Interview Magazine! : Tendance Brute

[Ryan De Franco]

A few months ago, director Maria Burns approached me with an idea for a short film... how does raw unvarnished talent become "beauty.... and now our little film ended up on the home page of Interview Magazine. Thanks to incredible support from B2Pro, Bunker Media, Prime Pictures: Brent Langton, Ruy Sanchez Blanco, Alex Haessner, Jared Roessler, Sam Maliszewski, James Jolly and our incredible crew.

This could not have been made without their expertise. And it could not have been shot on anything but Red DSMC.

One Scarlet, one Epic. Filmed, edited, and graded at B2Pro.

Looking forward to any and all opinions. Now that it's done I'd love some good old criticism!

 

[Bob Gundu]

Loved every frame. Slick edit which also worked well with the score. Kudos to all involved.

 

[Nick Morrison]

Fucking amazing. Ryan, you killed it. Loved the theme (she's three different "monsters", unboxed). How it all comes full circle. I love the edit. Well cut, to music. I love how you shot it. Playing with white, and black. Playing with POV (sometimes we observe from the side, sometimes we are stared down). I love the surprises (the cup). I love how we are attacked form every side of the frame. Up/down/left/right.

Best fashion film of the past 12months on Reduser. They should pay you $1,000,000 to shoot more of these.

 

[Bob Gundu]

What was the lighting setups?

 

[Daniel Pearson]

Spectacular photography and editing, really engaging.

 

[Ryan De Franco]

Nick you're way too nice, thanks man. Someone chime in with some hard critique here!

Bob, you're very right, we are in great debt to the composer William Shore and editor Sam Maliszewski. Their work brought it all together.

We're forgetting someone important... the film would be an empty cyc without Agnes! Every take she gave us was incredible.

(light: a few 5K tungsten, umbrellas, and a little dedo action here and there.)

 

[paul engstrom]

Fantastic. Very well executed. Well acted, well captured, well finished. What a great short!

 

[Bob Gundu]

Hey Ryan. Since you used tungsten lighting, any chance we could get an R3D frame to play with. It will be nice to test some LUTs on some properly exposed tungsten clips. Probably unlikely but I thought I'd ask!

 

[Ryan De Franco]

The noise was very clean under tungsten lamps dimmed a good 40-60% at times, on both Scarlet and Epic. Matched perfectly. Expose right and tungsten light is a dream on Red. Any noise you see here was a light EXR film emulation added after the grade.

I have some R3D from the Monochrome Epic that I would love to share, let me make sure it's ok to do so. Gotta edit the whole monochrome film first.

 

[Brendan Burdzinski]

Captivating, I really enjoyed this!

 

[Ryan De Franco]

Thanks Brendan, I think that is very much due to Agnes and Maria, they made something incredible happen we moved some cameras and lights around