Commercials shot of Anthony Dod Mantle on Epic.

[Björn Benckert]

Here are some commercials that I did the post for. Directed by Henrik Hallgren and Produced by Henrik Ericsson (both from Henrik Henrik Film Stockholm) for DDB Amsterdam. DOP was Anthony Dod Mantle who I discovered used pretty much all resolution settings of the epic kind of like a "digital zoom". Basically he had no fear of slipping down to 2k if he quickly wanted to get a tighter shot than the lens at hand could acquire. Something I found quite interesting since in full HD some of the shots looks a bit soft but in PAL 720x576 (which is the broadcast format here in europe) the difference in between shots is actually not an issue. The films where done in different title versions for pretty much all of europe...

My involvement in this? Slapping on, I do not know how many, different language texts / price tags and some sky replacement and other retouch stuff.

 

[Miltos Pilalitos]

Nice concept and nice grade!

I am not sure about the not-able-to-see-the-softness-on-576p thing though.

 

[Kenny Mosher]

Very nice!

 

[Sanjin Jukic]

Dod Mantle is a Dogme guy and do not slave to any sort convectional thinking when he wants to acquire an image.

Because of that he is well awarded cinematographer that even has got an Oscar with his rebellion artistic approach.

Seems to me that works.

 

[Mark Whatmore]

Great stuff - he's an amazing DP and it's nice to know that he make the most of the camera and does so with boldness.

 

[Nick Morrison]

Look great

 

[Björn Benckert]

It was great to see his source footage. Camera is never still, it's constantly moving and panning and tilting. Still pretty much every shot / frame is usable. But I guess thats how it is if you got an oscar for "shooting from the hip"

 

[Vigen Vartanov]

Very sunny grade . Like it .