Blindness - Overexposure?

RyanT

RyanT

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Has anyone seen this film or seen anything about the details of shooting it?

If you haven't seen it, they seemed to use overexposure a lot to get us into this state of white blindness that the characters are all in. There were also a bunch of sort of unconventional iris pulls that weren't there to keep proper exposure, but to sort of heighten that frantic feeling that it was going for.

I don't know, I saw it last night and just thought it was such a great example of "breaking the rules".

Anybody else see it, or know anything about it? I can only guess they did a lot of camera tests before hand to nail down that look. That and maybe a whole bunch of pushed film.
 
Yeah, I'm wondering how much was actually done in production...I mean, purposely overexposing things on the set. :Drogar-Shock(DBG):
 
egyptianboxer104 said:
it's better to be overexposed while shooting than underexposed because it's something that can be easily corrected.
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Yes, in small amounts over exposing is better then under. In this case you want over exposure. But in generalities, it's not necessarily easily corrected, especially if clipping occurs or you shoot beyond the film latitude.

You might also want to consider that the effect could be (as previously mentioned) in post... or better yet, as in Diving Bell, probably a combination of slightly in camera over exposing and pushing in processing. (Processing is a much different process then DI or post work)
 
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I just read the article of Blindness in the September issue of American Cinematographer. The DP certainly has his own way of shooting things.

I haven't the time to post specifics from the article, but here are the different formats/cameras they shot on:
Super 35: Arricam Studio, Arri 435, Panaflex Platinum, Aaton 35-III
Super 16: Aaton A-Minima, XTR Prod, Xterá
8-Perf 35mm: Beaumont "Mini" VistaVision
MiniDV: Sony DCR-PC110!!!

Many scenes had at least two - if not three - cameras rolling. César Charlone has a very interesting vision.
 
I was hoping there would be an article in american cinematographer. I'll have to check it out.
 
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