Clear Blue Tuesday

Jan_Crittenden

Jan_Crittenden

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Saw a film debut last night in NYC that was shot entirely on the HPX500. Projected on a 45' screen it looked fabulous. But the film was even better than that. It follows 11 New Yorkers rebuild their lives after the devasting events of 9/11/2001. Check out www.clearblueTuesday.com. It is a musical, and wonderful. I laughed, I cried, I loved it.

Check it out.

Best,

Jan
 
They are working on some additional showings in Novemeber in LA and NYC. I will post once that is locked down. Last night was really special in that the city had the Twin Towers light beams on when we were on our way into the theater, and they turn them off around midnight so they were off when we came out. Seemed to flow with the film.

I think that musicals have to be the hardest to shoot and keep your audience involved, and then there is the quality of the audio mix and all of that sort of thing and then there is making sure the lips move with the words. Very tough. The film looks very high budget, but Elizabeth said it was very low budget. I do believe that the spirit of the Towers pulled her project through the budget crunch. This is probably the first "happy" film about the 9/11 tragedy. Anyhow, as you can see, I am pretty stoked byt the film, and the 500 did me proud, it didn't get in the way of the story. ;-)
 
Any specifics on what lenses or other info you can get? Trailer looks great, hope it makes it to cable or DVD!
 
Not sure about the lenses but I will ask. But considering what it takes to do a musical and there are around 15 songs in it, it really is a amazing piece of work. Ultimately it will make it to DVD, but they are trying theaters to start.
 
This is Raoul Germain, I was the Director of Photography for the film Clear Blue Tuesday.
We had major budgetary concerns going into this film. Many different cameras were discussed, but we settled on the HPX-500 for a few reasons. First, we were looking for a camera with a 2/3in chip. The idea was thrown around to shoot on an HVX, but i wanted the control of a full manual lens and the depth of field of a larger chip. Being that the film was to be pretty much 100% handheld, the camera also had to be light and uncumbersome, something that a 35mm lens adapter on an HVX would not have allowed.
The HVX500 was fairly new to the market at the time we used it. Our two cameras, as I recall, were practically brand new. Budget being what it was, we had few lens choices. After extensive talks with our rental house, the decision was made to use SD lens' on the cameras. We were shooting in 720 24PN mode and solid standard def lens resolve over 800 lines. Its true that the image might be a bit more crisp with a true HD lens, but I am extremely happy with the end result of the image for our film. I do not recall exactly which lens' we used. I know that one of our lens was a longer 21x and another a wide 11x. This made coverage of scenes easier as we could shoot tights and wides at the same time and preserve what was essentially an improvised script.
I hope this helps answer any questions.
 
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