Rupe Whiteman

... A stunning film and one when you've seen it you'll never forget... Very poetic, brutal, shocking, and full of many truths... I'd urge anyone here to get a copy of it...

This Hd feature was Dop'd and operated by me in December 2007 and has finally got an initial release in the North West. I thought it was never going to see the light of day so am pleased people are going to get to see it at last - it's my first, and only, feature to date. Basically it's a modern day Ealing comedy set in a scrapyard in recession hit Liverpool. It's got a great cast of British character actors, many from a cult series called Pheonix Nights, The Office, Cold Feet etc. It was shot for a very modest £200k and we really had to think on our feet. I saw a press screening at Cannes 2 years ago and was overall pleased with my work, though a couple of new scenes had been shot by a 2nd unit who I would have liked to have an input on but that's another story... I shot on an F900r with digi-primes and used sfx and classic soft filtrations. Focus pullers Dan Gadd, Steve Gardner, Clapper loader Danny Mendietta. There's a trailer and behind the scenes film at the website: http://www.northstarproductions.co.uk

... not sure what you mean Phil... this film doesn't glorify the war - it's more about the emotion and endurance of the (very) young pilots who fought then. And it's based on a very powerful memoir. Perhaps you may have watched it... Main unit was a 750 with adaptor to reduce the stop with Zeiss Primes. Dop was Mark Wolf, Focus Puller Gordon Segrove.

.... Please take a look. I did 2nd unit duties (on a 7D with Zeiss primes) on this drama-doc as part of BBC'S Battle of Britain series. 'On at 9pm on BBC and runs for 80 mins... http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00ttjz0

'seen the trailer too and it leaves me pretty non-plussed... cgi cgi cgi...

... Looks interesting Max... good luck with it. Rupe

Casper Leaver, who shoots a lot of the car test/exterior stuff, has posted on here before, you should be able to get hold of his details to 'mail him your questions...

thanks... on the tech recce for this scene we'd planned to put the lights in various places and had talked about the coverage. On the day the director decided to change how it played, and ultimately it made for a much better scene, in the blocking, lights and coverage...

Hi anyone... - There's a few clips of this feature I Dop'd up on my site. Please take a look. The files are from an avid cut and don't show the final quality but give a good guide. The producer is dealing with a distributor at the moment so hopefully it'll get some kind of release soon... (hopefully before I go grey!..) click on: http://www.rupewhiteman.com/home.html Cheers.

'Just seen it and was a bit underwhelmed. Is it Bond or Bourne? 'Not sure that the producers quite know themselves... and the plot was a bit dull and convoluted... Very crisply shot, as I'd expect, but again for me nothing really stood out. Title seq. and theme both poor...

have you tried calumet?

... you're pretty quick to jump to conclusions - you only started the thread yesterday mate... And maybe they might be busy working?! Me? - 'Afraid I can't comment as I haven't seen it yet. 'Like the look of what I've seen though...

... I've got a new website up... there are a few clips... http://www.rupewhiteman.com/home.html

Mevlan... tried to pm you my website link which includes clips from a feature I've recently shot... http://www.rupewhiteman.com/home.html but your inbox was full! Regards, Rupe

... just watching the trailers puts me off... looks pretty hokey... I'll save my money.

... a biggish china ball is great as an ambient fill and can be rigged easier due to it's light-weight but as others have mentioned the light is less controllable than kino' units and after a bit of handling on a busy set they do tend to fall apart... I often prefer to bounce a biggish hmi/tungsten for an ambient light as it's flaggable/controllable then augment it with kinos etc as key-lights. But Kino themselves have their limitations because of their lack of punch too... It's all swings and 'roundabouts...

... line crossing can be a really complicated issue depending on the scene... it's straight-forward to control in a two-hander, but when you've got multiple characters it can be a bit of a challenge and you've got to keep on top of your coverage and directions to actors with their eyelines, and of course the camera angle. If you want to cross the line it's often best when you make bigger jumps between framing sizes or use movement in a shot to fool the viewers eye'. Watch how Kubrick does it - with bold cuts and framing sizes etc. ... On reality tv the line is often crossed but it's more down to poor coverage than a creative decision...

... I always thought it was a bit sad that the director of 'Get Carter' ended up doing tosh like Flash Gordon...

... thanks for the advice... I think I'd better make the clips smaller to be safe... ... Walter... I do have permission to use the clips I'd be stupid not too...

... thanks for the links Adam... interesting to see more of Jess Hall's work as I liked the way Hot Fuzz was shot... Claudio Miranda's site is worth a look at too!..

I'm in the processing of doing a web-site via my mac on I-web. I've got a few clips from a feature I've shot which I want to use. The (m4v) files vary from 8 to 40mb in size. Will these take eons for folks to download/stream? - Also is it best that they stream rather than are downloadable - as I'm a little (!) concerned about people downloaded copyrighted material... I don't want to piss off my producer!.. Any advice appreciated...

... It's a small World... what goes around comes around...

... I've worked out what I was doing wrong!.. the clip was being cropped when I moved it from the event library to the project library not when I tried to export the quicktime movie... problem solved...

Can you help?... I'm trying to mount some clips on to web pages. My original movie is a quicktime mp4 file in a 2.35:1 ratio. I've selected a couple of scenes to export from I-movie to I-web pages but when I do so it either crops the image to 16:9 or 4:3.... how do I preserve the original ratio and... any help on the (myriad of) quicktime/movie export settings from I-movie would be a great help too... Thanks.

... Nice story John... Nothing sad about it. Great to hear of his enthusiasm after so many years in this sometimes dumb business...