Varicam Projection at Tribeca Film Fest

[Frank Barrera]

I shot the feature RUNAWAY that is currently screening at Tribeca. Although I am satisfied with everyone's work on the movie the only question left in my mind was how will it look on a very large screen. The only HD I'd seen was COLLATERAL and SIN CITY. And they were 35 prints. And those pictures obviously had many more resources than us and shot with "better" cameras than we used.

 

Well, I am here to say that I was stunned at how well the picture looked. The resolution was near perfect. And aside from the hand full of clipped shots that I had no control over I would say that the lay person would never wonder whether this was shot on film or video. I don't know which projection system they used but I will find out and send the manufacturer some flowers. I can now talk to directors and producers with the full confidence that the Varicam is not just a beautiful piece of machinery but in the right hands (read: mine) it will deliever crisp projection worthy images.

 

Thank you Panasonic.

 

FB

[Christopher Bell]

Glad to hear it looked good. Any trailers available online?

 

Chris Bell

[Frank Barrera]

Glad to hear it looked good. Any trailers available online?

 

Chris Bell

 

 

No Trailer yet. No website even. They just finished the sound mix about four days before the screening. But there will be all that PR stuff real soon. I'll keep you posted.

 

FB

[John Ealer]

The digital projection at Tribeca was with DLP projectors from Digital Projection International, the biggest theaters had 2K projectors.

 

The feature that I shot at Tribeca, "The Mostly Unfabulous Social Life of Ethan Green," was shot with the SDX-900 and up res'ed to HD. Looked great. There were a few minor inconsistencies with calibration here and there, but nothing at all compared to all the other nightmare projection stories I've had at festivals. The folks at Tribeca did an amazing job.

 

J