With The Help of Arri Australia & Panavision Australia

With The Help of Arri Australia & Panavision Australia
The Fact that I was able to hand hold the camera comfortably at hip height became a huge plus ,,, 'SHOOTING FROM THE HIP' went from being a well worn phrase to a Creative REALITY with the ALEXA ....... Combined with the ability to render the available lights mixed colours in a natural form really made the LOOK of the Film ... I COULD NOT HAVE SHOT THE WAY I DID WITH ANY OTHER DIGITAL CAMERA I HAVE USED ..... I am PROUD of the results ;-)

Monday, October 31, 2011

Its about 5.40am and Craig tells us that there are only 3 trains to come and we are ordered off the Platform ,,, The last one just before 6 am

Craig makes the Announcement ,,,,,,, Management has told us we have to be out of the Station ,,,, there are 3 more trains and the last one is at 5. 56 am ,,, We dont know if any of them are the new Millenium trains we would like ,,,,, So it will be a WRAP at 6am !!!!!!!!!!!

We have to physically stop half of the crew running for the EXIT when they heard the word WRAP ,,,,

We weren't lucky with the first train ,,,,, some OLD silver tin can ,,,,, But we got a good rehearsal with my little Leica on video mode ,,, Jen went looking for a new angle through the windows of the train ,,,, missing her only chance to escape ,,,, She came out before the doors closed ,,, he he

The next one was a Tangara ,,,,,newer but Still not what we wanted ,,, another wait ,,, and rethink ,,, now we wouldnt be doing an extra set up that requiring a super fast interior set up of the action through the train window ,,,, It would then take us with it ,,,, This was sort of a relief ,,, Taking a train ride down the track and back before we could go home to sleep ,,,
But we were able to do several takes of the scene by framing the train area out ,,,,,,, And then we waited for OUR LAST TRAIN of the SHOOT .

But when the LAST train of the Shoot arrived ,,,,,, It was exactly what we wanted ,,,, a shinny new Millenium .
I was sitting on an applebox hand holding at ground level ,,,,,, The Train stopped in a great position ,,,, John & Kelly were spot on with the preformance

But maybe just one more shot for the editor ,,,,, A quick spin around to get the train leaving the platform ,,,,
Nice these new trains ,,, i would like to shoot something in and on them one day ,,, It would be easy with this Alexa


It was over ,,,,,,, We really had a GREAT time ,,, full of energy and what was a strange sort of fun The Camera and the People had not faltered ,,,,,,,, 11'20" of screen time ,,, mostly dialogue ,,, shot over 2 nights with only about a total of 11 hours of sound shootable time ...... That pretty fast ,,,
It had just occured to me that hardly anybody on the crew had actually worked together before ,,,,,,,,, If only you could have a wrap beer at 6 am ,,,,,,, THANK YOU LINES MEN , THANK YOU BALL BOYS
Jennifer was very happy with the whole shoot and particularly with her actors Kelly and John ,,,

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