View Full Version : Onfilm July 2007 Crossing the Line Exclusive
Scott Webster
07-19-2007, 04:27 PM
Zane Holmes ( a Kiwi version of Mike Curtis) has done an incredible article on the making of Crossing the Line for our local screen industry magazine, Onfilm (http://www.onfilm.co.nz/).
I wish I could post the cover shot (maybe Jim can as he is the credited with the photo) which pictures the Red One prototype with the Optimo 12x Zoom and the rest of the rig held together by a scaff pipe cage, bungy cords and tie downs!
Reading the article it is truly impressive what Red, Peter Jackson and Park Road managed to achieve. Even Steven Spielberg is quoted as being amazed at what they accomplished in 2 days.
Robert Mott
07-19-2007, 05:04 PM
Not able to see the article that you are talking about. Could you post a link.
Chris Gearhart
07-19-2007, 05:08 PM
Yeah, I would love to see it!
Scott Webster
07-19-2007, 05:12 PM
Sorry, the article is a hard copy in the magazine.There is no online link.
Red may be able to get permission to publish extracts and photos online but I cannot. I understand some have ordered copies of the magazine previously when the Peter Jackson interview was published.
Keith Alan Morris
07-19-2007, 05:38 PM
Doh!
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Brook Willard
07-19-2007, 06:06 PM
"Onfilm," eh?
Scott Webster
07-19-2007, 06:08 PM
OK good news. I've been in touch with the publishers and due to various copyright issues I can't throw up the cover...but Onfilm are going to throw up the cover shot and a pdf of the article on 23 July (NZ) on their website
www.onfilm.co.nz (http://www.onfilm.co.nz)
Gavin Greenwalt
07-19-2007, 06:46 PM
due to various copyright issues I can't throw up the cover...
You mean this cover?
http://www.onfilm.co.nz/July07BIG.jpg
http://www.onfilm.co.nz/July07BIG.jpg
Scott Webster
07-19-2007, 06:57 PM
Errr yes! the current cover shown on the site is the June issue that links through to the July edition :usd:
Chris Gearhart
07-19-2007, 07:00 PM
Heh heh. Naughty Gavin. So much for throwing up.
Or maybe July 23 (NZ) is July 19 (US). The exchange rate has gone crazy.
Gavin Greenwalt
07-19-2007, 07:01 PM
Hehe. I can't be held responsible for what they put up on their own front page.
The link said "Click here to see the current issue" and despite a deceptive thumbnail... they followed through on the promise. ;)
Tim Bradley
07-19-2007, 07:10 PM
Hi I can't find the link to the article ... Anyone help ?
Thanks, Tim.
Gavin Greenwalt
07-19-2007, 07:12 PM
No link to the article yet. Just the cover.
Tom Lowe
07-19-2007, 08:02 PM
You mean this cover?
http://www.onfilm.co.nz/July07BIG.jpg
http://www.onfilm.co.nz/July07BIG.jpg
OH MY FUCKING GOD......... :w00t:
Yash Keough
07-19-2007, 08:19 PM
Wheewh! That is one shaweeeeet shot! :D Loves it :P. Ahhhh, precioussssss ;). The news on RED just keeps getting better and better! Definitely an exciting time for filmmakers!
C.H.Haskell
07-19-2007, 08:35 PM
That Optimo is a monster, I did not realize PJ's short had so much glass involved. Hope my RED zoom holds up in comparison, and I am sure it will. ;)
Chris Forbes
07-19-2007, 08:40 PM
To coin a phrase.
Wow I just got a chubby....
Scott Webster
07-19-2007, 08:42 PM
That Optimo is a monster, I did not realize PJ's short had so much glass involved. Hope my RED zoom holds up in comparison, and I am sure it will. ;)
Cooke S4's
Zeiss Stds
18-70mm Optimo Zoom
24-290mm Optimo Zoom
Casey Green
07-19-2007, 09:05 PM
Even Steven Spielberg is quoted as being amazed at what they accomplished in 2 days.
Oh, now THAT is gonna be the quote of the century.
Finner
07-19-2007, 10:52 PM
That is one frankensteined camera. Looks like the used everything but the kitchen sink to make the prototypes workable.
Before people jump all over me for saying that I am actually saying a possitive thing. If PJ and his crew can do as much as they did with such rough prototype work around equipment imagine what we will be able to do with the elegant refined red accessories.
Jannard
07-19-2007, 11:25 PM
All we took were "Boris" and "Natasha" and a couple of drives. They rigged everything else. Peter's team is VERY resourceful.
Jim
donatello b
07-19-2007, 11:32 PM
and don't forget this shot
http://www.reduser.net/forum/uploaded/153_1184913103.jpg
Sam Druckerman
07-20-2007, 12:09 AM
and don't forget this shot
http://www.reduser.net/forum/uploaded/153_1184913103.jpg
Ahhhh! That Red is too close to the ground for my comfort level.
Clearly, I have no idea... Are those rigs always set up, what....... six inches from the ground?
It's looks like a small pilot error on take off or landing and ouch.
Jim, tell the truth... were you holding your breath?
laguun
07-20-2007, 05:01 AM
18-70mm Optimo Zoom
24-290mm Optimo Zoom
i have a soft spot for the angenieux zooms as well, we have the 5.3-53, 7.8-208 and the 25-250 in use since years and are -really- happy with them.
however, if you want some really extreme, how about this little angenieux:
15-1200mm, 15x40
PaulClements
07-20-2007, 05:37 AM
Interesting to see Peter Jacksons crew use Sachtler, can anyone tell which head that is? Maybe one of the older Studios?
Scott Webster
07-20-2007, 12:58 PM
Interesting to see Peter Jacksons crew use Sachtler, can anyone tell which head that is? Maybe one of the older Studios?
It's a Sachtler Studio 80, 150mm bowl mount on Ronford heavy duty legs.
Sachtler is more common here than the O'Connor.
Jay A. Kelley
07-20-2007, 04:30 PM
I can hardly wait to see this article.
Jay
dalemccready
07-20-2007, 05:23 PM
but we're sick of the sachtler's we have. They just need more tweaking. Oconnors have swept NZ in the last couple of years.
Mike Devlin
07-20-2007, 09:16 PM
i have a soft spot for the angenieux zooms as well, we have the 5.3-53, 7.8-208 and the 25-250 in use since years and are -really- happy with them.
however, if you want some really extreme, how about this little angenieux:
15-1200mm, 15x40
That 40X15 is a 2/3" lens. When we were purchasing long lenses a little less than a year ago we tested the Angenieux 40x11 and 40x15, the Canon 40x10 and 40x14, and the Fujinon 42x9.7 and 42x13.5. We found the Fujinon 's to have the best resolution and least CA. The Angenieux was a close second and it is an excellent lens, but not quite the resolution of the Fujinon, especially when stopped down to f8.
We purchased both the Fujinon 42x9.7 (my favorite) and the 42x13.5. We have been getting stunning images from the Fujinon's. Of course some folks prefer Canon glass or Angenieux, but based on direct head-to-head testing and then shooting over 400 HDCAM SR tapes to date with the Fujinon's I would not use anything else.
Remember that 1200mm in a 2/3" lens is equivalent to roughly 3000mm for a 35mm lens. That would be a big lens in 35mm format. And believe me at those focal lengths you want the greatest depth of field possible. Tracking focus on a moving target (wildlife in our case) from a moving platform (helicopter or boat with Cineflex gimbal) at those extreme focal lengths in natural lighting (or lack thereof) is interesting.
Don Woods
07-21-2007, 04:07 PM
that is so nice... I want one of them...
Scott Webster
07-21-2007, 05:03 PM
Not able to see the article that you are talking about. Could you post a link.
Article now online, see this thread
http://www.reduser.net/forum/showthread.php?t=3332
Emanuel A.
07-21-2007, 10:38 PM
Thanks man.