Edgar Dubrovskiy

Enter The Void has a very interesting in-to-the-mirror shot. So does La Haine - and they used very clever technique :)

Same. Felt like it was quite soft throughout as well...

Great reading, as always, David! Thank you.

Hi! Thanks for all your help, guys! What an amazing resource. Just recently updated my website - have stills gallery now, and more film examples. Please visit if you've got a minute and drop me a line of crtique. www.edgarmedia.co.uk Cheers!

Kind of did this on the shoot - but as the whole film was hand-held this proved to be extremely difficult to get any decent lensbaby-ish effect... :)

But that's kind of the queston - how do you check it? Apart from taking some standard sr2 and smashing the rolling shutter, while testing :)

How safe would it be to do something like this on Arricam SR3? I considered to do it on my last short - but we shot on a beach and constant sandstorms prooved it to be extremely risky. How bad is it for the camera/mirror/gate?

I would go for s16. Just came from a rushes viewing of the latest short - shot on a beach, hot sunny day, insane contrast ratios. And was, once again, blown away by what can this strip of gelatine do. Absolutely love shootig film. Shot Fuji 250D (overexposed by 1/3) for this show, processed as normal, tech grade to HDCAM and a copy of DVD for rushes. Haven't seen the HDCAMs yet, but DVDs were already enought to remind me of how beautiful shooting on film is.

In theory, in UK you will mainly work under the director, rather the DP. But this changes from shoot to shoot, thought. But theoretically you are under director, not DP in UK.

For those who also find the Kodak Motion website slightly confusing - here is the direct link: http://motion.kodak.com/US/en/motion/Products/Customer_Testimonials/Joaquin_Baca-Asay/index.htm

We had this problem on a student production last summer. 20 minutes long film, 16mm, 6:1 ratio we had :) crazy fun. 2 takes max, 3 if we saved a take before. So what we did, because of the budget (of course) - we telecined first roll from each camera (shot two cameras) and then telecined another couple rolls from a complex day (a lot of camera moves, lighting cues etc.) The rest of the rushes we saw only when we went for a tech grade to HD, a week after the shoot has wrapped. That was fun. And scary. Producer managed to get a free deal from one of the post houses, and they tech-graded all 12 rolls to HDCAM. Not the best solution regards quality, but at least this gave us an opportunity to shoot film. But everything was ok. So if you trust your meter, eyes, the crew and the camera - should be ok. Or doable, at least.

It's quite long, to be honest. I would say, half shorter would be perfect.

I guess, you are talking about the 'Children of Men' 8 minutes long car sequence?

Looks good! Would love to see a trailer/teaser of some sorts. What uni are you at?

If you plan to use your 7D mainly as a video tool, I would strongly suggest considering to buy a tripod. $440 could get you some ok-ish video tripod. Hand-held style of shooting is not the strongest side of DSLRs. And maybe looking into buying 2x8gb instead of 1x16gb - could be annoying to loose/break a card and have no other back-up to shoot on.

There is a 3 minutes long blackness after the clip. Just thought, I'll let you know.

Hi guys - just a quick update, if anyone finds this useful. Data Rescue 3 managed to restore all the clips - worked perfectly. Took about 2 and a half hours (2 to scan, and about half an hour to restore 3gb of data). It seems that the combination of the computer and a bad card reader had triggered the problem - because as soon as I've connected the card to my mac using a new card reader, mac showed the usual 5D folders to be present on the card, where the mac on the shoot showed the card to be absolutely empty or not recognizing the card at all. So here it is. Safe! :)

http://philipbloom.net/2010/03/16/how-to-export-and-upload-235-video-to-vimeo/

Thanks Adrian, will do. What bothers me - I still don't get what exactly made the mac to freeze when the card was plugged in (according to the loader)...

Just out of curiosity - did you DP the western one as well?

Rental package was coming with 2x 16gb cards for some reason. And then the producer provided this cursed 8gb :)

Buy one of Ebay, read it, sell it, buy the other one.

Behind-the-scenes on the DVD explains how they did it in details. As well as gives some comments on the DP-swap situation.

Hello hello! Was DPing a music video yesterday - shooting 5D. 2x 16gb cards, 1x 8gb card (both SanDisk Extreme). At some point, clapper/loader came to me and told that one of the cards made the computer to freeze - and nothing could be done and it had to re-booted. After re-booting, it stopped recognizing the card (saw it as an empty and 4gb, not 8gb for some reason). However, 5D showed that there is some footage on it (not in a playback mode - that showed "No image", but when you go into Format menu - again, showed that the card is 4gb and is almost full - which seems to be correct, as clapper/loader estimated about 3gb of footage to be on it). We used the 8gb once on that shoot - to shoot a frame-leader - and it worked for that upload in the morning. Then it was formatted in camera, footage was shot, and the incident described above happened. Before and after the incident - both 16gb cards were absolutely fine and worked on the camera and on the mac. Any ideas on how to recover the footage (plans are to use Data Rescue 3 - will see how that works out, luckily footage on the card is not that vital)? And what exactly might have happened - so to prevent from it happening agin? Cheers!

So good! Very Roy Andersson :)