Girlfriend Experience Screen Captures

[J. P. Sendall]

Hi

Just wanted to share some screen captures of Soderbergh's 'The Girlfriend Experience' with those interested in the look of the film. Shot entirely with available light except for two shots which Soderbergh say are his two least favourite shots of the movie. Don't know which those are but I think he describes them somewhere on the web. Perhaps somebody else could post those up.

I personally chose shots that I thought might prove to be difficult either in the level of light available or contrast where the highlights blow. On scene played with the characters deliberately out of focus until a point later where Sasha Grey is by herself when she comes into focus. Nice use of focus dictated by character and context I think. Anyway here they are at my flickr account as I wanted a larger frame than can be posted here and they are taken from a 720p bluray.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/bensoncostume/sets/72157623024031639/show/

A lot of the shots remind me of various movies from the 70's, the colour mostly. I thought of Taxi Driver and Klute while watching it.

 

[Roberto Lequeux]

You gotta wonder what this would have looked like on M-X. Available light will never be the same. I hope S.S. does a second available light feature.

 

[J. P. Sendall]

I'm pretty sure he will, between the bigger films that is.

 

[Tai Wah Lim]

Thanks JP for sharing - Lim

 

[David Guest]

@ J.P (from the interview in Filmmaker Magazine, Spring 2009) -

What about your approach to lighting? There are only two shots in the film where I pulled out a light.

Wow. Literally. And frankly I wish I hadn’t. They’re my two least favorite shots.

Can I ask what they are? There is the one scene in the restaurant where she meets with this manager that her accountant wants her to talk to, and there’s one shot near the end, after she’s come home from the weekend. She goes across the street and there’s a quick shot of her having a drink in a bar across the street. In both situations I added a little sort of red fill light, and I look at the movie now and I hate it. Literally, everything else was available light.

 

[jimhare]

Looks amazing! I imagine they have a first class color timer and all the time they wanted.

It's interesting. For any film other than my own, I will happily look past dull exposure, blown highlights, noise, or almost anything else. But if I see the slightest imperfection in my own footage I think it's ruined and I'm a failure! Guess I need to get over that and get back to story telling...

 

[C.H.Haskell]

Thanks for sharing...really like the look of some of these shots, specially the scope of them. Where can I see this film?

 

[Filip Orlandic]

Thanks for sharing...really like the look of some of these shots, specially the scope of them. Where can I see this film?

You have to buy it.

http://www.blu-ray.com/movies/The-Girlfriend-Experience-Blu-ray/5517/

 

[Ryan E. Walters]

Thanks for sharing these- it is great to see them in a higher resolution then what has been previously available on the web.

It would be interesting to find out what kind, and how much noise reduction was applied to these in post.

 

[Joel Jameson]

Thanks for sharing...really like the look of some of these shots, specially the scope of them. Where can I see this film?

Netflix has it as a DVD or instant stream, watched it last night.

 

[Joel Arvidsson]

Hi

Shoot entirely with available light except for two shots which Soderbergh say are his two least favourite shots of the movie.

Wow that looks so good. I think I should by this blueray to se how much of the noise thats visible.

 

[Jason Madeja]

you can rent it from itunes as well.

 

[Craig W. Bickerstaff]

you can rent it from itunes as well.

Too bad it's not on the NZL itunes store.

 

[Raphael Varandas]

Very NIcE thAnks for share...
SS knows whats he's doing, hehe
Viva la Vermelha
cheers,