SHORT: Knoxville! Shot on RED in Virginia and Tennessee

William_Robinette

William_Robinette

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I had the great opportunity to DP a short titled Knoxville over the past two weeks which was a low budet project with a small crew that was shot in both Richmond, VA and Knoxville, TN. Had a great and wonderful time, the crew was awesome the actors brought really good characters to the table and best of all it was fun, which I believe is the whole point of what it is we do.

I had access to a very small grip trailer with just the essentials of grip equipment and a couple 1k moles, smaller fresnels, and a couple Divas. I had received my Scarlet just three days before I left for Knoxville and it was a trial by fire senario for the new girl. Have to say the camera was bullet proof, never held us up, and churned out images I never thought I could get out of the palm of my hand. Reviewing footage off a travel G-tech drive and a MacBook Pro in bed at the end of the day is just icing on the cake. I can't post any footage just yet, but I exported some stills from a couple scenes. These are pretty much straight out of the camera, not graded to indicate how the final film will look.


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I am proud of what I was able to do with this project and the tool I used is one I thought a few here might have interest in learning a little more about in the real world of production. If you have a question with regards to RED or how it was used or how the above images were made I would love to have a discussion about it where knowledge could be passed around..,
 
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Not sure why you're even asking.

As William said, this is a film making board and that is one of the things we discuss.

Looks great William!
 
D_and_G said:
Just curious, did you gel any of the windows ?
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Didn't have to actually! They held very well. Actually nothing in these shots is over exposed or lost, I just was roughing in exposure for the stills. Once a full proper grade is done there is more info to be pulled from those window bright spots if we so choose.

Thanks for taking a look guys! Would be happy to answer any other questions, and I hope to have a few more stills up by tomorrow of some cooler locations. We had some police action (planned of course!) and such happen for a few scenes we shot over this past week. Fun stuff!
 
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I think they all look great, and after the grade, POW. yeah babay. On the third, even the noise in the backround has a grainy film look to it to me. I do like the scarlet.
 
The DR isn't bad, I actually have a hard time blowing it out in a lot of situations. One thing I am learning though is that noise reduction is an important part of the post process now. While I do find the noise very pleasing and very "filmic" of it's own accord, just a touch of NR is required on some shots depending on how they are exposed to create a super sleek image if that's what you are into. In #3 for example, for the location, character arc, and story I wanted it a bit dark and grungy with no catch lights in the eyes so the grain works. If I was to put a little NR on it the shot would clean up very quickly and look very very good. Another way would have been to shoot a stop over, and bring it back in post (which I have been doing a lot on exteriors) which really gives you a glossy commercial look right off the bat and greatly reduces the necessity for any NR at all. Lots of options.
 
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