"Bloody Mary: A nightmare Collaboration by Mark Harris and Timur Civan"

OK you guys Gearing up for our last hurrah shoot. The pre-cut looks Great, i am convincced that mark is my new favorite editor. Even after this fest im hiring him to cut everythign i do. hes clean precise and efficent. the guy is great.
 
Yeah, gearing up. I just went and bought a costume piece I'd bought before, and returned, thinking we were done with it. D'oh!

But yeah, psyched. After tomorrow, we have all the footage. Then by Sunday, I will have the edit timing locked, and we can proceed with Color correcting, and the amazing score Herman's cooking up for us.
 
THis is something i wrote up for marks other movie thread. But the laws still apply to Bloody Mary. ITs about The Workflow with the 35 Adapter. Enjoy:

Actually i have worked with three 35mm adapters. Sgpro, Brevis35, Letus 35a, and the soon to be released Go35.

The Sgpro, Go35, and brevis recieving my top nod in terms of performance.

The Sgpro i have needs some work however. the Achromat is not quite up to par for the quality im looking for because of the fact that my SGpro is a Hybrid model, some thing like a tricked out honda, while technichally as fast as a real sports car, it has its limitations. The Sgpro Hybrid i have has all the SGpro parts with exception of the Achromat. And thats its weak point. but this goes only for my specific copy. I actually have the Very First "Sgpro". I am retro fitting it with a Redrock M2 HD achromat. it will then be unstopable.

AS far as work flow, i really now rely on a Production monitor, and my tried and tested lenses. My favorite being a 55mm F1.2 Canon FD. This is the Jewel of my Lens collection, follwoed very quickly by a Quirky, vingeting, low quality 17-28mm Wide Zoom, that i have fallen in love with. i love its warm organic and visually stunning charachteristics. Immedialtly after this i Trust my 24mm F2.8 CAnon FD, as my stock lens of choice. I love its image charachteristics. Sharp, but still capable of shallow DOF, and wide enough to see everythign and help you compose Visually interesting composition, but without any added lens articfacts ot the image, like barrel distortion or chorma abbrasion, or worse, resolution losss at the corners.

I ahve been shooting Photos since i was 13, and using manual focus SLR type CAnon AE1 Program, running FD lenses. the lenses are second nature to me, and each one has a personality, some like being pushed hard in some situations and others fall apart under certian lighting conditions. My 55m F1.2 gives me the best performance though all its Fstop ranges, and is also the brightest lens you can get for under 1000$.

There were many siuation where i have beeen shooting with candle light though my F1.2, and the SGpro ( which is one of the lowest in light loss) with the DVX at full wide and the Shuter at 1/33 a second. ( FYI set your synchroscan to 1/33 for lowlight, it gives you an extra half stop, and still preserves the motion cadence accuratly.) and still managed to get a VERY reasonable and natural looking picture. its dark, but it looks like candle light with good sharpness and color reproduction. thanks to both the SGpro's secret GG material, which provides a STUNNING trandslation of colors, to the CCD's and the Canon Glass which gives color a natural, yet somewhat nosstalgic look. Similar to the color pallete of Napoleon Dynamite. thats what i think Canon glass looks like. very muted, but very accurate.

The work flow is sometimes complicated, as i am often dolleying Focus pulling, and controling exposure, all while looking at a Monitor Upside down. But for the quality of the image, its all worth it. Look at Manhole IV. this was my first Serious foray in to workign exclusivly with 35mm lenses on DV. I hav made other projects using it but non this laden with it.

Mark harris and i's next project, for Horror fest, is shot EXCLUSIVLY on 35mm adapter, however under the proper conditions. this is careful lighting, proper motivated camera movement, and An extreme attention to detail when it comes to composition and the artistic quality of the Film.

All the work i have put into the visual elements of this Horror fest will hopefully reflect and grow upon the work i provided for my friend JAck daniel Stanley on Bonehand. I ahve grown as a DP, and hopefully it will show thourgh.
 
Hey TimurCivan, I enjoyed your info above on the 35mm adapter. I just purchased on that I could afford and that was available... the Ed35mm 1.5 (courtesy of Edweirdo). I love that I now have an adapter and look forward to using it. I know that I will learn more as I experiment and play with it but i was just wondering if you had any other info in this site concerning the use of 35 adapters.

The Ed 1.5 is a static adapter and the one that I really want to own one day is the RedRock M2.

BTW, were you the DP Bone Hand? I loved that film!

Thanks again for the info! Many of us appreciate it!!!
 
desperatecomfort said:
A couple new grabs. Still no cc or post.

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Well the only things you can say about these grabs are.........WOW! They rock! :shocked:
 
Yeah, here are a couple of grabs from today's shoot. We shot the last little bit we needed today:

Time comes out to just about 5:50. Whew! :)

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Ha ha! This was a shot I added to the shot list as a "nice to have," but MAN am I glad we did it!!!!!
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Wow, nice work guys. Those grabs look really sweet. That last one is a really beautiful shot. Love the Mary in an arch of light image.
 
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