Keith Mottram

my poop V+ thingy conked out halfway through the third one! aaaaahhhhh. will have to wait for dvd to finish the trilogy which overall I thought were fantastic. The scripts and acting were top notch as were pretty much all the tech departments. as for the best visually I'll agree with Stephen here that the first was my favourite- i didn't infact realise it was s16 till the night shoots turned into a grain fest. It was beautiful, atmospheric and the S16 held up really well on my plasma - hopefully they'll produce a Bluray so I can scrutinise it properly. Number two was not such a great film overall as the script was clearly trying to mash too much together into the one piece (not sure but maybe trying to get two books into one film?) also wasn't a fan of some of the framing but the lighting was great. Number 3... what a disapointment- I had hoped that they'd go anamorphic but instead Red with Vantage Blue filtres... not blaming the DP but the Vantage Blue looked naff and worse than I'd seen them on other pics. they were heavilly used and seemed to extenuate the Red's shortcomings- pasty skins, flat image and bizaarly perceptively less resolution than the first S16 one! Surprised there is not that much talk on these boards as this was the best British crime TV in... well... ever?

30p only, lag on live view, no dof control when using canon lenses. etc etc. i'm sure all has been discussed on this forum already.

if i remember the article correctly they were used on car mounts/ awkward places rather than for specific scenes/.

presumedly by removing all zac's hackneyed slow-mos!

i'd do the effect whislt shooting a black card, then you could screen it onto any footage you liked.

Dont mean to point out the bleedin' obvious but apart from scanning the film at 4k everything else on test would be a digital upres. Also it seams a tad pointless comparing 35mm with a handycam- the best your going to hope for is "wow it looks not to bad in comparison", if you don't know that already then you really shouldn't be doing camera tests in the first place. Now a D21, F35, 35mm all with master primes would be a useful test, unless this for wedding video manufacturers...

I'm afraid there is no quick fix for this. To do it properly is a frame by frame job, cloning one clean part of frame to another. Time consuming and if you do it at a post house very expensive.

been a long time since i used a BM card (had too many problems with them in the past), but I would check your BM control panel which is either in system preferences or in the aplication folder i think. hope this helps. -------------- after i posted this your reply popped up. for future reference what was it stephen?

record with the h4, try and use the same mikes on all recording and record plenty of wildtrack.

or you could just use a digislate.

Never took you as a closet Kelly Clarkson fan Phil...

This was a rubbish film with some terribly trite cinematography- that scene where they storm some nazi place guns a blazin' with cheasy frame/ shutter effects ugh. The majority was plain dull, never sure whether to be epic or melodramatic it settled for a confused middle ground- and that could be said for the whole of the film as well as the cinematography. And what was going on with ze ackzents. Daniel Craig should never be allowed to try one as he is incapable of holding one for an entire sentence. The russian soldiers came out of the same timber yard as the cast of a daytime soap and why did all the well fed Jewish tree dwellars seem like extras from a woody allen movie. Not as daft as blood diamond, but still if you are attempting to make these kind of thought provoking films you should at least attempt to make them vaguely accurate. I must admit I did stop watching about two thirds of the way through- I am beginning to think that life is too short for Ed Zwick films.

think that was shot on S35, Slawomir Idziak is great creating a scope feel in S35- think of the epic quality he gave to a gritty pic like Black Hawk Down.

Maya for 3d, after effects for 2D (unless you are talking about more cartoon led animation, in which case toon boom studio)

a few quick clips are up on their site now, and although it is hard to gleam much information from compressed qt's the footage does look nice. The use of raw seems to have paid off in both the daylight interior (lots of white) and in the night time driving scene. The overall impression is of a digital 16mm which is I guess what they're going for! And this in itself isn't a bad thing as it should be a great camera for an intimate drama or doco. I am keeping a close eye on this camera and hoping that they can work with p+s on an optical viewfinder.

I would like to know how the makes achieved this parts handcranked look. ---------- I absolutely loathed the 'vintage look' bits, they were so old fashioned looking- and i dont mean that they actually looked old fashioned in real terms, i mean in fx terms. they were dreadful and completely took me out of the picture grammatically speaking. why did those bits have a naff flicker on them and not other parts of the story which were very close in time scale. and if they really wanted a psuedo vintage film look why not shoot on film with an old camera- afterall tarsem's bits were shot on film. it was a real shame, but if you want to create that look ask any kid with a copy of after effects.

i tried very hard to remember fight scenes that were as bad and then i remembered the time when i was too stoned to turn of ultraviolet when i 'accidentally' channel hopped onto it earlier this year...

watched it on dvd again over christmas with my parents, who thought it was a bit pants, as for me it only got worse on the second viewing and i doubt whether i'll ever give it a third. also watched casino royal with them, fun watching pictures like that with 60 odd year old ex cinefiles. everyone enjoyed bond. popcorn movies can and should be fun- and should not out stay their welcome by about an hour as is the case with the bloated boring batman. btw if he can pop over to hong kong for the sake of a bit of drug money cant he go and do something genuinely useful like sort out the middle east etc etc...

Sorry for being a bit of a twat, but i get irritated when global warming is treated as a new idea. I studied it at school nearly twenty years ago. Gore's film wasn't perfect but something needed to kick the debate up the agenda. I can understand a sceptics point of view... in the same way I can understand that people genuinely believe in creationism. Okay one is way more idiotic than the other, but I personally believe that your statement that there is "Just no logical science to validate it' is bollocks. Greenpeace

What's a dockumentary? And was your degree sponsored by Exxon? Oh and by the way there is a rumour going round that the earth is flat do you have any scientific knowledge that clarify this...

I thought the simple way to do it was to take the r3d proxies run them through compressor (or log and transfer), edit those qts, send edl to one of those redthingy programmes (redalert? redcine?) export 2K dpx files, import those into color alongside a cut list from final cut. would this not work?

this is the only real reason to use esata on a laptop.

Hi this is misleading. you cannot run uncompressed HD on anything less than a decent raid. true you can raid a load of drives together via an esata connection, but not on a macbook. i have a esata card for my macbook and it is fine for accessing drives with esata ports but it is slower than firewire 800. this is a fact. esata is only faster when working with a series of drives raided and if you are going to raid a load of drives together then you will not be in the realms of portability, so raided drives should be kept to a tower system.

I dont see why a film studio is more interesting than spittlefields and honestly phil if you are bored of london you are bored of life... my recomendations after the usual (ie tate britain, tate modern, london eye etc) is get a copy of time out and go and find some things londoners would do- check out some fringe theatre, eat at a fantastic restaurant, go to a burlesque show, get a boat down the thames to greenwich and have a walk through the park and take in the navel college, grab a curry in brick lane, watch some comedy, go to a club. i mean for **(obscenity removed)**s sake london is the most exiting city in the world!

Hi Syrous, Any chance of Dalsa making it across the pond? Would love to shoot a short on it, but think it might be quite expensive to recreate dirty London locations in LA! Also do you have any plans for anamorphic options with the evolution? thanks for getting involved with the forum, all the best, Keith