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Rediscovering RED

Steve Gibby said:
By the shooting style Jay described, you made a good guess on who his mystery hybrid shooter might be - and your guess is correct!

I spent a great three days with Jay and his staff at his studio near St. Louis, and out in a beautiful forest, as we shot the new Hybrid RED module for his RED 101 DVD. Jay understands really well each style of field production with RED. I simply reminded him of some very cool lightweight (thus mobile) setups of RED that free us up to get unusual images. - and we documented it in a fun and interesting module, including some samples of my hybrid RED footage.

You can find a new library of my lightweight hybrid RED footage by visiting my RED footage collection on Artbeats:

Link: http://www.artbeats.com/footage/search?fh44=1

I shot all of my Artbeats RED footage hybrid style with a crew of one (me!), hiking or pedaling my mountain bike and small bike trailer into the locations, using lightweight hybrid RED setups - using 35mm stills lenses exclusively (mostly Nikon, but some Canon), no matte box (screw-on filters), no follow focus (hand racking lens), eye focusing using 1:1 magnification, exposing using just zebras and histogram, Miller 55 head, Miller Solo 1505 CF legs, and a cine saddle where needed.

When I produce, direct, DP, or shoot for large productions, its with a large crew - but when I'm not doing that you can find me out by myself shooting footage like what I shot for my Artbeats RED collection.

RED One can easily be a 1-person camera...if you open your mind to the possibilities, and develop the skills to shoot by yourself. You simply grab your lightweight RED rig and go out and get some images - just for the love of shooting.

Jay, thank you for a great production experience in St. Louis! I was way happy I spent my time to help you out on this. I think everyone who views your RED 101 DVD will be stoked with the production values and information the entire DVD contains - and adding a Hybrid RED module was a great choice, because it will really open viewer's minds to some alternate possibilities with RED One.
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hehehe....the whole time I was reading Jay's post I was thinking "that sounds like Gibby!"

Great advice...it was definitely empowering for a less experienced shooter such as myself to see that one can produce great images / content on Red with what many might call a stripped down set up.

Jay, can't wait to get your DVD when it is available.

Omar
 
You guessed right Omar :)

Glad you liked the info - yes, with practice you can generate excellent images with RED One all by yourself - with no other crew.

I think you'll really dig Jay's DVD. Fortunately Jay covered the normal cine style production setups and techniques, but he also profiled EFP/Hybrid style setups and production with RED - something basically all other RED workshops and and books have failed to do. :thumbdown:
 
hahaha

Last time I was shooting on my own I had over 600kg of gear, fully kitted R1, including programmable motion control, Ronford Atlas 150mm head, set of MPs, ...., portable Honda genie,... on a remote piece of rock in the middle of the southern ocean for over a week (that is after losing my 1AC who managed 3 weeks there before he got rescued).

Toughen up, boyz. :001_tt2:
 
LOL - if you can get good images with a small, lightweight kit, then you don't have to carry all that stuff out there. Hmmm...come to think of it, if you were on an island in the Southern Ocean that means you wimped out and floated all those heavy camera kit items out there on a boat - unless of course you swam all the way towing a barge behind you! Actually...it sounds like you probably missed the boat!

If you had an AC with you in the first place you weren't doing mobile hybrid production anyway - we don't use an AC in hybrid - though occasionally we might use a PA :)

When you go way out in the bush by yourself, personally carrying all your kit (sorry, no AC or PA), get some good images and then hike back out, you begin to understand mobile hybrid production.

Not a single kit item you mentioned, except the RED One body itself, would be found in a mobile hybrid RED kit. But to each their own Pawel - carry on Mate :thumbsup:
 
What I wouldn't do for a really bright, really light 3" RED LCD and a super lightweight shotgun mic setup. :)

-michael zaletel
 
I hear ya Michael - those are things most of us would like to see available for Epic and Scarlet . I've seen renders of a new, small LCD, but if there have been renders of a super lightweight shotgun mic setup, I missed them.

Its going to be fun seeing the finalization of the tech specs for Epic and Scarlet - and what accessories are available :)
 
Steve Gibby said:
if you can get good images with a small, lightweight kit, then you don't have to carry all that stuff out there....
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LOL. Now you are telling me! :001_rolleyes:

OK, so I did carry all of it and, on the previous trip, the landing wasn't particularly graceful (overturned the Zodiac with all the gear in it). But, more fun than a zoo.:biggrin:
 
Frank Weeks said:
Well Jay and Steve. You have me thinking light. You make some great points.

Can you tell us a good place to buy screw on filters?
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Thanks Frank! I just try to keep an open mind and approach each shooting occasion (and portion thereof) asking myself:

"What lenses and accessories are absolutely essential to getting the quality of shots I want - with a minimal amount of of bulk and weight?"

Once I've thought through that, I pack the accessories and lenses I'll need, and head out to have some fun!

The added bonus is that when you shoot a lot of hybrid solo, you really get to know your camera and kit items well - which comes in way handy when you work on larger crew productions, whether you're producing, directing, DP, or shooting on those larger productions. Sure, on larger productions there may be accessories used that you don't use in hybrid solo work (MB, FF, etc.), but you're still way familiar with the very heart of any RED camera setup, the camera itself.

The timeworn mantra is "Practice makes perfect"

I've bought most of my screw-on filters from B&H, but there are many other online options. I've also bought a few of my screw-on filters by simply walking into a photography store - especially common size filters (77mm, etc.). I usually stick with good quality multi-coated filters unless they're going in an internal filter tray on my longer lenses, then single coated have been fine.
 
So will this have a Blu-Ray release as well?
Or on a website I would rather buy a downloadable HD file that I can
play in a PS3 or WD player.
 
Because of the nature of the DVD an online download is tough, but I do think it's possible in the future.. For now I have to stick with a 2 disc set:
We just realized we're at over 3 hours of material..

Yikes

No Blu-Ray for now. A download will happen, but because the program is "non-linear" I'll have to figure some things out

Jay
 
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