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Steven Soderbergh...

International Film School said:
Just took delivery of a RED ONE camera today.

First film school in Australia to own one.

Gotta say: THAT'S THE SPIRIT

That's why we do this.
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Thats great news...just make sure you let the students have a play with it from time to time...I know it will be difficult but try!

In all seriousness its good to see some foresight in a film school for a change.
 
Inspiring words & thoughts, Jim!

Really something that make me think about myself and the way I live, respond to people and so on. I totally got the point with what you are saying.

We all should remind ourselfs every single moment how happy we can be with what we are, what we have, what we can do with our lifetime. Anythings else just adds up to this. And take everything in live as a new challenge, a new chance. Really nice philosophy.

I guess I gotta run home, kiss my wife and the kids, have a drink and relax a bit about all this.

I'll try to keep all my future posts in that context :)
Remind me I may forget that at some point...

Keep on suprising us (and yourself)...

Axel
 
This was an awesome post. I have always been knocked out by Soderbergh's work, the chances he takes and the incredible range he has. He is truly a visionary. Once I was offered two jobs after a long stint of job hunting. One was working as a camera assistant on Soderbergh's K Street series for HBO, the other was teaching digital filmmaking to high schoolers. I chose the latter and have no regrets, but I always wish I could have worked with my favorite director.

Anyway, something that keeps gnawing at me: Being a visual artist turned filmmaker, my experience with art history is proof that the majority of folks will suspect or despise whatever disrupts the status quo. If most of the people who have Van Gogh books on their coffee tables were when he was painting they would have scorned his work.

As filmmakers and as camera makers (I assume), vision, resourcefulness and audacity are your greatest tools. Had the folks at Red settled for mediocrity, we might be talking about the Red as the "DVX Killer." In my opinion, these geniuses have bent over backwards and then some to create cinematic history, or better, affordable cinematic history. I feel it is our job as filmmakers to return the favor and try to meet them halfway, not to complain that the Red, Scarlet or Epic doesn't meet our (previously unknown) standards. I mean, I have no idea how I will afford the camera I want, but you can be damn sure I will figure it out and do the folks at Red proud. It excites me to no end to know that soon I will have the power to make images that I never would have been able to achieve had it not been for Red. Cheers everyone!
 
IF I were a CEO of Canon/Panasonic and/or Sony AND after reading Jannard's Post about SS... I would seriously consider a campaign to have my staff personnel consider how they can improve the needs for their customers (who have needlessly "begged" for years to deliver a camera with the quality similar to RED). BTW, I am seriously glad they did not! You snooze you loose. Since I was around when Neil Armstrong set foot on the MOON, little did I know we were all about to be treated to another "once in a life time" event. The Birth and growth of RED/Scarlet/Epic is worth being alive to witness; and to actually participate in this Forum - AND have a company that will progressively listen to the needs of the consumer - is worthy of HIGH PRAISE for RED and their staff. I am not surprised re: Jannard's post. This is evident of why a professional like SS and Peter Jackson give nothing but positive praise for/and use the RED cameras. They (SS/PJ) know (like us), it is only a matter of time. You rock Jannard ... and I cannot wait to get my hands on a Scarlet!!
 
Great insight on life. It honestly did make me sit back and realize that, no matter what we are caught up in, at least we are moving forward and that should be motivation enough.

Good call, Jim. Thanks for sharing.
 
Hi Jim,

I had to reply to this letter coz it's about the true spirit of filmmaking...clint eastwood would say: if you want to talk, talk and if you want to shoot shoot...and that's my philosophy too...I beleive in beeing on set and doing and not whining about this and that feature thats missing...sure technoology is nicee and is getting better day by day...but as long as we use for creating something meaningful or just something sexy...needless to say I'd love to have the new scarlett but in the meantime I will shoot the crap out of my sony ex-1 and my letus adapter with my manual nikon lenses and have a blast...basically my final thoughts...just do it
 
any other Directors in other PLACES TO SPEAK " vOLUME " ?

sc
 
It is not the critic who counts: not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself for a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat.

Theodore Roosevelt
Sorbonne, Paris, April 23, 1910
 
Managed to catch the Che double bill yesterday in London. Absolutely loved both movies - well, need to see them at least once more having read some background to actually understand everything fully, but testament to the film-making, I was never bored at all - and that was me stuck on my arse for nigh on 5 hours!
I thought the picture looked amazing. I loved the clean look of digital, but without the flatness/blandness I've seen in other digital projections. The only thing I wish now is that we could get some cinemas projecting at 4k - I've only seen 2k digital projections, and you can certainly tell the res isn't high enough some of the time. Bring on that RED 4k projector hehe...when you have some free time that is!
Fantastic work - can't wait to get my hands on a Scarlet!
 
I'm hopefully going to see it tomorrow, although I don't think they are showing it in Digital Presentation which is a shame. They are having a Q&A with Peter Morgan (writer of Frost/Nixon so I'm guessing that will be in the screen with the digital projector...as there is only one in Cardiff. Can't wait to see it though.
 
It's expanding this coming weekend as well I believe.
 
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