Shot a short at the end of June for director Vincent Cross. Fun little project and visually it was real nice to get out of NYC and shoot outside of the city. We shot at a motel in NJ but the inside of it looked like something out of a road motel in 1950 middle america. I forgot the name of the movie but a film with Ellien Page and Cilian Murphy was shot at this same location a year or two back.
We shot with the RED MX and used the Red Pro Primes. I had heard mixed reviews about the glass but I will have to say I am very impressed with the look esp when combined with shooting 4.5K which is what we used. They all open to a T1.9 and are extremely sharp, now some people have gripes with that but in my personal taste I like a sharp lens.
Lighting in the motel was a bit of a challenge esp with the package we had. Basically the 1.2k HMI Fresnel was my best friend and I always had 2 4x4's on standby to fill in here or there. I wish we had a 575 HMI for me to play with inside as a light for highlights. Instead I had to make the poor mans HMI a 1k with full CTB.
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