Latest Instant Film--DVX/Mini 35

CharlesPapert

CharlesPapert

Director of Photography
Hi gang:

For this most recent round of Instant Films, our 17th festival (www.instantfilms.tv), I opted out of directing to instead DP for one of our more notable directors, John Asher (whose film "Dirty Love" was picked up at Sundance this year). We had a lot of fun; Asher took the script he was given and ran with it. It's a bit on the raunchy side, not for the kids.

I used the DVX100a with the Mini35 and Zeiss 2.1 primes. I was going for a stylized 70's "artcore" look for the films within the film. In post we decided to treat the interviews more radically.

The film was well received--the last scene drew laughter from the audience for a solid 30 seconds!

enjoy...

http://homepage.mac.com/chupap/Film/iMovieTheater62.html
 
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That is f-ing hilarious. I will never think of Hello Dolly! in the same way - now I know what Cornelius and his boy-toy buddy were really doing in Vandergelder's basement!

Very well shot, acted and edited. Bravo! Too bad you can't show it in the red states.

;)
 
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Oh my god I pissed my pants at the end! That was truly nasty (and funny!)

Question, how was handling the steadicam with the mini-35 attached? Did you have problems or was it stable? Looks like it was a heavy ***** to carry!

nicely done!
 
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LOL

OMG that is foul; that end scene I was trying to not choke on my Breakfast Jack. This was hilarious. Great job!

The Boom Mic keeps coming down! Classic.

The opening titles are kind of weak (I assume intentionally as a title to the PORN MOVIE?) ; the 'interview' titles are wonderful.

Something of about the 24p? Was this 24p? Maybe it's the gamma cyrve? I don't know. Maybe its the small file? Looked not as 24p ish as usual. Of ocurse Im probally talking out my ass.
 
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lol I love ireverent humor like this. :D The boom mic gag was great. Yeah, The end scene was the end all. I was actually waiting for a bucket of lotion to come splashing ito his face.
 
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Damn, that was funny. I was laughing through the whole end scene.
 
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Ooookay so, about halfway through me watching this my roomate walks in the room.  Just stops dead there staring at the screen.  So um... yeah.  Awkward.

Anyways, absolutely horrendously disgustingly hilarious.  :)  The interview footage sounds like so much of the behind-the-scenes fluff I've watched for crappy movies over the years it's unreal.
 
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Glad you lads liked it!

John, by "not so 24p-ish", can you elaborate? In a good way or a bad way...?!? It was indeed 24p mode, nothing too elaborate in the camera settings (I admit I rarely tweak my 24p scene file, usually doing more in post as needed--which I certainly did on this one. Once I started blowing out the interview footage, John Asher wanted me to go further and further into nuclear-land with it.

Storyteller, we didn't use any Steadicam on this film, but perhaps you are referring to the pictures that are linked on my site. The Mini35 flies very nicely on the rig. Everything is relative--I'm used to flying cameras that weigh 20 lbs more than that, so to me the Mini is quite comfy.

I probably should mention for those that aren't familiar with Instant Films that this was a 48-hour film; with our version of it, the writer does their thing in the first 12 hours, then the directors are randomly paired with a script and the cast, so you can't plan anything in advance.
 
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Hi Charles

It looked wonderful as your work always does; but i think you answered it for me; the blow outs into nuclear land!  LOL  I'm so used to the crushing of black in the DVX and what I do with my films (I crush them into oblivion).  It looked great!  I'm just not used to seeing the 'glam' look (I know it intentional now).

Yes, it was awkward; when the 'schlong' fell out I had to glance at my office blinds and make sure a 'work neighbor' wasnt looking in.

Instant films rocks!

LOL
 
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Charles, Looks good man. Something I wouldn't want to show my grandma though.. :)
 
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It was well done, I lost myself in the story on this one which rarely ever happens. Had to watch it a second time to look at it technically. Beautiful work. ;)
 
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[sup] Storyteller, we didn't use any Steadicam on this film, but perhaps you are referring to the pictures that are linked on my site. The Mini35 flies very nicely on the rig. Everything is relative--I'm used to flying cameras that weigh 20 lbs more than that, so to me the Mini is quite comfy. [/sup]

Ok, that begs another question then. How did you move the camera during your tracking of the outdoor interview between the bald guy and the interviewer? After looking at your site and I saw you had the mini-35 up on a steadicam, I assumed that's what you did. Was that shot on a dolly or just hand held?
 
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gotcha. The interview was just handheld, the Mini35 cradled in my arms. It's a pain to handhold because you can't put it on your shoulder without a forward mounted LCD monitor, which I didn't have time to rig up. Not what I would have voted my best handheld work--but I'm glad you liked it!

I did use a 3-leg Spider dolly on Flextrack for the various dolly moves elsewhere in the film. The first one was a little "exciting" due to the speed and having to backpan through 90 degrees. I'm a bit spoiled as I'm used to riding on dollies, not pushing them and operating simultaneously, but it's always a fun challenge on these smaller films to go "ghetto". This was the same setup I used for the interview material on the Body Factory spot, also on the same site.
 
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wow this is different 4 this groupe. over the top story wise, but tech wise it was good.
 
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Over-the-top, agreed! Perhaps I should mention that because of the random assembly of director, writer and actors, no-one person really had control over the concept AND execution. And the actors were good sports about the whole thing. Sam Lloyd, who is the follically-challenged one, is one of the best and highest-profile participants in the Instant Films actor pool (he is a regular as Ted the Lawyer on "Scrubs" and guested on "Desperate Housewives") and fortunately for us, pretty fearless about taking any part thrown at him on a given Instant Films weekend. The final scene of this one was about as far as he's ever been pushed, but he muscled through it with a smile, much to his credit! (for another great Sam Lloyd turn, I heartily recommend "The Swidge", viewable at both iFilm and our site at http://www.instantfilms.com/archive15.html)
 
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