Hrishikesh Jha Posted September 12, 2015 Share Posted September 12, 2015 http://www.amazon.com/Canon-XL1-Digital-Camcorder-Kit/dp/B000050FA5 With a 500 dollar camera? That is all??? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andrej Vasiljev Posted September 12, 2015 Share Posted September 12, 2015 Good movie all the same. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jose luis villar Posted September 12, 2015 Share Posted September 12, 2015 It was shot with a Canon XL1 mini dv, real garbage on a large screen. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Premium Member Adrian Sierkowski Posted September 12, 2015 Premium Member Share Posted September 12, 2015 It also cost a lot more when it came out-- and if memory served they PL mounted it-- though I could be wrong-- but yes, it was. And even then people said it was the death of film... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Premium Member Tyler Purcell Posted September 12, 2015 Premium Member Share Posted September 12, 2015 They sure did! Too bad the film looks like absolute garbage. They only used digital because they couldn't afford to rent 10 film cameras to do the coverage necessary for the big scenes. I personally think that excuse is crap, but meh what do I know. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JD Hartman Posted September 12, 2015 Share Posted September 12, 2015 http://www.amazon.com/Canon-XL1-Digital-Camcorder-Kit/dp/B000050FA5 With a 500 dollar camera? That is all??? That's the current price for a used XL-1. What was the price when it was new and relatively "state of the art"? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Premium Member Tyler Purcell Posted September 12, 2015 Premium Member Share Posted September 12, 2015 The XL-1S was never a great camera. It used low resolution (270,000 pixel) imagers which were locked into interlaced scanning, so the camera was notorious for horrible interlacing and being very grainy even in the 30P mode. Canon did make an XL-2 which did 24p and had better quality imagers, but that was after 28 days later was made. But yea, you'd be hard pressed to pay any money for a used LX-1S in todays market. Even the VERY exceptional Panasonic DVX100A, sells for a few hundred bux used and it blows the doors off anything Canon made during the DV days. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Premium Member Adrian Sierkowski Posted September 12, 2015 Premium Member Share Posted September 12, 2015 I believe the XL1 was around $3000USD or so when it came out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JD Hartman Posted September 12, 2015 Share Posted September 12, 2015 (edited) http://www.amazon.com/Canon-XL1-Digital-Camcorder-Kit/dp/B000050FA5 With a 500 dollar camera? That is all??? I believe the XL1 was around $3000USD or so when it came out. Seriously, for most when the camera was new, not exactly pocket change for the indie filmmaker. Edited September 12, 2015 by JD Hartman Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Hines Posted September 13, 2015 Share Posted September 13, 2015 I still remember drooling over the XL-1 and GL-2 back in the day when I was using a sony Digital8 camera. Seeing 28 Days Later in theaters when it came out, I don't recall thinking anything of the image quality. Looking back at it now, yes, the quality is shite, but that may very well be because we've become accustomed to super high resolution imagery everywhere. In my opinion, it served the story, helping to create a bleak and distorted world. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stuart Brereton Posted September 13, 2015 Share Posted September 13, 2015 I believe the final scenes of the film were shot in 35mm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Premium Member Adrian Sierkowski Posted September 13, 2015 Premium Member Share Posted September 13, 2015 I never saw 28D in theaters; but when I did see it on DVD, I personally didn't mind the use of the XL. Sure, it wasn't a great piece of cinema style- but certainly not unwatchable for the time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Hines Posted September 13, 2015 Share Posted September 13, 2015 I saw it the day it came out (of course some super-responsible parents brought a baby and sat right behind me...) and recall being impressed with the visual style of the film. At the time, I didn't know much about formats or cinematography as a whole, all I knew was that I liked it. Quality and resolution aside, Anthony Dod Mantle made some bold choices on that film, it definitely wouldn't have been as good with a DP that wasn't as willing to take risks. It also helped to have an original member of Dogma 95 at the helm of the visual department. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian Drysdale Posted September 13, 2015 Share Posted September 13, 2015 Here's a link to an article on "28 days later" in American Cinematographer. The reasons for shooting on Mini DV are discussed, needless to say, there was also work done in post.. http://www.theasc.com/magazine/july03/sub/index.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Premium Member Adrian Sierkowski Posted September 13, 2015 Premium Member Share Posted September 13, 2015 You know I often always wonder why they didn't do 28days as the did 28 weeks, on S16mm-- though granted of course for some days you'd generally need a better op than a gaffer/producer as they mentioned in the ASC writeup, but I find it hard to believe they couldn't have had a few folks there ready to roll with deep enough DoF to not need ACs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andrej Vasiljev Posted September 13, 2015 Share Posted September 13, 2015 @Brian Drysdale - Thanks for the link, this article explains a lot about why and how Dod Mantle shot and edited 28DL. Cool stuff. They had an idea and they stuck with it. I can only imagine what they would have done nowadays with 8 RED cameras. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian Drysdale Posted September 13, 2015 Share Posted September 13, 2015 Given the restrictions I don;t think they'd be using RED cameras, they're basically the same as 35mm in operating and set up terms Andrj, please noyte that you have to use your full real name, it's one of the forum rukes. You'll have to contact Tim Tyler, the site's owner, to make the change. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Premium Member Tyler Purcell Posted September 13, 2015 Premium Member Share Posted September 13, 2015 You know I often always wonder why they didn't do 28days as the did 28 weeks, on S16mm-- though granted of course for some days you'd generally need a better op than a gaffer/producer as they mentioned in the ASC writeup, but I find it hard to believe they couldn't have had a few folks there ready to roll with deep enough DoF to not need ACs. In the documentary "Side By Side", Danny Boyle explained the decision was purely his interest in doing something different with smaller, more portable cameras. He said they looked at those bigger apocalyptic shots of London where they could only close down streets for a matter of minutes and realized video was going to be a lot easier. Plus, he felt the digital cameras ability to shoot dark scenes was better then the film stocks at the time. So he did have his reasons and they were logical. However if it were my film I would have shot all those scenes in 16mm and single camera stuff in 35 because there are no gains to shooting video when you're running one camera and have an 8 million dollar budget. The cost of stock, processing, transfer, camera rental, etc… it's not even 2% of the budget. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Premium Member Adrian Sierkowski Posted September 14, 2015 Premium Member Share Posted September 14, 2015 Those were the '18 days of Kodak, and the '29 '79 so I don't personally think digital, least of all miniDV had much of a gain. Also they apparently shot it at 320. Though there is something to be said about doing something different. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Freya Black Posted September 15, 2015 Share Posted September 15, 2015 (edited) At the time a lot of big film directors felt left out while indie filmakers were exploring the possibilities of DV. They wanted to have a go too which may seem silly now that shooting digital is so common but.... I think in the case of 28 days later the video sort of works because it is a zombie movie and it makes things more gritty. It might have helped differentiate it a bit more from the original too. Freya Edited September 15, 2015 by Freya Black Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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