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UPDATE: The final result http://vimeo.com/2174306
Hi everyone! Im starting a thread for a huge project that I have been producer and DoP for, during the last several months. I am using this forum alot for technical reference and guidance, and this project is perfect for a detailed workblog.
ABOUT
Client: Oslokino
Production company:Westerdals Vel Fortalt
Producer: Håvar Karlsen/Magnus Rye
Director:Morten Sommerland
DoP:Håvar Karlsen
Im just finishing my last term at Westerdals School of Communication in Oslo, Norway. Its a school that focuses on storytelling and dramaturgy (for producer and director), and very practial in its form (lots of moviemaking). The last year is made up as a company, were students receive real assignments from real customers for real money. Its one of these projects this blog is about. I posted a musicvideo we did a while back, which got some positive attention. Im happy to say that it was accepted at Grimstad Kortfilmfestival, the offical norwegian festival for short films.
PREPRODUCTION
We started out by presenting ideas for the client, Oslos chain of cinemas, Oslokino. They wanted a commercial for their own theatres to adverties the arrival of their new digitial cinema, scheduled to open at Grunerløkka, Oslo, in the fall of 2008. We presented 4-5 ideas, thinking they would choose one. They chose three, so this is just 1 of the 3 films we made for this client.
The film I am presenting here, is an actiontrailer. Its a trailer as we are used to see them from Hollywood, with spectacular scenes here and there, and with a huge ending. Only, this time it doesnt "open in a cinema near you". Its "A cinema coming near you". Big laughs! We made a schetchfilm which was the base for their decision together with a oral pitch.
Watch it here!
We knew early on that this was going to be a heavy post-production film. We contacted The End, a post-production company based in Oslo, to see if they were interested. They have gathered a team of very talented 2d/comp/grading artists, and were more than willing to get into our project, since this could be a great showreel project. After weeks of storyboarding, testshoots and conversation with the tech guys at The End, we made a presentation to "lock" our decisions and shooting plans.
After getting green light from client and post-production, it was time for shooting!
SHOOTING
We did this film and one of the others (a much easier shoot) on the same rental equipment to save time and money. During week 7 2008, we shot this for 5 days and the other one on 1 day. Heres a list of some of the equipment used
We hired Petter Lee, a professional photographer educated from the Norwegian Film School, as b-photographer/focuspuller (!). He was a great asset to me, as I am a learning by doing photographer. We used Kai from Fiksern as pyrotechnician, and Tyrone Wiggins (Bad Boys 2!!) as stuntman. We were so happy to get so many talented indiviuals in on this, and with the rest of our class joining in as crew on set, and with the lower classes as productions assistants, we got a very nice production unit! Heres some stills from production. Enjoy!
We did so many cool shots during these 5 days that we were totally amped by the end of the week. Everyone involved, from fx guys to catering delivered as wanted, and we got a very smooth machinery up and running. We actually blew up 2 heavy explosive charges in one of Oslos most busy parks. We needed both police, fireguard and county approval, together with alot of extra personel to close of a 30 meters radius in the park!
SHOTS
All clips have been added a watermark, and therefore been recompressed
Heres a stunt bonus for you guys. Stuntman Tyrone Wiggins is a great guy, extremly professional and delivers on the mark. He has worked in Hollywood and is now living in Norway. Hes mostly doing stunt coordination over here, but now was his moment to shine.
1. Total
2. HVX200 720 50frames. Handheld by me
3. HDV 100shutter. Handheld
4. HDV on tripod
Watch it here!
Offlines
Heres the offline with added temp music. This is what we sent our composer as reference music. This is also a month earlier than the final offline. NO TITLING OR 2D/3D WORK HAS BEEN ADDED
Watch it here
Heres the a late offline sent to The End and Animidas (3D specialists which came on our project recently to create havoc to some cars, amongst other things). This is stripped for music, but added temp sound to be able to play with that in 2d/3d work. Our final project will be soundedited at Soundfactory, in 5.1 NO TITLING OR 2D/3D WORK HAS BEEN ADDED
Watch in here
Comp work
We were all very exited when Matt Willis-Jones at The End was assigned to our project. Hes an extremely talented compositor, and is very exited about our project. We did a final walktrough with Matt and The End, together with Animidas, to compile a detailed FX-todolist. What can be done 2d, what needs 3d. etc. Just a few days later this dropped down into my inbox...
Watch it here!
This is a very early scetch, made only from 2d&stockimagery Matt had avaliable. He works with Quantel and Shake, and even if he said this was just a short test, it at least reassured us that we were on the right track, and involved with the right people.
Currently
Right now the project lies at The End and Animidas. Soundwork is scheduled for May together with 3D work. Its going to be a close race towards 1. June, which is our original date of deliviery. And in addition to this film, there are two others (mostly minor editing and soundwork left) and examprojects left to be done. But I will try and keep you posted on things. I do have some more stills and backplates, but im not allowed more than 10 images pr thread. I might add some more later.
UPDATE
The final result
http://vimeo.com/2174306
Again, thanks to everyone involved, so many has done a great job for us on this project. Im probably forgetting many, Ill try and update as I remember everyone
Petter Lee, Matt Willis-Jones, Lyder at Animidas, Carl Christian and Sveinung at Film&TV1, the entire Film&TV3, Oslo Kommune, Politiet, Brannvesnet, Fiksern, Norsk Film, Hugo på Videoutstyr, Bislet Bilutleie, Marianne at The End, Tyrone Wilkins, Daniel, Erlend Olaisen, Bøchman, all the extras, Soundfactory, Norsk Filmstudio, Anette Gijertsen, Marius Christiansen
UPDATE: The final result http://vimeo.com/2174306
Hi everyone! Im starting a thread for a huge project that I have been producer and DoP for, during the last several months. I am using this forum alot for technical reference and guidance, and this project is perfect for a detailed workblog.
ABOUT
Client: Oslokino
Production company:Westerdals Vel Fortalt
Producer: Håvar Karlsen/Magnus Rye
Director:Morten Sommerland
DoP:Håvar Karlsen
Im just finishing my last term at Westerdals School of Communication in Oslo, Norway. Its a school that focuses on storytelling and dramaturgy (for producer and director), and very practial in its form (lots of moviemaking). The last year is made up as a company, were students receive real assignments from real customers for real money. Its one of these projects this blog is about. I posted a musicvideo we did a while back, which got some positive attention. Im happy to say that it was accepted at Grimstad Kortfilmfestival, the offical norwegian festival for short films.
PREPRODUCTION
We started out by presenting ideas for the client, Oslos chain of cinemas, Oslokino. They wanted a commercial for their own theatres to adverties the arrival of their new digitial cinema, scheduled to open at Grunerløkka, Oslo, in the fall of 2008. We presented 4-5 ideas, thinking they would choose one. They chose three, so this is just 1 of the 3 films we made for this client.
The film I am presenting here, is an actiontrailer. Its a trailer as we are used to see them from Hollywood, with spectacular scenes here and there, and with a huge ending. Only, this time it doesnt "open in a cinema near you". Its "A cinema coming near you". Big laughs! We made a schetchfilm which was the base for their decision together with a oral pitch.
Watch it here!
We knew early on that this was going to be a heavy post-production film. We contacted The End, a post-production company based in Oslo, to see if they were interested. They have gathered a team of very talented 2d/comp/grading artists, and were more than willing to get into our project, since this could be a great showreel project. After weeks of storyboarding, testshoots and conversation with the tech guys at The End, we made a presentation to "lock" our decisions and shooting plans.
After getting green light from client and post-production, it was time for shooting!
SHOOTING
We did this film and one of the others (a much easier shoot) on the same rental equipment to save time and money. During week 7 2008, we shot this for 5 days and the other one on 1 day. Heres a list of some of the equipment used
- HVX200 w/2x16gb P2
- mini35 P+S Adapter
- 4x Zeiss Super speed (18, 35, 50, 85)
- LaCie 500GB HD for field dumping
- Followfocus and light matte box
- Polafilter, gradfilters
- Dolly with miniJib, and 10 meters tracks
- 4x4 meters reflection cloth and greenscreen
- A 2000w smokemachine
- A 7000w aggregat (just movable)
- A nice size rental
- ...and several sparks and two huge explosive charges with a special light soil
We hired Petter Lee, a professional photographer educated from the Norwegian Film School, as b-photographer/focuspuller (!). He was a great asset to me, as I am a learning by doing photographer. We used Kai from Fiksern as pyrotechnician, and Tyrone Wiggins (Bad Boys 2!!) as stuntman. We were so happy to get so many talented indiviuals in on this, and with the rest of our class joining in as crew on set, and with the lower classes as productions assistants, we got a very nice production unit! Heres some stills from production. Enjoy!
We did so many cool shots during these 5 days that we were totally amped by the end of the week. Everyone involved, from fx guys to catering delivered as wanted, and we got a very smooth machinery up and running. We actually blew up 2 heavy explosive charges in one of Oslos most busy parks. We needed both police, fireguard and county approval, together with alot of extra personel to close of a 30 meters radius in the park!
SHOTS
All clips have been added a watermark, and therefore been recompressed
Heres a stunt bonus for you guys. Stuntman Tyrone Wiggins is a great guy, extremly professional and delivers on the mark. He has worked in Hollywood and is now living in Norway. Hes mostly doing stunt coordination over here, but now was his moment to shine.
1. Total
2. HVX200 720 50frames. Handheld by me
3. HDV 100shutter. Handheld
4. HDV on tripod
Watch it here!
Offlines
Heres the offline with added temp music. This is what we sent our composer as reference music. This is also a month earlier than the final offline. NO TITLING OR 2D/3D WORK HAS BEEN ADDED
Watch it here
Heres the a late offline sent to The End and Animidas (3D specialists which came on our project recently to create havoc to some cars, amongst other things). This is stripped for music, but added temp sound to be able to play with that in 2d/3d work. Our final project will be soundedited at Soundfactory, in 5.1 NO TITLING OR 2D/3D WORK HAS BEEN ADDED
Watch in here
Comp work
We were all very exited when Matt Willis-Jones at The End was assigned to our project. Hes an extremely talented compositor, and is very exited about our project. We did a final walktrough with Matt and The End, together with Animidas, to compile a detailed FX-todolist. What can be done 2d, what needs 3d. etc. Just a few days later this dropped down into my inbox...
Watch it here!
This is a very early scetch, made only from 2d&stockimagery Matt had avaliable. He works with Quantel and Shake, and even if he said this was just a short test, it at least reassured us that we were on the right track, and involved with the right people.
Currently
Right now the project lies at The End and Animidas. Soundwork is scheduled for May together with 3D work. Its going to be a close race towards 1. June, which is our original date of deliviery. And in addition to this film, there are two others (mostly minor editing and soundwork left) and examprojects left to be done. But I will try and keep you posted on things. I do have some more stills and backplates, but im not allowed more than 10 images pr thread. I might add some more later.
UPDATE
The final result
http://vimeo.com/2174306
Again, thanks to everyone involved, so many has done a great job for us on this project. Im probably forgetting many, Ill try and update as I remember everyone
Petter Lee, Matt Willis-Jones, Lyder at Animidas, Carl Christian and Sveinung at Film&TV1, the entire Film&TV3, Oslo Kommune, Politiet, Brannvesnet, Fiksern, Norsk Film, Hugo på Videoutstyr, Bislet Bilutleie, Marianne at The End, Tyrone Wilkins, Daniel, Erlend Olaisen, Bøchman, all the extras, Soundfactory, Norsk Filmstudio, Anette Gijertsen, Marius Christiansen
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