Skyline on BluRay shot with Mysterium-X sensor with much at ISO 2000

[Les C.]

I recently watched Skyline (great special effects, less than great dialog) and listened to the director's comments.

Really quite a good job for their first shot at producing, writing, running the entire show.

They used a RED One with the Mysterium-X sensor and shot much of it at ISO 2000.

There are some closeups in a restaurant in available light that look really good.

With the new circuitry in the Scarlet, I'd expect it will look even better.

Here's a podcast on the making of Sykline.

http://www.fxguide.com/fxpodcasts/Skyline/

They were able to cut way back on the production costs of the movie because of the reduced need for lighting, generators, etc. Even resulted in a reduction of their catering costs.

 

[Andy White]

You know the Strause Brothers run their own VFX shop - and have worked on a ton of shows... plus they co-directed AVP back in 2007?

 

[Les C.]

Yes, the podcast talks about how 'two guys in a garage' beat out a much larger company for the VFX contract for a movie, I think back in 95 - so they've been at this a long time.

They did the great special effects for the 'Battle Los Angeles' and a host of other movies over the years. Very talented guys!

The VFX in Skyline were fantastic. I think they shot it for $1 million and it was a $10 million movie after the special effects, etc. were done. With 98% of it shot literally in their condos.

The podcast and the director's commentary are very interesting - and the movie, if only to see what a Scarlet could do in low light, is interesting.

The podcast gets into the special lenses and effects they created, much of it in-camera. They really seem to know a lot about lenses and equipment.