F3: Talks by the Director on Forbidden Ground a Feature shot on F3

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Hey people (i keep writing "hey guys" but don't know if there are many girls that read these forums so...)

I spoke to my friend Johan Earl yesterday about his feature film Forbidden Ground that he has recently sold around the world. Thought some of you might be interested :)

It was shot on a pair of sony F3's going out to out bound recorders most of the time. Any way it looks very cool in my opinion.
They completed the trailer and that was what got them the sale. Lionsgate are distributing it in North America in November. I put the interview up on my wee site.

http://www.anycamerawilldo.com/forbidden-ground/
 
Very nice!

And probably more guys on forum. Remember that NAB Show stands for Nearly All Boys Show.

Ned
 
Does probably look like the best "filmic" looking footage from the F3 I have ever seen.

Noticed in the BTS photo a hyperdeck shuttle :)
 
Great listen, thanks so much for sharing it. That's a really good example of what you can do when you band together with like minded people to pull a project together. I was really interested in him talking about how the project grew in scope over the life of it. I have always felt a little bit a cheat to write a story around what I can shoot, given budget, locations and logistics. But how he described the beginning of the project as small and growing organically into something much larger is a lesson for me to stick to it, that the compromises we start with are OK as long as we keep going. He's got a great attitude.
 
Thanks guys,

Yeah, hscully, that's exactly why I started my wee site, because I think having a can do attitude is by far the most important thing. There is so many options with equipment these days and if you don't know how to do something some one else does who is only a click away on social media so there really is nothing stopping people who have the right attitude. Super glad you liked it man :)

I have a friend who has just completed a feature length doco that I'm going to do a post on next, will let you know when its up.
 
That looks like real high production value. The period piece costumes, the military uniforms and equipment, the earth works and FX all work nicely. Looks great!

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Hi Jackson,

Just watched all the interviews with Johan, again good job and thanks for posting these.

Where he talks about cameras he mentions using a RED camera and a Phantom along with two Sony F3's with external decks. I got the impression from what he said that perhaps the Sony's were used mostly for the night time shoots due to low light performance, and the RED might have been used for the daytime shooting. It is not very clear but I wonder if you had any insight to that since you did the interview and he is your friend.

At the end of commenting about how the F3's make a good picture he then says "I would probably not shoot on that ever again" - again just wondering what he meant by that. Is he talking about the RED camera or the Sony's? Any specific reasons given for that?


Cheers,
 
starcentral said:
Where he talks about cameras he mentions using a RED camera and a Phantom along with two Sony F3's with external decks. I got the impression from what he said that perhaps the Sony's were used mostly for the night time shoots due to low light performance, and the RED might have been used for the daytime shooting. It is not very clear but I wonder if you had any insight to that since you did the interview and he is your friend.
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While I'd like to hear what Johan says now, he did say in one of the interviews that the phantom footage wasn't usable at all and that the Red footage was only usable in the daylight because the battle field was too big for them to light enough for the Red. The F3 wins for low light. :-)
 
Hey guys, again thanks so much for the positive feed back re the site :)

Johan was saying to me that the Phantom was simply too noisy, too dark and the DR was far less than they wanted. They used it only a few days as far as I know and were very disappointed with the results. I think there was some difficulties with the person who operated the phantom as well. Johan didn't want to talk about that side of things on camera and I wanted to keep the focus of my site on the positive side of film making so we didn't cover it.

The Red was simply not a sensitive as the F3 and once they got into the swing of things the F3 proved so capable that the Red just didn't hold enough of a benefit over the F3s so was not used much at all really. The F3s were used predominantly even in the daylight scenes.

Re the "wouldnt use it again" comment, I think he really means that the out bound recorder faff around was annoying, the camera was a bit dicky ergonomically and that there are so many options out there now that you can pick and choose as per the project. At the time they were shooting, the F3 was a revelation and with out it I think they would have not been able to do the project the way they did.
 
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