Dragon arrives on "The Southwest" film

[Chad Lancaster]

Got my Dragon yesterday from Irvine. Thank you Jim, Jarred, my bomb squad rep Clark, RMA lady Stacey, and everyone else at Red. I really appreciate the hard work and dedication. Being able to shoot IMAX quality imagery on this tiny little thing is amazing. I'm off to shoot in Bodie ghost town on monday so I'll be sure to post some files when I get an internet connection.

 

[Rick Augustus]

AWESOME... Congratulations Chad. ENJOY!!!

 

[Ketch Rossi]

Congrats!

 

[Robert L. Mickles]

Very nice! Congrats!

 

[Chad Lancaster]

Here are some ADD extracts from our recent shoot for "The Southwest" film in Bodie CA. These are all ungraded, resized, and output to jpg. Sorry they are small...the internet here on the road in this crappy hotel is abysmal.

 

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[luigivaltulini]

BOOOM

congrats

 

[Chad Lancaster]

Mysterious woman of Morey. A couple months ago we were out in the middle of absolute nowhere nevada, filming at an old ghost town. I kept waiting for the eyes to follow me around the room haha

 

[Jon Carr]

Congrats on the upgrade! Can you tell us a little about the film?

 

[Jamon Lewis]

Congrats! Great, great looking stuff!

 

[Chad Lancaster]

Congrats on the upgrade! Can you tell us a little about the film?

The film is non narritive exploration of the American Southwest. Here's the full synopsis.
"The Southwest" film synopsis
More bts photos and stuff on the films facebook page

It's similar in nature to Baraka, Samsara, & Timescapes.

 

[Chad Lancaster]

Dragon killing it in the Bodie morgue

 

[Chad Lancaster]

I've been meaning to post some photos of our recent shoots. This last week we were out at the Tent City Jail in Phoenix. Thanks to Curt Pair and David Jones for running steadicam and 1st AC. A huge thank you to my sponsor Leica/CW-Sonderoptic for letting us use some Summicron-C, these are by far my favorite primes. Most of the portraits were shot on the 25mm or 35mm. Sorry for crummy laptop grade.

*this one has a lot of background detail but needs a better colorist than me to do their magic.

 

[Curt Pair]

The shots look great Chad! I don't find the 'grade' bad at all! You take that last shot into Resolve and in just a few quick minutes, it will be singing like crazy! Trust me!

What a fun project! Thanks for the opportunity! Can't wait to see this at an Imax theater!

 

[Chad Lancaster]

Some quick extracts of things we've shot over the last year or so. All are Dragon except that stained glass.

www.thesouthwestfilm.com

 

[Clark Dunbar]

Chad - the new preview frames look GREAT!

 

[Chad Lancaster]

Burning Man from above. Top image is Dragon

 

[Eamon Long]

Damn this stuff looks fantastic. Keep it up. Can't wait to see the first color-pass stuff.