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24 DP, Rodney Charters, & his Red experiences

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Hello

In a brand-new TV program going live today, Rodney Charters ASC, director of photography on hit TV series 24, talks exclusively to The Reel Show about his 18 months' experience with the Red One camera, from his initial evaluation of prototypes, through to his recent three-week tour of South East Asia and Europe, taking the full production kit with him as carry-on hand luggage.
In the 24-minute program, Rodney outlines the pros and cons of using the Red camera on a show such as 24, as opposed to shooting 35mm film. He also details his pick of the numerous lenses and custom-made accessories for the Red.

Click here to see the report: www.reel-show.tv/index.html?vidId=00074

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Denise
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Nice work Denise. It's great to see Rodney talking about traveling around with it like this because it shows that the camera can be versatile if you know how to configure it for the style of shooting you are doing.
 
PaulClements said:
I thought it was interesting that he does not see a use for a DIT.

Paul
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I suspect that's partially due to his Jack Bauer-taught survival skills.

Noah
 
Great to see Rodney's thoughts on the Red. Also nice to see the EOS Birger mount in action. Rodney has the exact set of lenses the I have for my EOS.

Why is Rodney saying that ISO 250 is the highest ISO available without noise? We have shot a lot of scenes at 500 ISO without problems on both of the features we shot this past summer. ISO 250 isn't even recommended by Red, they say either 320 or 500. Interesting.
 
Interesting that he said Red's custom-made 16GB CF cards use extra pins to get the extra through-put (which explains the need for the new CF module I presume)...didn't know that, you learn something new every day here.
 
HAHAHAHA! Man i can't wait for my camera, but holy smokes i didn't realize how big the viewfinder is. made me laugh
 
I saw Rodney Charters at the Apple store in Glendale a couple years back and he talked about working on 24 and how they were using FCP for some application. He had brought in one of the Panavision cameras that they used on the show and it was setup for handheld shooting. I couldn't believe how much that camera weighed and it didn't even have any film in it. Very cool guy though.

Its was kind of funny him saying that he doesn't see a use for a DIT on set. I don't know what the DITs he deals with do. But it kind of sounds like they either over step their bounds or something. Why would he have to run his exposure by the DIT. That's the job for the DP.
 
Drew599 said:
I saw Rodney Charters at the Apple store in Glendale a couple years back and he talked about working on 24 and how they were using FCP for some application. He had brought in one of the Panavision cameras that they used on the show and it was setup for handheld shooting. I couldn't believe how much that camera weighed and it didn't even have any film in it. Very cool guy though.

Its was kind of funny him saying that he doesn't see a use for a DIT on set. I don't know what the DITs he deals with do. But it kind of sounds like they either over step their bounds or something. Why would he have to run his exposure by the DIT. That's the job for the DP.
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Actually, the DIT in the traditional sense does have a lot of input about exposure and color. That's what he is talking about. With Red because of its RAW nature, the DP/operator can do a lot more at the camera level rather than depending on a DIT who is looking at waveforms/vectorscope and using a camera's paintbox.

Don't confuse DIT with data manager. They are two very different roles. I'm sure he would want a data manager on the set of 24.
 
Not to say a DIT can't be on a Red set. There is the function of lookup tables and such, so there still can be a need. But I think Rodney is indicating he doesn't want that person necessarily telling him how to expose.
 
Thanks guys, this was a particularly nice interview to do as Rodney is very easy going and really knows his stuff.

He talks a lot about his DIT views on a panel session we recorded with him at Cinegear 2007. He was on the panel with Geoff Boyle, who has since used Red cameras in his 3D movie Dark Country and is currently using them on a series of movies he is shooting in Sweden (also has pretty strong views), Tim Sassoon and Scott Billups. All seasoned cinematographers.

You can see this on the Reel Show features channel. You'll have to register for this one as I can't provide deep links at the moment (it's free and the worse thing that will happen if you register is that you'll receive update newsletters from me every few weeks).

I believe it's Question Time #1 - it's an hour long so when you have time...

We launched this site in May this year and are adding to it constantly. I'd appreciate your feedback and suggestions.

All the best

Denise
 
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