Hello all,
So i'm directing a feature this spring/summer called 'Wilderness'. It is a low/micro budget thriller with almost exclusively exterior locations. We're planning on shooting on a 200,000 acre estate in the north west of Scotland as its the only place in the UK with suitable wilderness. This will mean a small crew and we may need to walk to locations as they will often be completely inaccessible via road. Because of this we were considering shooting on DSLR, however we will have a fair amount of action and quick movements (running through the woods etc) which were worried the DSLRs wouldn't be up to the job with the rolling shutter 'jello effect' problems. We however also have access to 2 Sony AX-2000 so i was wondering what you thought about my idea of using the DLSRs (550d, 60d & 5d) for all the non action stuff which would obviously be the majority of the film and then using the Sony AX 2000 for all the action scenes to solve this problem. Do you think this would cause HUGE problems in the edit? Is it viable especially as the AX2000 records in AVCHD?
If it were it would be hugely helpful as lugging around DSLR kit is a lot more appealing in the wild when walking to locations as opposed to lugging full film gear.
What do you guys think? Is this worth suggesting to the DOP?
Cheers guys!
So i'm directing a feature this spring/summer called 'Wilderness'. It is a low/micro budget thriller with almost exclusively exterior locations. We're planning on shooting on a 200,000 acre estate in the north west of Scotland as its the only place in the UK with suitable wilderness. This will mean a small crew and we may need to walk to locations as they will often be completely inaccessible via road. Because of this we were considering shooting on DSLR, however we will have a fair amount of action and quick movements (running through the woods etc) which were worried the DSLRs wouldn't be up to the job with the rolling shutter 'jello effect' problems. We however also have access to 2 Sony AX-2000 so i was wondering what you thought about my idea of using the DLSRs (550d, 60d & 5d) for all the non action stuff which would obviously be the majority of the film and then using the Sony AX 2000 for all the action scenes to solve this problem. Do you think this would cause HUGE problems in the edit? Is it viable especially as the AX2000 records in AVCHD?
If it were it would be hugely helpful as lugging around DSLR kit is a lot more appealing in the wild when walking to locations as opposed to lugging full film gear.
What do you guys think? Is this worth suggesting to the DOP?
Cheers guys!