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本文章最後由 randyche 於 2010-12-2 03:04 編輯
Okay, its been awhile since I wrote any articles, so here it is.
I've just finished shooting my second feature length film here in Taiwan, the first one is called 皮克青春, and it was shot on RED MX, and this second film is called 命運化妝師, and for this one for various reasons, for which I won't go into detail we decided to use ARRI D-21 for the project.
During testing I found out that the D-21, albeit being a solid build camera with ARRI standard, it has one major flaw that keeps me from choosing this camera as my first choice, that is its basic 200ASA light sensitivity. for only using this camera for commercials before, this problem never really bothers me since I can always apply a higher ASA LUTs (usually 400ASA) to it in post, and the grain and video noise doesn't showed up much on TV or small screen. However, for this project, since it is destined to be printed on film and projected onto the big screen, I found the video noise unacceptable when the image is under exposed.
Adding more to our problem, during pre production me and the director decided that we are going to give this project a very high contrast look. Which means that whatever lgiht source that is coming into the scene, it needs to be bright enough to reach that near clipping level but also controllable so it doesn't leak into the shadow areas. Thanks to Arrow Cinematic Group 阿榮企業, and its support we acquired a relatively large lighting package for this project.
We carried, at all time,
for HMI 2x 12K Par, 2x 6K Par, 2x 4K Par and various other smaller fixtures, we also carried large tungsten fixtures such as 4x 10K and Ruby 7s. For selective days we also used 18K HMI.
The result is rather pleasing, D-21 delivered the most filmic raw images I've seen from a digital camera so far when properly exposed, most of them doesn't even need any post color correction. However, the trade off in order to achieve this, is a large lighting set up (on average our daily basic lighting set up is 1x 12K and 2x 6K to achieve ambient) , and the time that is needed for lighting, and with this camera this project would not be possible without the helps from Arrow Films.
For several days we also have a ARRI Alexa on set as a B camera. The obvious advantages for Alexa is its 800ASA, and relatively light weight design. In comparison with ARRI D-21, the camera required less lights thus, we move a lot faster on set with the camera, however, the footage it produced does look a lot more "videoy" while D-21's footage looks like film even in its RAW form.
ARRI D-21 is undoubtly a very nice camera, but like every other cameras, it has its unique characteristics and there are requirements that needed to be filled in order for the camera to reach its maximum performance. Wheter or not a production is willing and able to fill those requirment is something that every cinematographer needed to consider before choosing their equipments.
Below are some Behind the Scene Pictures
(If anybody wished to know more details regarding ARRI D-21, Alexa or any other cinematography related questions, please feel free to contact me at [email protected], or call me at 0975.760.805, I am based in Taipei, Taiwan now, and I am more than willing to answer any questions to the best of my ability.)
(My Name is Randy Che, I am a Taiwanese Canadian Cinematographer, I was raised in Taiwan but I receive my training in Canada. I was working in the US / Canadian film industry for the past 10 years before I relocate back to Taiwan due to family reasons. I am available for feature, TV, Commercial, and Music Video productions. My reel and resume are all avaialble upon request.)
Sincerely
R. Che
Cinematographer
Image Flare Films
+886.975.760.805 - Taipei
+1.604.505.2588 - Vancouver
+86.138.104.22698 - Beijing
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