The project I’m yakin’ about like a excited child is … Paris!

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Well that’s all for now. I don’t know what it will be. I have some pictures, ideas but I didn’t think too much about it on purpose. I want to catch the character of the scene, the city, while I’m there and think there about the picture. Also I look forward doing this with my production partner Marko.

So my tickets are in front of me. March 13th till 16th, and after this 6 days of location scounting, subject finding, photographing, plot inventing, brainstorming, creating and creative writing I hopefully will be able to tell more about this project.

But what I CAN do here is to prepare the equipment. And get it. While thinking about my - btw first serious project, where I will be seriously directing - I decided that I want to go for a film look. And I don’t mean just the technical aspect, but from the feeling the footage should have to underline it’s artistic and technical level.

I would love to shoot in 16mm, being a film lover lately in photography. As executive producer (which means I dump the bucks for this project) for now, and since I would need a experienced camera operator for film I quickly searched for different solutions. Video is the only possible way to go for me on a mini crew. So a 35mm Adapter is the only solution. That’s basically a adapter you can mount on your video camera to attach film or photo lenses to it. Since the image plane is 35mm and the lenses due to their specs produce a short depth of field you get something which comes close to a film look. Close since there are many more things to consider. Like speed, color and there are certain new limitations. Biggest might be that you can only focus manually. Like shooting on film cameras.

There are many things to be tested. For now I was looking for the best affordable solution and came up with a set of Canon FD photo lenses, SGPro [..], a matte box imported from india, ohrwurm II as environment audio input device, X4 Tech Zelo M8 as monitoring solution (maybe instead a Grunding Davio7) and some gadgets here and there I will have to build.

I will have some intensive testing when I’m back from Paris, possibly the kit is complete by then. But that’s not what I’m concerned about.
I do care more about the suspense… will have to create green shit!
(will be explained in further posts )

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