#DOP Christopher Ripley (
@christopher.c.ripley ) takes us #behindthescenes of
@fontainesband music video, 'Starburster."
"[Director] Aube [Perrie] and I wanted to play with the concept of reality in a music video. He created an incredible treatment in which the reality of the music video bleeds over into the parallel realities of several other videos coming out for different artists, so the story of 'Starburster' exists beyond the bounds of a single music video.
Because of the fractured reality of the story, we wanted the cinematography to subvert the idea of how 'reality' is signified in cinema. We start the video off in a traditionally 'realist' styleâgrainy, drab, functionalist, and printed to Super16 film before switching formats into clean, colorful, high frame-rate, and digital.
We wanted the bulk of the music video to have a kind of classic, brutally functionalist, Alan Clarke, 'kitchen sink' look. We avoided super stylized colorâinstead, we wanted the piece to have the simple honesty of a documentary crew shooting on 16mm and making a photochemical release print. Whatâs funny is that we used a complex process to get there. We actually shot digitally, with a Super35 extraction on Alexa Mini LF, using #UltraSpeeds. We then printed to 50D 16mm film using Cinelabâs DFD process. The end result feels quite unique since we are taking something shot on a Super35 digital format and printing to 16mm. The depth of field feels more like 35mm, but the overall grain, acutance, gate weave, and resolving power feels like Super16. It becomes something a little uncanny, which I think works really nicely for the story.
I loved the idea of using American-made lenses for a UK project, referencing a UK director, for an incredible Irish band. This video is full of subversions, twists, and tricksâeven our Super16 documentary aesthetic was actually shot in digital Super35 format!
Panavision has always taken such great care of meâfrom larger commercials to tiny, inventive videos like this one. Theyâve been incredibly supportive to me in the US, UK, and even on a feature I recently shot in the desert, in South Africa."
![#DOP Christopher Ripley (@christopher.c.ripley) takes us #behindthescenes of @fontainesband music video, 'Starburster.""[Director] Aube [Perrie] and I wanted to play with the concept of reality in a music video. He created an incredible treatment in which the reality of the music video bleeds over into the parallel realities of several other videos coming out for different artists, so the story of 'Starburster' exists beyond the bounds of a single music video.Because of the fractured reality of the story, we wanted the cinematography to subvert the idea of how 'reality' is signified in cinema. We start the video off in a traditionally 'realist' styleâgrainy, drab, functionalist, and printed to Super16 film before switching formats into clean, colorful, high frame-rate, and digital.We wanted the bulk of the music video to have a kind of classic, brutally functionalist, Alan Clarke, 'kitchen sink' look. We avoided super stylized colorâinstead, we wanted the piece to have the simple honesty of a documentary crew shooting on 16mm and making a photochemical release print. Whatâs funny is that we used a complex process to get there. We actually shot digitally, with a Super35 extraction on Alexa Mini LF, using #UltraSpeeds. We then printed to 50D 16mm film using Cinelabâs DFD process. The end result feels quite unique since we are taking something shot on a Super35 digital format and printing to 16mm. The depth of field feels more like 35mm, but the overall grain, acutance, gate weave, and resolving power feels like Super16. It becomes something a little uncanny, which I think works really nicely for the story.I loved the idea of using American-made lenses for a UK project, referencing a UK director, for an incredible Irish band. This video is full of subversions, twists, and tricksâeven our Super16 documentary aesthetic was actually shot in digital Super35 format!Panavision has always taken such great care of meâfrom larger commercials to tiny, inventive videos like this one. Theyâve been incredibly supportive to me in the US, UK, and even on a feature I recently shot in the desert, in South Africa."](https://sp1.picnob.com/p/pt_6720667161523763424941_0_f57c3ed8a51d12cddce77433c53e37b3.jpg?o=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&h=317a8b0e1dd94c5e7ff53c9c7a6ed4a3)
