At the weekend we had a technical run-through of my short A Martian Eclipse (the shoot is scheduled for the first weekend in December). Once again we reviewed the need to use the Red Rock M2 film effect filter (see last year’s blogs for A Question Of Content), but this time connected to Jack Marshall’s new HD 1080p camera. The camera itself is tiny (due to the lack of moving parts) but very effective (having been used on the shoot for the feature film Crank series when multi-cameras were required during action sequences) and it comes with a “cinema” setting to give a “glaze” to the digital footage. As we are filming in a relatively small space we don’t really need the depth of field offered by the M2, so for all but one shot will be using the tiny camera alone! This also has the advantage that we don’t have to deal with a large rig for the point of view set-ups.
Sound was also an issue and we have decided to purchase a better quality mike for AME.
Running through the script, from the technical perspective, also revealed some changes we could make to the script which will improve the filmic effect of the story, so we are almost set to go.... watch this space!
PS: Many thanks to Jack and Diane Williams for the weekend's work.
