Trailer for Act of Valor (feature film shot on 5D2, DP Shane Hurlbut ASC)

[Samuel H]

if you ask me, it looks ABSOLUTELY AMAZING
http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=85224

EDIT:
I should have said "new trailer", as there was a previous one out already; they share a lot of footage, but, for me, this one works a lot better

[jacob12_1993]

All I can say is wow

[dtjohns1]

I'm confused as to how much of the movie was shot on 5ds. On imdb the camera specs are

Camera
Arriflex 235, Panavision Primo Lenses
Arriflex 435, Panavision Primo Lenses
Canon EOS 5D Mark II, Panavision Primo, Canon L-Series and Zeiss ZF Lenses
Canon EOS 7D, Panavision Primo, Canon L-Series and Zeiss ZF Lenses
Canon EOS-1D Mark IV, Panavision Primo, Canon L-Series and Zeiss ZF Lenses

Even in the interviews they have about using the 5ds in the movie in different magazines and online blogs they are really vague about how much was shot on dslrs.

[Gary Huff]

Yeah, I'm wondering if now it's not just some POV stuff and specialty shots that would have been a pain to use the Arri for.

[Samuel H]

he had an interview some time ago stating that with the use of the 5D2 he had been able to cut the budget for the film from 147 million to 60 million, because of the reduced footprint (less lights, less equipment, less everything)
http://www.freshdv.com/2010/05/conve...o-hurlbut.html
(second video, min 15 onwards)

in order to get such big savings, at least the plan had to be to use the 5D2 extensively

edit: sorry, it seems that was a different project, the production budget for act of valor is estimated at $15 to $18 million
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Act_of_Valor
but watching the interview, I doubt the 5D2 was not the main camera for this movie (though maybe not in the most spectacular bits, which should be the ones found in the trailer: for sure, that ultra-slow motion explosion can't come from a 5D2)

[David G. Smith]

Yeah, I don't know how much of the final movie is going to be footage originated on the DSLRs. I would imagine relatively little, mostly confined to the action scenes. From the WSJ article below, it seems that there are several incarnations of the film, starting with a bunch of training footage that was put together to show to investors, which was probably mostly shot on the DSLRs. When they went to shoot the final film I bet they stuck with 35mm for the bulk of the film. My question is, when seeing the film in a theater, will the DSLR footage cut seamlessly with the stuff shot on 35mm?

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000...606172306.html

[David G. Smith]

Of course, you know when the film comes out, there are going to a plethora of threads on forums like this and in blogs all over the internet that will play the, "Guess the DSLR Shots" game.

[jacob12_1993]

All I can say is wow

I thought it was too good to be true :/

[dtjohns1]

Yeah, I don't know how much of the final movie is going to be footage originated on the DSLRs. I would imagine relatively little, mostly confined to the action scenes. From the WSJ article below, it seems that there are several incarnations of the film, starting with a bunch of training footage that was put together to show to investors, which was probably mostly shot on the DSLRs. When they went to shoot the final film I bet they stuck with 35mm for the bulk of the film. My question is, when seeing the film in a theater, will the DSLR footage cut seamlessly with the stuff shot on 35mm?

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000...606172306.html

The question of if it will cut seamlessly has be has been answered already from movies like Captain America, Black Swan, Iron Man 2, Drive, the upcoming movie Red Tails and plenty of others. While I think they will never be the front runner in huge films such as these, for the little specialty shots here and there they will work well. I think a quote from American Cinematographer Magazine about the use of the 5d in Drive somes up how Hollywood feels about DSLRs in serious films.

Sigel notes that he also “set up my [Canon EOS] 5D in a fixed-camera position to get more coverage. Every time I pulled out my 5D, it ended up being used, just because you can put that camera where you wouldn’t dare put an Alexa.” However, the cinematographer adds, “in prep, focus puller Nino Neuboeck and I tested the 5D, 7D and Iconix cameras, thinking they would come in handy for the car work, but the quality of the Alexa outdistanced the other cameras by so far, we kept them to an absolute minimum.”

[Samuel H]

Vincent Laforet says about 70% of the movie was shot on DSLRs
http://blog.vincentlaforet.com/2012/...ytelling-film/
I guess he was told so by Jacob Rosenberg