Eric Coughlin
Veteran
Here is short film I produced and DPed for the Atlanta 48 Hour Film Project. It just won Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Lead Actress competing against 90 teams in Atlanta.
Shot with the Arri Amira as A-cam, Arri Alexa Classic as B-cam (about 8 shots), DJI Inspire One for three drone shots, with Canon Cinema Zoom lenses (15.5-47 and 30-105) on the Amira and Sigma Cinema Zooms (18-35 and 50-150) on the Alexa Classic.
I shot in a variety of slow motion, 30, 36, 48, 60, 200. Compared to a Canon camera, the Amira was good in this regard as there is zero image quality loss when shooting slow motion, no crop, and it takes literally a second to change frame rate and shutter speed, while on Canon it takes around 20-30 seconds.
Shot in 2K as that's the highest resolution the festival accepts and didn't want the extra file transfer, render, etc., time of 4K eating into our 48 hours.
Shot in Log-C, and with the Amira's auto-LUT in post color grading was a breeze, as in, we mostly turned it in without touching color at all. The Alexa Classic did not have the auto-LUT feature, so we had to manually add the LUT to it, which was a bit of a pain for such a fast paced edit. The movie was edited in about 3-4 hours. During those dwindling 3-4 hours, I was still shooting, and handing off cards to the editor while he finalized the edit.
Shot with the Arri Amira as A-cam, Arri Alexa Classic as B-cam (about 8 shots), DJI Inspire One for three drone shots, with Canon Cinema Zoom lenses (15.5-47 and 30-105) on the Amira and Sigma Cinema Zooms (18-35 and 50-150) on the Alexa Classic.
I shot in a variety of slow motion, 30, 36, 48, 60, 200. Compared to a Canon camera, the Amira was good in this regard as there is zero image quality loss when shooting slow motion, no crop, and it takes literally a second to change frame rate and shutter speed, while on Canon it takes around 20-30 seconds.
Shot in 2K as that's the highest resolution the festival accepts and didn't want the extra file transfer, render, etc., time of 4K eating into our 48 hours.
Shot in Log-C, and with the Amira's auto-LUT in post color grading was a breeze, as in, we mostly turned it in without touching color at all. The Alexa Classic did not have the auto-LUT feature, so we had to manually add the LUT to it, which was a bit of a pain for such a fast paced edit. The movie was edited in about 3-4 hours. During those dwindling 3-4 hours, I was still shooting, and handing off cards to the editor while he finalized the edit.
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