…and a golden underwear trophy. Awesome. Tonight “Meltdown” won big at the Box[ur]Shorts film festival (see the blurb on their website). The festival’s awards screening took place at the New Beverly Cinema and was attended by a by a packed house. It was an awesome night and all the films in the top ten were so impressive – great company to keep. A million thanks to the festival coordinators for putting on a wonderful event and thank you to the sponsors for a wonderful gift basket and the free booze. Yeah us!
Me, David (director) and Ryan (producer) and the golden undies.
2010 is shaping up wonderfully. The feature I shot late last year is nearly completed with picture lock a couple of weeks away. Today, we shot a few FX shots of the new grim reaper for the trailer and it looks absolutely fantastic. I can’t wait to share the trailer which should be done in a few weeks also.
We had planned on shooting on the Panasonic HVX200 but it produced too much noise and compression artifacting to be useful. I took along my Canon 5D Mark II to shoot behind the scenes but ended up shooting the plates with that. We were all surprised by the improved image quality of the camera in video mode and were able to overlook the annoyance of the 30fps frame rate. Best of all was when we shot full frame stills as image sequences. Very clean keys from that. Our VFX supervisors will be taking those image sequences and apply a little frame interpolation in between frames as well as other hocus-pocus. The staccatoed motion is creepy and lends itself to what we’re trying to do with the character. It’ll be a huge improvement to the film. It’ll be fun when it’s all done.
Splice Magazine interviewed me on use the Red One camera. Splice is distributed in Canada aimed by The Filmpool Cooperative – a non-profit that encourages indie filmmaking in Saskatchewan.
I downloaded a couple of the back issues and it’s a very cool magazine that’s available in both a physical and PDF version. It’s got a great, almost hipster aesthetic and the information is very down-to-earth and useful. Can’t wait to get a physical copy of the magazine and share the article.
