[Tig] Is there anybody out there

[Geoff Boyle]

I just finished shooting a film digitally, my first full feature after 
20+ years of shooting commercials on film, and have these comments for 
Mike:-

1) we saved around £400K by not shooting film, that's as far as the 
off-line stage only, I saw exactly the look I wanted as I had created a 
LUT before shooting, I did this myself with Speedgrade and then refined 
it with a colourist and Baselight generating a Trulight LUT. This 
enabled me to push the look harder than I would have done with film as I 
was seeing exactly what I was getting.

2) MV looked like HD because it was HD, that's the way Michael Mann 
prefers to shoot, I don't know why.

3) I don't care, I'll use 35mm optics, 16mm optics or HD optics, it's a 
part of my job to understand and use whatever, if I can only cope with 
35mm lenses then I'm not very good at my job.

4) Agreed, although I think you'll find that the way people grade 
doesn't even make full use of the range available now!!

5) yeah right.

6) There was also the real buzz of being able to look at the images 
immediately, how often do you see groups of people looking at stills on 
a phone? all the time.

I agree that film is on it's way out, sad but true.

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Cheers

Geoff Boyle FBKS
Director of Photography
EU Based
www.cinematography.net/geoff