I started to write this post while waiting in the movie theater and noticed I was writing in english only three paragraphs in, so, it's gonna be like that. Fuck worrying about it being written perfectly, I think we're past that stage. Before we get to the point of what I'm writing about, I want to …
Browsing Month
January 2015
Nesse fim de semana rodamos os dois últimos reels da turma, Petar e Clem. Sábado começou bem promissor, com chuva que só a desgraça, locação longe pra carai, frio (não tanto), Blackmagic 4k alugada, carro, equipamento na lama - lama pra todo lado, na verdade - e por aí vai. Parecia que tava dando …
Nessa semana, filmamos mais, e ainda tem mais dois sets no fim de semana. Quarta saímos mais cedo da aula e pegamos o rumo de North Vancouver, Lynn Park como destino final. Éramos quatro - Clem, Petar, eu e Dani - para filmar os planos do reel da Dani. Fomos esperando chuva e frio. Chegamos lá, tava …
WHAT LIES AHEAD So I decided to add a little something after the Conclusion and Bibliography for a couple reasons. First, it's been a year since the article was originally written. During this year, a lot happened. SLR Magic's Anamorphot came out, we got the Focus Module, 4K is becoming very …
Post propaganda? Bom, não exatamente. O Writogether é um projeto iniciado pelo Ricardo Cestari, primo da May, que mora em São Bernardo. Depois faço um post falando da figura, mas é um camarada que respeito muito porque é o tipo de pessoa que falta no mundo, uma pessoa com opinião, mas não fechado …
Entre Sexta e Domingo, filmei quatro projetos de demo reel de pessoas diferentes - incluindo o meu - em locações totalmente diferentes, com estilos totalmente diferentes e diretores igualmente diferentes ("igualmente diferentes"? existe isso?). A sexta começou com aula, e depois cerimônia de …
Filmei na rua muitas vezes no Brasil. A maioria delas era guerrilha total, sem autorização, se ninguém reclamar, tá valendo, escondendo a câmera, com medo de ladrão, de polícia, de segurança, de gente olhando torto, muitas vezes abrindo mão de planos importantes ou com planos caindo porque a gente …
Hoje eu comecei o dia com a perspectiva de uma única aula, à noite, das 19h às 22h, então, tudo para ser um dia super produtivo. Estranhamente, no meio de uma semana de pura neblina ao amanhecer e anoitecer, hoje o céu tava limpo e tivemos um nascer do Sol surrealmente bonito. Só vi as fotos …
< < BACK TO CHAPTER VII - CONCLUSION BIBLIOGRAPHY ABOUT ANAMORPHIC LENSES AND ADAPTERS BORDWELL, David. Poetics of Cinema – Chapter 10: Cinemascope. EUA: Routledge, 2007 REID, Andrew. Anamorphic Shooter’s Guide, 2nd Edition. EUA: EOSHD, 2011 MEUSY, Jean-Jacques. Henri Chrétien, Bernard Natan, and …
< < BACK TO CHAPTER VIC - WORKFLOW CONCLUSION Looking through the lenses is a must in order to understand how they work. Was the time I spent researching, reading and experimenting online elightening? Sure, but it doesn't cut even close to the very first minutes handling each lens and seeing the …
< < BACK TO CHAPTER VIB - ON SET PREVIEW WORKFLOW DISCLAIMER: This was written long before the MLV format and real time players for MagicLantern's raw files! More on that in the future, I hope. The most complicated step on this process is dealing with the raw footage. The anamorphic bit is quite …
Apesar de ainda ser o décimo dia de 2015, parece que tem séculos que voltamos do Brasil. Esse post vem na rebarba das reflexões do trajeto Vancouver - São Bernardo - São Paulo - Salvador - São Paulo - São Bernardo - Vancouver em menos de duas semanas. A sensação de "visitar" esses lugares todos onde …
A jornada de volta pra Vancouver foi longa e cansativa, acho que pelo simples fato de termos que ficar parados, sentados, por literalmente um dia inteiro até chegarmos em casa. Embarcamos dia 31 de Dezembro, o que, em São Paulo, é um pedido de engarrafamento, então saímos de casa super cedo e …
< < BACK TO CHAPTER VIA - CONCEPT DEVELOPMENT VIB - ON SET PREVIEW One of my main concerns shooting anamorphic was how to take a look at the footage on set, at the correct aspect ratio, not squeezed like it's being shot. This topic contains not only the time of shooting, but also reviewing a …
< < BACK TO CHAPTER VI - THE PROCESS VIA - CONCEPT DEVELOPMENT Starting with Episode 01, it takes a lot of imagination on the actors behalf to put themselves into the context of this ruined environment that visually goes no further than the minds of the crew. In this sense, shooting with a digital …
< < BACK TO CHAPTER VB - ISCORAMAS - EPISODE 02 VI - THE PROCESS This is the chapter where I'll either curse and regret the idea of shooting anamorphic or swear I'll never go back to standard 16:9. It's a description of the path I chose to follow during shooting and post-production and its goal is …
< < BACK TO CHAPTER VA - LOMO - EPISODE 01 VB - ISCORAMAS - EPISODE 02 For the second episode, I went with the holy grail of anamorphic adapters, the Iscoramas. This decision was based on a key factor: their image quality and sharpness is excellent even at fast apertures like f/2 or f/2.8. Since my …
< < BACK TO CHAPTER V - ZONA SSP VA - LOMO - EPISODE 01 Episode 01 is a very bright chapter, with lots of sunlight, exterior shots and well-lit environments. Taking advantage of all this available light, we went with LOMOs, real cinema lenses, but that require lots of light for optimal performance. …
< < BACK TO CHAPTER IVA - CUSTOM CROPMARKS V - ZONA SSP Zona SSP started out as a webseries project for a random class in which I was able to experiment with everything we're not usually encouraged to do at the traditional film production classes. I wrote and directed both episodes. Besides that, I …
< < BACK TO CHAPTER IV - MAGICLANTERN RAW IVA - CUSTOM CROPMARKS MagicLantern's first use when combined with anamorphic lenses was the design of custom cropmarks. These are drawings that are placed on top of the image that is being shot, which allow previewing a different frame format than the one …
< < BACK TO CHAPTER IIIH - FAKING THE LOOK IV - MAGICLANTERN RAW MagicLantern is an alternate software that runs on top of many Canon DSLR's firmware. A group of hackers and programmers started to study Canon's source code around 2009 and quickly achieved some advantages over the original firmware. …