shAi
05-28-2004, 04:51 AM
http://www.shailevy.com/miscmat/amores.jpg
only 2 days ago i watched the Mexican "Amores Perros" on TV (aka "Love's A Bitch"), which was the film that brought DoP Rodrigo Prieto the acknowledgment that lead to the following Frida, 8 Mile, 25th Hour, 21 grams; all great pieces of cinematography. the upcoming Oliver Stone's "Alexander" was also shot by him.
this film, as well as 21 grams, was directed by Alejandro González Iñárritu and i warmly recommend people from this board to check it out.
Prieto is a DoP of the crossover film-to-digital generation. he's one of the firsts to take full advantage of digital timing. digital timing replaces the traditional lab color grading, as we're heading to the digital era of cinematography. it becomes more and more common these days and recognized as an essential link within the craft of cinematography..
although it still costs alone like low budget film (~ $ 500,000), it's not so far away from what we simply call "color correction" ;) *
quite obvious that "Amores Perros" was the prototype style of the great looking "8 Mile". "Amores" has even more raw and crispy look than "8Mile", but one of the interesting things to see, is Prieto's style of hand-held operating, which i assume was self made in "Amores..", but most likely wasn't too in "8 Mile", (as i know that there it was a multi camera, with different operators involved). * *
"Amores Perros" was shot on 35 (Kodak Vision 800T) but looks as if it tried to imitate DV look.. :) as strange as it sounds. the burn outs come on a sharp knee and reminded me of our beloved dvx.. ;)
i was looking over the net for some materials regarding the cinematography of this film, but couldn't find them mentioning digital timing on this case, nevertheless, on TV / DVD it looks quite "processed", so i can only guess that the video version was digitally manipulated.
Q&A with Prieto:
http://www.kodak.com/US/en/motion/forum/onFilm/prietoQA.shtml
Prieto about 8Mile:
http://www.kodak.com/US/en/motion/newsletters/inCamera/jan2003/8mileP.shtml
* * *
only 2 days ago i watched the Mexican "Amores Perros" on TV (aka "Love's A Bitch"), which was the film that brought DoP Rodrigo Prieto the acknowledgment that lead to the following Frida, 8 Mile, 25th Hour, 21 grams; all great pieces of cinematography. the upcoming Oliver Stone's "Alexander" was also shot by him.
this film, as well as 21 grams, was directed by Alejandro González Iñárritu and i warmly recommend people from this board to check it out.
Prieto is a DoP of the crossover film-to-digital generation. he's one of the firsts to take full advantage of digital timing. digital timing replaces the traditional lab color grading, as we're heading to the digital era of cinematography. it becomes more and more common these days and recognized as an essential link within the craft of cinematography..
although it still costs alone like low budget film (~ $ 500,000), it's not so far away from what we simply call "color correction" ;) *
quite obvious that "Amores Perros" was the prototype style of the great looking "8 Mile". "Amores" has even more raw and crispy look than "8Mile", but one of the interesting things to see, is Prieto's style of hand-held operating, which i assume was self made in "Amores..", but most likely wasn't too in "8 Mile", (as i know that there it was a multi camera, with different operators involved). * *
"Amores Perros" was shot on 35 (Kodak Vision 800T) but looks as if it tried to imitate DV look.. :) as strange as it sounds. the burn outs come on a sharp knee and reminded me of our beloved dvx.. ;)
i was looking over the net for some materials regarding the cinematography of this film, but couldn't find them mentioning digital timing on this case, nevertheless, on TV / DVD it looks quite "processed", so i can only guess that the video version was digitally manipulated.
Q&A with Prieto:
http://www.kodak.com/US/en/motion/forum/onFilm/prietoQA.shtml
Prieto about 8Mile:
http://www.kodak.com/US/en/motion/newsletters/inCamera/jan2003/8mileP.shtml
* * *