I got asked to photograph Ryan Gosling, Sandra Hüller, and some of the team behind @projecthailmary at the @griffithobservatory .
I was inspired by cinematographer @greigfraser_dp ’s work so I used real optical glass filters to match the look of the film.
I’ll have a full breakdown on how I captured these very soon!
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Production Assistant: @stephenseanford
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Cinematographer Jeff Cronenweth, ASC breaks down the @reddigitalcinema camera test he shot with David Fincher and @leonardodicaprio while filming THE SOCIAL NETWORK (2010)
We also chat about the progression of camera technology since then, and the new possibilities for storytelling now.
Ft. @cronenweth@impatrickt@reddigitalcinema
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Only Christopher Nolan would still do this. When you shoot on film, you have to use something called a digital intermediate, which is essentially a scan of the 35 millimeter film, or in this case, IMAX film, so you can put it into a computer and edit it like you would your TikToks or your videos for YouTube. But that’s not good enough for Christopher Nolan. So after they edit the movie in the computer, what he does is he takes all the information of the cuts and splices and everything they did in the computer, and then he has a team of actual physical film editors splice the film together. I really don’t know of any other filmmakers that are actually still cutting film on film physically. It’s really a wonderful way to retain the original image. What makes this truly incredible, though, is if you see The Odyssey in 70MM millimeter IMAX, you’re gonna watch an image that never touched a computer. You will be seeing a film that was captured on film, edited physically on film, and assembled, and then projected on film. Christopher Nolan, never change.
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Hollywood is doing something that actually makes me very happy. A fun little behind-the-scenes featurette just came out for the new Spider-Man movie, and you can see Spider-Man actually out on location in the streets of Manhattan being Spider-Man. Call me crazy, but I prefer movies that shoot on location, and it is only recently that shooting on location has even become a novel concept. It’s just so bloody expensive to shoot in a real space these days. But I think there’s another layer here that’s really interesting. Shooting on location also creates an incredible marketing opportunity for your movie. Right now, John Krasinski is shooting a new Quiet Place movie, also in New York, and obviously we live in a world where everyone has to share every experience that they’re having, and so when you see an actual movie being made, you take pictures, you take videos, you share it with everybody, and it is free publicity for that movie. Add in the layer that there is a strong, growing, loud population of people that are revolting against artificial intelligence and fake images, and you have a recipe for success. But if it ends up becoming a trend just so we can get this free publicity, I’m all for it. I think shooting on locations just makes movies better.
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This is what an expensive movie is supposed to look like. Usually when you see how much a movie costs to make, you think to yourself, “How in the hell did it cost $250 million to make that?” When I watched this new trailer for The Odyssey, I thought, “How did this only cost $250 million?” This thing looks like it cost a billion dollars to make. I don’t understand how any of this got made. These are real ships out in the ocean. That’s not a CGI ship. This dude just gets thrown into a tree. I’m sure there’s a visual effect here, but maybe he actually just got thrown into a tree. I have no idea. You’re shooting the entire thing on IMAX film cameras. You’re moving the camera left, right, and center. You got, like, 1,000 extras. I thought this stuff was impossible now. They are not cutting corners in this movie. I think they’re actually looking for corners to make it harder. But yeah, this is just, like, how an expensive movie is supposed to look and feel. This is the kind of movies that I grew up with in the ‘80s and ‘90s, into the 2000s. When a big blockbuster was coming out, this is what it felt like. This trailer is unbelievable, and I think the only thing that will top it is getting to see it in an IMAX theater.
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The most insane IMAX film strip I own.
This is a real IMAX film strip from the making of Star Wars. Let me explain. Back in 1996, there was an IMAX documentary released called Special Effects. There is no digital version of this. There was never a home release of Special Effects, and the only copy that I can find of it is this camcorder bootleg that is dubbed in French. This was an absolutely incredible IMAX documentary about the magic of movies, specifically at Industrial Light & Magic in the ‘90s. And it just so happens that while they were filming this documentary, George Lucas was about to release the special editions of the original Star Wars trilogy, which means there was a massive, huge, loud IMAX film camera capturing behind the scenes while they were at ILM creating all of these special effects. It’s so unfortunate that this is lost media because I remember seeing this as a kid at the Toronto Science Center and being blown away. I was able to source these film strips from a seller who happened to have a release print, I’m assuming, and that’s how I got these scans. This film strip is definitely one of my prized possessions now. I just think it’s a very cool piece of IMAX history, film history, and of course, Star Wars history.
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Resident Evil looks beautiful.
The way they shot this new Resident Evil movie is really interesting, and I’m gonna tell you why. Zach Cregger, the director and writer of Weapons and Barbarian, is back with a Resident Evil movie. This is a video game adaptation. And why I think this looks so good is I love how they’re using the third-person perspective from the video game. You, the viewer, are now watching someone play Resident Evil in the movie. A lot of this movie is, like, third person, you know? So w- there’s a steady cam following Austin, our actor, and it was really a dance between him and our camera operator. So I had a really wide lens, and we’re kinda over his shoulder, and so when he looks left, we, like, pivot around to look left, and when he looks right, we swing around and look right. So I really tried to incorporate just the visual language of the games. We also need to talk about the night scenes because they are gorgeous. For some reason, a lot of cinematographers these days are allergic to lighting night scenes. You can actually see what’s happening in these frames. The aesthetic of this movie makes a lot more sense when you realize Dariusz Wolski shot this, and he also shot Dark City. All in all, I just think this is a great-looking movie, and it looks like a lot of fun, and it really captures the energy of what it’s like to play a video game like Resident Evil. So I’m very hyped to see this movie, and I’m curious if you are, too.
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This is a really cool movie, and I’m upset that you probably haven’t seen it. The year is 1986, and five years before director Jonathan Demme and cinematographer Tak Fujimoto would make Silence of the Lambs, they made Something Wild. This is one of the best ‘80s movies of all time, and yes, that is a very young Jeff Daniels, and he plays a New York businessman who gets talked into skipping out on lunch by this mysterious, unpredictable woman played by none other than Melanie Griffith. The first half of this movie feels so warm and alive. It’s basically a classic ‘80s road trip film. Then Ray Liotta shows up. This film stops being a fun road trip comedy and becomes something genuinely terrifying. I also love watching a director’s filmography before their masterpiece, and so if you love Silence of the Lambs, I really think you’ll like this movie a lot. Also, Jeff Daniels is just amazing in this movie, and his fits are unreal. Thanks. So if you haven’t seen it, I definitely recommend finding it because this movie is Something Wild.
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moving stills with a large format cinema camera.
This camera captures a feeling that’s hard to describe. Watching the images it produces is reminiscent of how memories playback in your mind.
🎥 @fujifilmproduction GFX Eterna 55
lens: 50mm T1.0 @zhongyi.optics
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