Ketch Rossi
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***"GARBO" Trailer Teaser. RED ONE goes B&W in my Directorial Debut ***
Hi every one,
at last my turn to post some footage of this ground braking camera, "THE RED ONE"
What seems just few days ago, but has actually been weeks I had the pleasure of Directing and creating the mood for a piece about the life story of the one and only "GRETA GARBO", when Yelena Popovic ( as GARBO) approached me together with Malcolm to Direct and illuminate the shooting of the Trailer Teaser of the script that She and Aaron Crowe had written, I was very exited to be part of it, and off course was very pleased that I was able to convince Yelena and the Producer/Executive Producer Alexandros Potter, to shoot with the RED ONE.
In this almost seven minute trailer teaser, you will see Yelena as GARBO, and Matt Stasi as JOHN GILBERT, in a performance shot all in one location in a beautiful downtown LA hotel set back to the early twenties, were this story takes place.
Yelena wanted to have a B&W finish, which our EDITOR, MARK MANNSCHRECH achieved for her in post, we used two RED ONE cameras, (actually only one) as my dear #349 staid in the case all day, thanks to the flawless performance of the RED ONE #19 of our DP, BLAIR S. PAULSEN, the great MU was done by MUA STHEPANIE DANIEL.
RED ONE was set @ 4k - 2:1 - 23.98 recorded on the RED DRIVE, shot with ZEISS Super Speeds, wanted to shoot with MP's but budget didn't allowed for this one, oh well, next time I'm sure.
One thing I like to point out is that all of the scenes were illuminated with the use of LEDZ BRUTE 9 fixtures, and only 4 of them, as MALCOLM MILLS, Vice President of LEDZ, couldn't bring any more do to back orders after NAB.
And obviously every one knows that even so I try very hard to learn everything I don't know much of anything, but I continue to try hard and learn new things every day, and today I learned how to post video clips.
Don't worry in my new studio in Vegas I will always hire Pros!
Please forgive the lack of some FX sounds such as is the case for the ZIPPO and the pages, as the limited budget that was given to this project didn't allow for more time in post.
In fact the given budget only allowed for me to hire Blair, as DP, and He had also to take care of audio, and no AC, so on set was pretty much him and I, as Malcolm helped as much as He could, so basically Blair and the MUA were the only paid crew members, and in post Manny was the only other, so this was done with a total of three paid crew members including post, all shot and finished with just over $5,000 budget!
Any way this was in deed my Directorial Debut, as well as it was the first time I litten a Film Set, and done so entirely on LEDz fixtures, I enjoy working with every one and even so the extremely long 12 hours plus 4 hours driving to and back from LA, almost killed me, I will do it again and again, as it was a fantastic experience, and I know there will no be an other First time, so I want to Thank you, Yelena and Alexandros for putting your trust in me, Yelena again and MAtt to let me lead you in such great performance, which I believe both of you would have done so with out me, no problem, but I hope I was able to bring just an extra something out of the two of you thru my directions, to Malcolm for going the extra mile in bringing the LEDz fixtures, and been hands on were needed, from Gaffer to Focus Puller and so on, to Blair for having accepted my invitation to shoot this Trailer in such a short notice, at a low budget and for such long hours, his presence on set and his assistance in the setting up of the shots as well as that of the lighting, was imperative to the shoot, and to Manny that has also chipped in with still a very low budget in post and created a work of art out of our shoot.
I have never felt such weird connection to a tool, a camera, but RED is just something else, so thank you Jim and RED team for your accomplishment, which now will make mines possible, Thank you!
*EDIT*
Just loaded on to VUZE, so please fallow the link below.
http://www.vuze.com/details/BB6IYO3XCT4FCUCV4JF2RA3YXJWMDX7O.html
To View the the rest of the behind the scene pics please visit the link below:
http://KETCHROSSI.smugmug.com/gallery/5193777_Zk2oZ#316427711_wWhSr
Hope you enjoyed, and if anything got screwed up in any way, IT WAS ME!:whistling:
Hi every one,
at last my turn to post some footage of this ground braking camera, "THE RED ONE"
What seems just few days ago, but has actually been weeks I had the pleasure of Directing and creating the mood for a piece about the life story of the one and only "GRETA GARBO", when Yelena Popovic ( as GARBO) approached me together with Malcolm to Direct and illuminate the shooting of the Trailer Teaser of the script that She and Aaron Crowe had written, I was very exited to be part of it, and off course was very pleased that I was able to convince Yelena and the Producer/Executive Producer Alexandros Potter, to shoot with the RED ONE.
In this almost seven minute trailer teaser, you will see Yelena as GARBO, and Matt Stasi as JOHN GILBERT, in a performance shot all in one location in a beautiful downtown LA hotel set back to the early twenties, were this story takes place.
Yelena wanted to have a B&W finish, which our EDITOR, MARK MANNSCHRECH achieved for her in post, we used two RED ONE cameras, (actually only one) as my dear #349 staid in the case all day, thanks to the flawless performance of the RED ONE #19 of our DP, BLAIR S. PAULSEN, the great MU was done by MUA STHEPANIE DANIEL.
RED ONE was set @ 4k - 2:1 - 23.98 recorded on the RED DRIVE, shot with ZEISS Super Speeds, wanted to shoot with MP's but budget didn't allowed for this one, oh well, next time I'm sure.
One thing I like to point out is that all of the scenes were illuminated with the use of LEDZ BRUTE 9 fixtures, and only 4 of them, as MALCOLM MILLS, Vice President of LEDZ, couldn't bring any more do to back orders after NAB.
And obviously every one knows that even so I try very hard to learn everything I don't know much of anything, but I continue to try hard and learn new things every day, and today I learned how to post video clips.
Don't worry in my new studio in Vegas I will always hire Pros!
Please forgive the lack of some FX sounds such as is the case for the ZIPPO and the pages, as the limited budget that was given to this project didn't allow for more time in post.
In fact the given budget only allowed for me to hire Blair, as DP, and He had also to take care of audio, and no AC, so on set was pretty much him and I, as Malcolm helped as much as He could, so basically Blair and the MUA were the only paid crew members, and in post Manny was the only other, so this was done with a total of three paid crew members including post, all shot and finished with just over $5,000 budget!
Any way this was in deed my Directorial Debut, as well as it was the first time I litten a Film Set, and done so entirely on LEDz fixtures, I enjoy working with every one and even so the extremely long 12 hours plus 4 hours driving to and back from LA, almost killed me, I will do it again and again, as it was a fantastic experience, and I know there will no be an other First time, so I want to Thank you, Yelena and Alexandros for putting your trust in me, Yelena again and MAtt to let me lead you in such great performance, which I believe both of you would have done so with out me, no problem, but I hope I was able to bring just an extra something out of the two of you thru my directions, to Malcolm for going the extra mile in bringing the LEDz fixtures, and been hands on were needed, from Gaffer to Focus Puller and so on, to Blair for having accepted my invitation to shoot this Trailer in such a short notice, at a low budget and for such long hours, his presence on set and his assistance in the setting up of the shots as well as that of the lighting, was imperative to the shoot, and to Manny that has also chipped in with still a very low budget in post and created a work of art out of our shoot.
I have never felt such weird connection to a tool, a camera, but RED is just something else, so thank you Jim and RED team for your accomplishment, which now will make mines possible, Thank you!
*EDIT*
Just loaded on to VUZE, so please fallow the link below.
http://www.vuze.com/details/BB6IYO3XCT4FCUCV4JF2RA3YXJWMDX7O.html
To View the the rest of the behind the scene pics please visit the link below:
http://KETCHROSSI.smugmug.com/gallery/5193777_Zk2oZ#316427711_wWhSr
Hope you enjoyed, and if anything got screwed up in any way, IT WAS ME!:whistling:
