Michael Shu
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Visual Communications accepted me as one of 10 filmmakers to create a film to be shown at the Los Angeles Asian Pacific American Film Festival in May. Guess which one had one of the freshest Scarlet-X's around? #0066 "Rockwell" goes on its first run into the narrative territory. Check it out at work!
http://www.onyxcinema.com/2012/03/30/unmentionables-behind-the-scenes/
The Scarlet was built in simple configurations mostly for lockdown and light handheld work. A combination of red rock micro and zacuto pieces were used to create a rig we were comfortable with, so it was a bit of a "Franken-rig". DP Andy Chen and 1st AC Nick Bianchi combined the use of the Touch Screen and an old Marshall monitor to pull focus with. With such a small rig it was tricky connecting all the accessories onto it sometimes.
The EF mount gave us a plethora of lens choices for the nano-budget shoot. We rented zeiss primes as well as grabbed lenses from the set photographers.
Having experience with both Epic and Scarlet, I have to say that the Scarlet exhibited the least technical glitches. There was perhaps a single startup glitch out of all the 5 shoot days. I was really impressed.
As much as I love the framerate features of the Epic, the little Scarlet really kicks ass for all kinds of productions.
http://www.onyxcinema.com/2012/03/30/unmentionables-behind-the-scenes/
The Scarlet was built in simple configurations mostly for lockdown and light handheld work. A combination of red rock micro and zacuto pieces were used to create a rig we were comfortable with, so it was a bit of a "Franken-rig". DP Andy Chen and 1st AC Nick Bianchi combined the use of the Touch Screen and an old Marshall monitor to pull focus with. With such a small rig it was tricky connecting all the accessories onto it sometimes.
The EF mount gave us a plethora of lens choices for the nano-budget shoot. We rented zeiss primes as well as grabbed lenses from the set photographers.
Having experience with both Epic and Scarlet, I have to say that the Scarlet exhibited the least technical glitches. There was perhaps a single startup glitch out of all the 5 shoot days. I was really impressed.
As much as I love the framerate features of the Epic, the little Scarlet really kicks ass for all kinds of productions.