Sony EX1
I'm shooting all over Europe this summer with the Sony EX1.
The title of the film is The Red Tandem. You can find out more about the production here.
We shot some in LA before we departed for London. The LA shoots gave me a chande to experiment with the camera a bit. The director David Gibbons and I also had to work out how to get the look of the movie with this little camera. We did tests in advance of production, of course, but we needed a couple of easy shoots to determine a working method that would work for us for the rest of the shoot.
Part of the look of the movie was figuring out how to achieve a kind of stability of the image yet keep it playful, youthful, somewhat naive, yet keep a feature quality image integrity. We settle on a kind of hybrid feature, verite style. I added the idea of shooting time lapse photography to convey a sense of playfulness. We tried to establish frames and let the action happen in the frame.
Another element of the prodiction was that we needed to shoot in vehicles a lot. I started out shooting this material handheld. Then I tried stablizing the camera with the back of the front passenger seat. Yesterday, as we left London, I settled on mounting the camera on a tripod situated between the passenger and driver's seats.
I'll talk more about the look as we mover forward.
So far we've shot in London and entering Paris. I'm in Paris right now on my day off.
I have to write these entries in the lobby plus I'm stil a little burnt out from the shoot. I'll try to write more later.
The title of the film is The Red Tandem. You can find out more about the production here.
We shot some in LA before we departed for London. The LA shoots gave me a chande to experiment with the camera a bit. The director David Gibbons and I also had to work out how to get the look of the movie with this little camera. We did tests in advance of production, of course, but we needed a couple of easy shoots to determine a working method that would work for us for the rest of the shoot.
Part of the look of the movie was figuring out how to achieve a kind of stability of the image yet keep it playful, youthful, somewhat naive, yet keep a feature quality image integrity. We settle on a kind of hybrid feature, verite style. I added the idea of shooting time lapse photography to convey a sense of playfulness. We tried to establish frames and let the action happen in the frame.
Another element of the prodiction was that we needed to shoot in vehicles a lot. I started out shooting this material handheld. Then I tried stablizing the camera with the back of the front passenger seat. Yesterday, as we left London, I settled on mounting the camera on a tripod situated between the passenger and driver's seats.
I'll talk more about the look as we mover forward.
So far we've shot in London and entering Paris. I'm in Paris right now on my day off.
I have to write these entries in the lobby plus I'm stil a little burnt out from the shoot. I'll try to write more later.