28 Days Later - an inspiration, and a question

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banksie312

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well im sure there is another thread about this but let me say I am quite inspired by seeing this shot completely on DV, namely the XL1s. There were some shots that were unbelievable and i can't imagine shooting on the xl1s. I really just want to go out and shoot a movie!

anyway, this drew a question. when watching the special features i noticed a difference. it looked as if the frame rate jumped in the special features. i know it was shot PAL and probably in 25p, so was it then converted to 24p for the feature? i would imagine it was, and then for the special features they took the raw material and didnt bother converting. anyone want to shed some light on this?
 
Deleted scenes tend to show up untouched in special features section. My best guess would be for economic reasons. It's probably just cheaper and easier to slap the raw materials straight from the NLE onto the DVD. 28 Days Later was also completed in 2002, and it's a professional film, so I would imagine it was handled by various companies, from the 24p conversion, to the color grading, to the film-out, etc. I'm not sure the software to accomplish the conversion and grading and what have you was as accessible then as it is today. I'm not stating this as fact though, it's just speculation, so I could be wrong. That's just my best guess.

And for the record, the film isn't 100% DV. There's one portion shot on Super 8mm, and the last scene was shot on 35mm, according to Danny Boyle on the commentary. You should give that track a listen sometime, it's a pretty good commentary track.
 
Yeah, it's a little misleading as even though it was shot with a $4000 camera, it was lit with a half a million dollar lighting package and an awesome DP who knew his sh*t. Those guys could make home video look amazing.
 
Same story with Cloverfield.

It goes to show what you can do with the cameras - but it requires a little more than just the camera to do the work.
 
yeah i actually knew that about the 35mm but not the super8. you could tell that last shot was shot on film, it was just phenomenal looking. i played it a few times haha.
but mostly the inspiration was taken from the fact that, like cg eads said, its not the camera, but the people behind it. i just know that some people, me especially, can get caught up in the technology and not what really matter, making movies.

thanks for the links and stuff guys
 
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