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Frank Mirbach

Frank Mirbach

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Hi guys,

thought I´d share some impressions of our documentary shoot in British Columbia, Canada. Produced and shot this for ARTE, a German and French network for their series GEO this summer. The film is 52 min. and premieres October, 10th.

Shot entirely on RED, using RED zooms 18-50mm, 50-150mm, Zeiss HS 18,50,85mm.

Postpro on FCP in Cineform 4:2:2 1080p.

Carrying the heavy beast trough the wilderness of the Rockies was a pain in the ass, but the footage was worth it !!

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Incredible. I wish this would be possible to achieve something similar with the fixed Scarlet. Very beautiful. The first picture reminded me of the forrest shot from Antichrist.
 
Sichlau said:
Incredible. I wish this would be possible to achieve something similar with the fixed Scarlet. Very beautiful. The first picture reminded me of the forrest shot from Antichrist.
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Well thanks ! I wish I could have done it with the light configuration of EPIC X. It was extremely exhausting. Jarred told me at IBC he couldn´t believe we did this with the RED 1 :001_cool:
 
Beautiful,

Did you use cards or drive ssd/hdd?
 
S.Matthews said:
absolutely beautiful, gotta love Canada. I love the shots you've shown looks great, what parts of BC were you filming in?
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Thanks Stephen !

We´ve been filming the whole movie around the area of Revelstoke. It was the last remaining helicopter logging operation in Canada due to the economic crisis. Beautiful place indeed !

Frank
 
Jon Bingham said:
Beautiful,

Did you use cards or drive ssd/hdd?
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Hi Jon,

thanks !

We used the RedDrive mostly, with ET shock mount. It was the right choice for documentary work with long takes. For aerial shots we used the 16GB Red CF cards, it was obviously too shaky for the drives, had a couple of dropped frames during testing, even with the ET mount. When the camera was mounted to or used inside logging trucks, we also went with lighter configurations and CF cards.

Frank
 
Thanks for the reply.

Revelstoke is a great place to Snowboard I have some friends out there, looks like a great place in the summer too. I'm looking forward to seeing the movie it sounds interesting and looks great.
 
first shot looks like a painting... great. mind sharing a larger version of that still?

Thanks.

later,
jason
 
S.Matthews said:
Thanks for the reply.

Revelstoke is a great place to Snowboard I have some friends out there, looks like a great place in the summer too. I'm looking forward to seeing the movie it sounds interesting and looks great.
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Yes, we´ve been told it´s great there in winter. I like the place very much. Shot another film in BC in the area around Hope in 2004, called "The curse for the Indian gold". That was the Raincost Mountains. Also fantastic. Hope to come back to Canada soon...
 
Jason Ramsey said:
first shot looks like a painting... great. mind sharing a larger version of that still?

Thanks.

later,
jason
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Hi Jason,

thanks ! Could try that tomorrow. But there´s always compression. How big do you want it to be ? And how big it´s allowed here ??

Frank
 
Really stunning shots Frank.

I really bet you enjoyed that BEER by the time they were pouring them.

David
 
Thank you so much Frank for sharing these superb shots. A visual delight. Would love to know if a dvd is made so we can access it from Oz. Also any workflow info (on location backup) info would be much appreciated. Gorgeous stuff :hurray:
 
James Press said:
Thank you so much Frank for sharing these superb shots. A visual delight. Would love to know if a dvd is made so we can access it from Oz. Also any workflow info (on location backup) info would be much appreciated. Gorgeous stuff :hurray:
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Well, thank you James for your kind words !

I can´t tell you right now if an official DVD is planned, that depends totally on the network´s decisions. We´ll see after the first airing on October, 10th.

Concerning your workflow questions:

We shot mostly with the RED drive and ET mount, this was appropriate for we had lots of stuff we couldn´t direct and had to catch what we could get which resulted in longer takes and lots of footage. Aerial shots were being made with CF cards, also everything that required a lighter setup for the RED like shots on board of the Logging trucks etc.

Field backup of the drive wasn´t possible, spots for a save setup of a Macbook Pro and drives did not exist in the wilderness. We did backups on three separate drives later in the house we rented for the production. CF cards (had 16 of them) were being saved to three redundant Nexto drives right after shooting in the field. Those were then being saved to redundant harddrives each evening.

All the footage was loaded into RedCine after backup and checked before drives and cards were reformatted the next day. The performance of the Macbook with RedCine was poor, nothing real time, but it was ok to see what we had.

We traveled back to Germany with our footage on three drives, hoping they were not harmed in any way by the traveling and they weren´t. They even survived the safety checks at the airports. All the files were being transcoded to 1080p 4:2:2 then on two 8 core Macs using Cineform Remaster in our studio. Editing and grading was made using FCP6/Kona3 on Mac 8 core. Mastering to tape was HDcam and a downconverted Digibeta for SD

Frank
 
James Press said:
Thanks Frank. All makes sense (and gee, getting those drives intact to Germany must have been a relief!). Reminds me of Dylan Macleod's piece on mining (http://www.csc.ca/news/default.asp?aID=1354). Again, beautiful material.
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Yeah, it was. There was no way getting those security guys at the airport into not checking the case with the drives with their x-ray machine. Luckily, it really was safe.

Saw Dylan´s film, too. Nice work !

Frank
 
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