Mars United
03-30-2007, 10:10 PM
The project I have been working on with the SI-2K Mini for the last few weeks is called Blood: A Butcher's Tale. It stars Battlestar Galactica's "Chief", played by Aaron Douglas. We are in mid production, so I'm pretty tired, but I just got leave to talk about it so, here I am.
The film is shot mostly on green screen, though there are some CG elements as well as real sets. It is a vampire movie, with a very stylized look, which will attempt to create a comic book sort of look like ... well, I'll leave it at that. I'm privy to some of the ideas, but we'll see what the effects guy comes up with in the end. By the way, he has a team of 40 people that will be working on the keying of the miniatures and CG. I can hardly wait until it is out of post. 4 - 6 months, I would guess.
We have had so many visitors on set to see the SI-2K Mini in action, and I've likely found more work for it.
I must say that Silicon Imaging has been most supportive. We've had a few issues to work through (don't run a 75 foot VGA cable from your laptop's video card!!!), but SI is always fast to respond to our questions. So, props to them.
It should be noted that the camera hasn't failed us once. We were down momentarily due to a faulty power cable and the above-mentioned VGA cable lesson, but we have never missed a take or recorded bad data. Beautiful.
We hope to have some stills/frame grabs posted soon, as well as provide some movie clips.
I'm so glad I bought this camera. I still want an HVX200, and wherever I turn I see them in use and they rock, but this is simply a different class altogether.
Cheers :beer:
Chris.
The film is shot mostly on green screen, though there are some CG elements as well as real sets. It is a vampire movie, with a very stylized look, which will attempt to create a comic book sort of look like ... well, I'll leave it at that. I'm privy to some of the ideas, but we'll see what the effects guy comes up with in the end. By the way, he has a team of 40 people that will be working on the keying of the miniatures and CG. I can hardly wait until it is out of post. 4 - 6 months, I would guess.
We have had so many visitors on set to see the SI-2K Mini in action, and I've likely found more work for it.
I must say that Silicon Imaging has been most supportive. We've had a few issues to work through (don't run a 75 foot VGA cable from your laptop's video card!!!), but SI is always fast to respond to our questions. So, props to them.
It should be noted that the camera hasn't failed us once. We were down momentarily due to a faulty power cable and the above-mentioned VGA cable lesson, but we have never missed a take or recorded bad data. Beautiful.
We hope to have some stills/frame grabs posted soon, as well as provide some movie clips.
I'm so glad I bought this camera. I still want an HVX200, and wherever I turn I see them in use and they rock, but this is simply a different class altogether.
Cheers :beer:
Chris.