Red Flow.
My brother found the video that you can watch in my original blog post here – http://shootingpeople.org/blog/category/bensblog/2010/03/red-flow/ – it’s Mr.Steven of Soderbergh talking about his feelings about the digital processes and how, for instance, he was cutting scenes together on the drive to location in the morning.
His main joy about using digital is that because it’s faster to get to the end product, there’s more time to reflect before you have to go back to it and make it better… It doesn’t have to be about squeezing edit times just about giving yourself more time to think. It’s good stuff…
Che and the Digital Cinema Revolution from high rez on Vimeo.
Whilst we’re on such themes, avid readers (no pun intended) will know that next week I’m off to the ÉCU festival in Paris and one of the many delights I’ll be blogging about is a work flow workshop being held by festival sponsor G-Technology.
This may sound dry and if you didn’t get the awful pun in the previous paragraph then you probably shouldn’t sign up for the workshop but really it’s about “…reducing cost, speeding up production and giving filmmakers more time to spend on their creative process…” so hopefully, after watching Mr.Soderbergh you’re not all shaking your heads and saying “But Ben, you’ll be in Paris… why are you going to workshop on hard drives when you could be eating cake?” Though if you are saying that then I’ll just point you to the last historical figure who blabbed about eating cake in Paris, let us not forget that the sticky end she came to had nothing to do with the business end of an eclair…
Anyway the workshop is also going to include tips on shooting on RED and how to manage this footage most effectively with external storage and software configurations. So yes Guy, I will take notes.
Further more…
“The workshops will feature the real life case scenario of ÉCU shortlisted filmmaker, Preston Reed, sharing the workflow set-up he recently used in the making of the low budget production Travelling Salesman, which employed both RED camera capture and G-Technology drives.
If you pre-register to attend the workshop, you will have the chance to walk away with your very own personal film product assistant. The latest product launched by G-Technology – G-DRIVE mobile – is perfect for storing all your stills, music, documents and graphic files in a Mac-styled, pocket-sized design.
The hour-long workshops will be held at 2pm on both Saturday, March 13 and Sunday, March 14, at the Cinema Le Grand (La Salle Club).”
Pre-register now by emailing workshops@ecufilmfestival.com and if you are going to ÉCU then drop me a line and let me know because it’d be lovely to see you there. Especially because there’s this amazing cake shop…
