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REDUSER'S own Dylan Macleod, wins CSC Award!!

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Just so everyone knows, Dylan Macleod, CSC won on Saturday Night the
THEATRICAL FEATURE CINEMATOGRAPHY AWARD for Civic Duty (Landslide Pictures/Sepia Films/Twentieth Century Fox)

Congratulations Dylan!
 
Videodisc said:
Way to go Dylan

Were you working with Red at the time?
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Nope.

The film had 2 DI's the first one to get it ready for the Tribeca Film Festival, then miramax picked up the film at the festival and it was recut and re-DI'd 6 months later.
If memory servers me correctly it was 16mm xfered to D5. Cut in FCP, onlined on our Avid DS Nitris we exported the reels as dpx files on to some hard drives which went to Das Werks Vancouver where Jan their colourist graded it on a baselight 4. Then off to Cinebyte in Toronto for the film out and off to the festival.

Second time around it was still onlined on a DS Nitris but it then went to an in house DS assist station and was graded by Dermot and Eva at Sepia films, film out again at Cinebyte in Toronto.
A real nice job around. :nerd:
 
Seán_T said:
Nope.

The film had 2 DI's the first one to get it ready for the Tribeca Film Festival, then miramax picked up the film at the festival and it was recut and re-DI'd 6 months later.
If memory servers me correctly it was 16mm xfered to D5. Cut in FCP, onlined on our Avid DS Nitris we exported the reels as dpx files on to some hard drives which went to Das Werks Vancouver where Jan their colourist graded it on a baselight 4. Then off to Cinebyte in Toronto for the film out and off to the festival.

Second time around it was still onlined on a DS Nitris but it then went to an in house DS assist station and was graded by Dermot and Eva at Sepia films, film out again at Cinebyte in Toronto.
A real nice job around. :nerd:
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Hey Gang

Thanks for the Kudos

Wow Sean, you nailed the long story of post. Shot Super16. Arri SR3 and an A-minima as B-Cam. Bolex as C-cam. Kodak 200T pushed a stop.

I would have shot with a RED if it was available. It is exactly films like this that I bought the RED for.

Much appreciated!

Thanks JDB for posting!

Dylan Macleod
Cinematographer
Toronto, Canada
www.dylanmacleod.com
 
Congratulations Dylan, I am going to Netflix to get it now. Your approach to the film has me very excited... I love my little bolex (circa. 1958).

Cheers,

Andrew

***edit*** I just watched the preview on netflix... this film looks great, I just bumped it up my queue to number one. Thanks guys.
 
Andrew Benz said:
Congratulations Dylan, I am going to Netflix to get it now. Your approach to the film has me very excited... I love my little bolex (circa. 1958).

Cheers,

Andrew

***edit*** I just watched the preview on netflix... this film looks great, I just bumped it up my queue to number one. Thanks guys.
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Ain't nothing like handcranking a bolex!

Can that be a RED request? A handcrank feature...oh wait, the Kinetta is supposed to be offering that?

Dylan Macleod
Cinematographer
Toronto, Canada
www.dylanmacleod.com
 
your work is great D, keep it up, the world needs more DP's with your mad style and skillz. :)
 
obin said:
your work is great D, keep it up, the world needs more DP's with your mad style and skillz. :)
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Thanks Obin!

...and also thanks to crewpix for the rewind key that allowed us to hand crank the bolex!

are you working on one for the RED?

Dylan Macleod
Cinematographer
Toronto, Canada
www.dylanmacleod.com
 
dmacleod said:
Ain't nothing like handcranking a bolex!

Can that be a RED request? A handcrank feature...oh wait, the Kinetta is supposed to be offering that?

Dylan Macleod
Cinematographer
Toronto, Canada
www.dylanmacleod.com
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It's funny that you mention that Dylan... I had the same thought and went to Kinetta's site last night. I downloaded the kinetta pdf and really enjoyed Jeff's camera design all over again. Plus I love the military surplus, bullet proof design.

Once again, congratulations and I hope to have the movie by this weekend to watch.

Cheers,

Andrew

CrewPix, you were not kidding...:) . The film looks great. Very excited to see it.
 
D, how do you get work with such solid concepts? all ad agency work or?
 
obin said:
D, how do you get work with such solid concepts? all ad agency work or?
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The stuff that ends up on the reel is 1 in 20. For every great spot there are twenty other mediocre ones. Actually 1 in 20 is a good average! Yes, pretty much all ad agency work. Except the Heinneken spot. That was a spec spot shot in about 4hrs. All "available light".

Also, I have a good agent.

http://www.seslercompany.com

10 years of developing relationships in the commercial world yields better opportunities.

What is difficult is doing a feature, then coming back to the commercial world. People tend to pigeonhole. "Oh, I thought you were doing features now...?"

So now, just to mix things up, it looks like Crewpix and I are on a 'round the world documentary with two RED's. It is for projection at Science Centres, so it looks like a full 4K post work flow with color correction on a baselight!

Will keep you posted.

Let me know what you think of CD Andrew. I have had mixed feedback about the photographic style! I almost didn't submit it to these awards...go figure.

Dylan Macleod
Cinematographer
Toronto, Canada
www.dylanmacleod.com
 
No problem Dylan, usually the work that I have mixed feelings about tend to connect with others in ways that I was unsure about... but of course I am nowhere near you level of skill sets, though very happy to be in a great situation to get better, make mistakes, learn and repeat. (My backgroud is in news photography, sports, wildlife, docs and regional/national commercials. The more I learn, bench mark others works, read and perform, the more I realize what a beautiful lifelong journey is ahead of me).

Dylan, will you and Crew Pix be using SIModified Reds for your round the world Documentary. If so, I would love to hear more about your interaction with that system. I am very excited by Sim Videos products, their intuitive design for the operator and the ease of use /adjustment while operating and light weight aks is too much to pass up.

Thanks again for the responses and I always learn something new.
 
Andrew Benz said:
Dylan, will you and Crew Pix be using SIModified Reds for your round the world Documentary. If so, I would love to hear more about your interaction with that system.
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We certainly will be. Sim has already helped us out a great deal (and offered us a great rental deal as well). I suspect we will be the first to put all of their stuff through some heavy-duty testing.

I will report in whenever we have Internet access.
 
CrewPix.com said:
We certainly will be. Sim has already helped us out a great deal (and offered us a great rental deal as well). I suspect we will be the first to put all of their stuff through some heavy-duty testing.

I will report in whenever we have Internet access.
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Thats all I had to hear... thank you very much CrewPix. I have been waiting on pins and needles to make purchases but patience prevailed for once.

One other great feature with the SIM train of thought are those wicked SWIT batteries that split in two for safe air transport... this would have to be huge for you guys since you are globetrotting and regulations tend to get interpreted differently depending on the mood and machinations of the airport personnel. Other than buying from SWIT (s-8170 not sure off hand if they are the A or S designate-- sorry), offhand do you know of any other vendors.

Here is a link to the batteries... (who knew one could so excited by batteries)

http://www.swit-battery.eu/swit-neu/Frame00-Neu.html

I really look forward to hearing from you both... if you are ever in Little Rock you have a nice Loft to chill out in...

Thanks again Gentleman. No more off topic from me... cheers again to Dylan for the award and Crewpix for all the help.

Andrew
 
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