WTR in Paris 23-26 June: MB, FF & lenses

[Carl Dieker]

Bon soir!

We are shooting a music video with a well known French singer this week but have just found out that gear we asked for couldn't be rented out to us without a major setback to our budget.

We are bringing our own red but would like to rent a set of PL primes, FF/matte box (19mm rails), one streak filter, one black promise 0,5 (or 0,3) and soft 0,5 (or 0,3) plus a couple of NDs and an IR.

The record company in Paris tried to rent the lenses, MB and FF but the renting house/houses requested that we also rent a RED from them. Otherwise no deal. Very messy for us but not a big surprise since I have experienced similar protectionist moves here in Sweden (Mantis, field colomation gear, etc). We could rent a Red from them but we rather put our money elsewhere in the production.

The equipment will be rented through the French record label. If you know of some rental house our a private rental that will rent us lenses, FF, MB and filters, please pm me tonight. We are leaving tomorrow.

Merci,

Calle

PS: The record company have rented reds before so they didn't anticipate a problem renting film gear without Red.

[Carl Dieker]

If you read this and have a possibility to help us out, you could contact me directly through text message on my cell until 12 tomorrow noon the 23rd of June:

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Cheers,

Calle

[Carl Dieker]

PS: As I mentioned before, both the artist and the record company are well known in France. The latter will do the booking in their name and do the pick up plus vouche for the director's and his crew's (me + DoP) trustworthiness.

[Carl Dieker]

There is still time to make contact.