ANTE SHOOT – Diary of a DoP
HELLO…….. Eugene here DoP of “Ante” just wrapped filming a matter of hours ago and still feeling the buzz of the last few days. It went really well over all, new cameras and new techniques where needed for this one, so we all brought our freshly bought 7Ds and got things rolling. Three camera set up, we shot most things in sequence and it really got things moving in the production stage. Chris wanted really crisp images with shallow depth so it really had to be the 7D route.
The shots filmed were very well planned and storyboarded so it was very easy to follow chirs’s ideas through to filming the scenes. From a work point of view it was just really nice to be working on a well written screenplay that I could sink my teeth into and experiement with in camera techniques. Everyone was on fire for the majority of the shoot and I would like to hand it to JR (Lighting DP) & Sam (Camera assistant) keeping my shots looking awesome.
I’m not the greatest role model so I smoke and stay up late, as does the Hitman on this film with whom i enjoyed enjoyed the odd cigarette so a big thanks to the man with the lion face. Favorite shot: pan up from tie to Tom’s face, so NICE. As the rabbit says that’s all folks.
EUGENE
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Was good working with you all.
Hope you enjoyed the experience. For my part it helped having a good story. Good start that. And I don’t do student films or that many short films anymore because the director is usually ‘confused’ in thinking that the film is made in the edit for the most part. This leads to scant concern about the story and performances, more emphasis on the look.
Glad to say this wasn’t the case on this. Chris really wanted the film to work from beginning to end. A breath of fresh air! So now he has loads of good stuff to work with post shoot.
Ham baps were a life saver. Should of checked if I was Jewish though ;0)
Finally, like everyone else I think Greg is beautiful too! I can’t stop looking at his stills.
Should not have wrote this with only 4 hours sleep.
Eugene, sometimes that’s the best time TO write – when sleep-deprived.