super 16 short diary

Post by **S8 Booster** » Tue Sep 07, 2004 6:27 pm

Shit happens when Murphy is around. As you know he allways is but sometimes things run so smoothly that it is easy to forget

R

Post by **unxetas** » Tue Sep 07, 2004 6:46 pm

mattias wrote:for sure. the mags were taped, but not that thorougly and mainly to see which ones contained film. you just don't expect light leaks with a serviced sr3.

/matt

I guess you do now..

Post by **mattias** » Tue Sep 07, 2004 7:05 pm

unxetas wrote:I guess you do now..

good point. these things always happen, and for every production you learn to recognize another side of murphy's multi faceted face. ;-)

off to the set now. shooting the scene with sara and the kid tonight, for those of you who've read the script.

/matt

Post by **christoph** » Tue Sep 07, 2004 8:44 pm

unxetas wrote:
mattias wrote:for sure. the mags were taped, but not that thorougly and mainly to see which ones contained film. you just don't expect light leaks with a serviced sr3.
I guess you do now..

not to discredit your crew, but considering that this only happened to part of the roll and that you have used the mag before without problems, it seems to be a error from the clapper loader or 1st AC rather than a mag failure... those SRIIIs are dead reliable!

without knowing any more about the incident, i'll make the wild guess that either the film wasn't properly unloaded (thus the end was fogged but not the beginning) or that the mag was removed from the camera at some point and hasn't been seated properly again (you always have to make sure that the red stripe on the hinge is covered by the flap)
++ christoph ++

Post by **teadub** » Tue Sep 07, 2004 9:28 pm

mattias wrote:for sure. the mags were taped, but not that thorougly and mainly to see which ones contained film. you just don't expect light leaks with a serviced sr3.

Yeah, that sounds more like the old Arri S problem, if memory serves. Not on a modern camera like that.

Post by **mattias** » Wed Sep 08, 2004 6:07 am

september 7

funny anecdote: the lead actress wanted to try some method acting. the script called for som alcohol induced nausea, and when i forbid her to get drunk to get there she smoked three camels in 10 minutes instead (she usually doesn't smoke more than one or two low tar cigarettes a day). it worked, and then continued working for several hours. i've never seen anyone so pale and miserable in my entire life. poor thing, but we got great pictures. :-)

/matt

Post by **Scotness** » Wed Sep 08, 2004 12:32 pm

This cool Matt - break a leg (that's theatre-speak for good luck -- I don't know if saying good luck is bad luck in the film world) -- anyway can't wait to see some pics

Scot

Post by **MovieStuff** » Wed Sep 08, 2004 1:47 pm

mattias wrote:i've never seen anyone so pale and miserable in my entire life. poor thing, but we got great pictures.

And if you were shooting video, you could have used her for white balance! :lol:

Roger

Post by **S8 Booster** » Wed Sep 08, 2004 1:50 pm

MovieStuff wrote:
mattias wrote:i've never seen anyone so pale and miserable in my entire life. poor thing, but we got great pictures.
And if you were shooting video, you could have used her for white balance! :lol:

Roger

What about "grey card" for the colourist? 8)

R

Post by **mattias** » Wed Sep 08, 2004 5:17 pm

S8 Booster wrote:
MovieStuff wrote: And if you were shooting video, you could have used her for white balance!
What about "grey card" for the colourist?

*lol* yeah. by the way it looks like we're doing a fully graded spirit scan to digibeta, or possibly hd if we can figure out the online part. very exciting.

and now off to the last day. thanks for your support.

/matt

Post by **sunrise** » Wed Sep 08, 2004 10:01 pm

mattias wrote:the lead actress wanted to try some method acting.

Oh no, not method acting!

We had an actor once who was very inspired by method acting. I was *only* the DP, and the director just let him go on with it. It was a scene at a dining table and we ended up with all the shots of him having a fork in his mouth or rubbing his face with a wine glass. It looked awfull.

When I started directing I allways tried to avoid these actor studio approaches. I find them to be too stylist and fake. I'd tell my actors: "Just stand there, and do NOT act!"

A standard joke between my crew is that I would have loved to direct Buster Keaton. It's true though...

michael

Post by **mattias** » Thu Sep 09, 2004 6:57 am

september 8

last day of principal photography. did a scene with all four main actors, an ambulance, a few supporting actors, and extras, all choreographed to a quite intricate camera move, and it worked. big thanks to anders, our first assistant director (and also production manager), and johan, the dp, for pulling it off. i wanted to do separate shots and cut the scene together. :-)

that's all for now. i'm too tired. wrap party at our place tomorrow. our means mine and my girlfriend's. she's the producer of the film.

/matt

Post by **mattias** » Thu Sep 09, 2004 7:20 am

sunrise wrote:"Just stand there, and do NOT act!"

yeah, except saying it like that rarely works in my experience. actors are sensitive people who will usually "act" more the more you tell them not to, since it makes them self concious. i like to work with verbs and motivations. it takes their minds off that sensing stuff.

/matt

Post by **S8 Booster** » Fri Sep 10, 2004 12:18 am

mattias wrote:
sunrise wrote:"Just stand there, and do NOT act!"
yeah, except saying it like that rarely works in my experience. actors are sensitive people who will usually "act" more the more you tell them not to, since it makes them self concious. i like to work with verbs and motivations. it takes their minds off that sensing stuff.

/matt

Champagene flowing then :?:

Anyway: This is a totally true story from Das Boot: This guy Thomssen was totally pissed in all his apprearance in the film - the intro section. According to directors cut he was as drunk as he "plays" - allways.

http://www.gonemovies.com/WWW/MyWebFilm ... homsen.htm

If you havenÃ‚Â´t seen this film yet - this section alone is reason enough for a rent. Incredible.

R

Post by **mattias** » Sat Sep 11, 2004 6:09 pm

september 11 (i must admit that felt a little odd writing)

scanned today. wow, the spirit is cool. we had an hd feed into the da vinci and did the (very mild) grain reduction and color correction in high res and then downconverted to digibeta and dvcam. the images are so sharp you almost fall into them when looking, and i'm kind of glad it softens a little on the digibeta, cause it actually isn't very pretty. on the big screen i'm sure it would look great, but on a 30 inch hdtv monitor it just looks computer generated (note to self, use a pro mist or something if finishing on hd). anyway, aesthetically it also came out great, so i'm confident it will be a pretty good film. i'll get back to you with some stills and a progress report on the editing.

/matt