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First Red "Jumbotron" Ad in Vegas.

Evin Grant

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First the press release stuff...
Client: Koi Restaurants
Prod. Co.: Solid/Base Station
Director: Thom Blackburn
Director of Photography: Evin Grant
Red Ninja: Brook Willard
Red#81 (Sam Druckerman's)

This was the element shoot for a pretty sexy ad for the new Koi resturant going into the new Planet Hollywood hotel on the vegas strip. It will play on the big jumbotron outside the casino, as well as other places around the hotel and casino. This shoot was done mostly at 2K 75FPS using Zeiss T2.1 standard speed 35mm lenses, some elements were shot in 4K 23.98. We used the side rails to mount the camera vertically for about half the shooting so the portrait elements had the most res for compositing. Worked like a charm.
We hope to have a cut to show in a week or so. For now here are some choice QTs and a few of the rig shots.

http://www.redninjas.net/koi1.mov
http://www.redninjas.net/koi2.mov
http://www.redninjas.net/koi3.mov

RedSide.jpg

Natalia.jpg

Rene.jpg

ReneV2.jpg
 
Damn, scale that 2K down!

For those that can't tell from the pictures, we mounted the camera sideways by putting a base plate [1030s] on two side handles butted up next to each other.

We had both the RED LCD and Evin's 8.5" Panasonic monitor onboard. We used the LCD for navigating menus and checking exposure with the false color meter and the Panasonic for operating. The Panasonic was used for operating because when the RED LCD is enabled, the HD-SDI and HDMI outputs are currently disabled. This will be fixed with a software update for the camera in the future, but for today, operating with the Panasonic on HD-SDI and the client monitor on HDMI did the trick.

Lighting was a 2K Blonde Chimera and a funny 1K Chimera [does that light have a name?] in a sea of black.

The models were... err... talented as usual.
 
Evin, I'm getting a SERVER NOT FOUND message when I click on your links

Tracy
 
The funny 1k...do you mean the new birdcage chimera?
 
Brook Willard said:
Nah, but those things are groovy.

It was basically a speed ring with a medium screw socket in the middle and a baby receiver.
Click to expand...

Oh, you mean the lantern mogul socket but with the mogul to e26 adaptor?
 
Hmm... next time I'll try to remember to bring my little point 'n shoot.

This one was pretty easy. There were 4 or 5 20x20 solids and a 12x20 solid making the whole world black around camera and talent. Talent was on a heavy-as-hell spinning platform.

The lighting was buried in a tube of flops and flags to keep it very controlled and directional.

Camera was on Evin's Indie Dolly. We only did one dolly shot - it was basically just an easy way for us to move the camera on axis for the rest of the day.
 
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Sorry Shawn, too late for that. It was basically 4 10x20' solids on T-Bones another 12'x on the ground and a medium Chimera w/2K Blond and the small Chimera with the 1K Mogul arranged in a broad vertical strip light and controlled by 4x floppys and flags. We tried grids too but that was too much, the flags worked fine. We exposed most scenes at T2.8 ISO 320 72FPS 180º shutter.

Sanjin, refresh your page the links work now.
 
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