DSLR Feature Film List

Added FUERTEVENTURA, which was shown at the Stockholm Festival this year.

It's cool that three of these films are Swedish, and the Stockholm festival showed two films plus a third one as a work in progress presentation.
Hoping to see a lot of DSLR features at festivals next year.
 
movies shot utilizing DSLR's

movies shot utilizing DSLR's

(I didn;t see this topic. oops.)

Some of these may be repeats:

Black Swan; Subways shots shot with a Canon 7D, rest of film on super 16
TRAILER:


TILT (Unreleased); shot almost entirely on Canon T2i's
TRAILER:


Rollertown (Unreleased); select shots utilized Canon T2i and 7D. rest of film shot on RED
TRAILER (not containing real footage from film. used to get funding):
Hobo! with a Shotgun (Unreleased); Select shots Utilized Canon T2i. Rest of film shot on RED
TRAILER:

(DOP on using the T2i: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8GdIm5ydzTg)
Machete; select shots utilizing 5D, rest of film shot on ???
TRAILER


Red Tails(Unreleased); shot in part on a 5D. Rest of film ???
TRAILER: Unavailable
 
Last edited:
I think it's best to keep this list focused on feature films shot entirely on DSLRs.

I'm adding TILT though.
Also adding the DVXUser thread and IMDb page for TINY FURNITURE, and I'm adding TIM BURTON'S CORPSE BRIDE as well since it was shot on 5D mk I.
 
If no one minds me asking a topic question:

So many of these films look extraordinarily prospective. While I won't go as far as to say that any of the projects have a true cinema standard about them, I will say that projects like Joe Song, Bad Is Bad, and Farm really set the standard for what low-budget, DSLR filmmaking can accomplish amazingly if you have a great eye for things and use only what's needed to film, light, and execute the scene wisely. These films are extremely professional, yet keep the air that they were created by creativity alone, not big budgets or any budgets at all. So my question is: how complex and expensive were these films? Did the budgets exceed $5,000? Did the filmmakers fund every tiny process like the billions of insurance requirements? Did the filmmakers pay every actor or staff person minimum wage? Did the filmmakers go through all the steps that so many other filmmakers seem to become obsessive over?

Answers to questions like those are what would drive me as a filmmaker. Take Bad Is Bad for example. A very professional looking film, but if you asked me, I would say the film probably cost around $2,000 to make - I don't suspect that the filmmakers paid every step of insurance, I don't suspect they used actors who belonged to unions and insurance coverages and protective workforce establishments, I don't suspect that they paid a whopping sum for any location, and I don't suspect that they even went as far as supplying their actors with caviar and roses. I've checked out the film like crazy, the main actor has been in 14 of the guy's short films, like the house it's set in, the cast and crew seem to also be re-current or even family members, there doesn't seem to be any crazy injury-prone stunts or situations, and even the lighting direction seems to be 'tape it up on the ceiling' more than anything. And yet to my eyes, it's an example of a film that looks exceptionally well done and looks certainly better than the majority of DSLR films.

So will what seems to be the lack of official rule-following hurt the films marketing chances? Maybe. It already seems that it's getting turned down by festivals like crazy. But the essential point is that again, it's a good looking film and I wouldn't bet the budget was over $2,000 or $3,000, and I'm even thinking that a number like that would be a high point. Now who knows, maybe that guess is an insult to the film, maybe they went all out and spent thousands and thousands accounting for every single detail, but with the filmmakers behind it being students or whatnot, I just don't think so. So I'm very eager to see if companies and festivals will hold it against any of these films if they skimped out anywhere, and I'd bet the honest truth is that many of them did.
 
Last edited:
Alan Certeza said:
Here's another one:

From the Sundance award-winning team "Humpday",

"The Off Hours"
http://www.theoffhoursfilm.com/
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1646981/
http://www.facebook.com/#!/theoffhours?v=info&ref=ts

Check out the Crew and Cast... Very well experience, including myself. hahaha

This was shot on the 5Dmk2 and "L" series lens
Click to expand...

Just an update with the film I worked on has been selected to go to Sundance.

http://sundance.slated.com/2011/fil...1;jsessionid=7059C35BE961D7BDB1E3130E16A21AF5
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top