Peter Reynolds

Thanks Michael. Looks like it will be a challenge all around but I confident with my team. I'll be sure to post the results. Have a great weekend. Peter P.S. Any recomendations for lighting "up-close-and-personal" with our actor's eyeball?

Thanks again David. Your post was a veritable cornucopia of useful information. I'll pass along your recommendations to our DP, and post any questions he may have. I agree that it makes sense to go with a zoom lens, it's just a question of cost at this point. Rental houses (at least here in Toronto) like to charge a small fortune for them. We're going to try a test on Monday. I see about posting the results on this forum. Have a great weekend. Peter

Thanks David. I am familiar with "First Contact" and you're right, it's exactly the look I'm going for. I had considered taking a high resolution digital photo of the actors eye (which can be zoomed digitally) and then matching it to a standard camera move from the eye to the face. Our compositor should be able to do this. Quick question. If I wanted to dolly from a close up of the face (say the eye with some nose) to a head-to-toe shot. What kind of lens would you recommend? Also, how far would I have to dolly out to? Thanks again for the feedback. Best, Peter

Thanks Adam. Just to be clear, you're suggesting no camera move at all. We would just shoot the actor speaking (in close up) and have the move done as a digital "zoom" by our compositor? Would the image hold up under that much zoom? We'd be starting from a full shot of the face and zooming to the black of the actor's iris. I'm not that familiar with the resolution of 35mm, so I'm interested to know if it would work. I look forward to your response. Best, Peter P.S. Just so you know, the film will ultimately be transfered to HDCam for editing.

Hi there. We're shooting a short fantasy film, and there's an FX shot that's proving to be a challenge. In this scene our actor is talking about the universe, which is represented on screen as blackness with a few stars. We then want to transitition to the actor's iris and pull out from the iris to a full shot of the actor's face. My DP and I figure that the move from the iris (full frame) to a medium shot of the actors face can't be done in one move. We'd love to get anyone's thoughts on how to get this effect and what gear (lenses, diopters, etc) we would need to accomplish it. Can it be done in one move? Do we need to do an FX morph between two moves? We'll most likely be shooting with an Arriflex BL4 with a green screen backdrop. Thanks in advance. Best, Peter