin established on set, and rendered to DVCPRO-HD for the editor (who would get the files immediately since they are using our edit suite).
We had one real downtime on the very last day just a few hours before wrap, when an electrical problem cropped up with the battery. Fortunately we had our second camera available and a third from our RED Tech, so they were back up and running quickly. All said and done, I think RED performed amazingly well for a "beta" camera, maybe even not bad at all for a finished camera.
We're still a couple months from finishing post but already have experimented with the look. I'll have to write-up the rest of what happens once we're finished. It's interesting for us to do this right on the heels of our first 4K feature, WICK, which was shot with the DALSA Origin. The workflows are quite different.
Let me know any questions, and I'll update as we go along from here on out...
The overall workflow for production was we'd have a tech on set taking care of all the data wrangling and grading one shot per setup for Gavin. At night we received the RAW files, Best Light graded using the looks Gavin established on set, and rendered to DVCPRO-HD for the editor (who would get the files immediately since they are using our edit suite).
We had one real downtime on the very last day just a few hours before wrap, when an electrical problem cropped up with the battery. Fortunately we had our second camera available and a third from our RED Tech, so they were back up and running quickly. All said and done, I think RED performed amazingly well for a "beta" camera, maybe even not bad at all for a finished camera.
We're still a couple months from finishing post but already have experimented with the look. I'll have to write-up the rest of what happens once we're finished. It's interesting for us to do this right on the heels of our first 4K feature, WICK, which was shot with the DALSA Origin. The workflows are quite different.
Let me know any questions, and I'll update as we go along from here on out...
