View Full Version : "HAWKE" Screening on Channel 10 soon
Cail Young
06-24-2010, 01:25 AM
"HAWKE", the Bob Hawke bio-drama-telemovie is airing on Channel Ten soon.
Shot by Graeme Wood on our RED ONEs with Cooke S4/i primes.
Flash-based extremely low quality teaser is HERE (http://ten.com.au/video-player.htm?channel=Ten+Featured+Videos&clipid=1427_geo-hawke-2min1stlook&bitrate=300&format=flash).
Trevor Emmerson
06-24-2010, 01:48 AM
best pm ever! looks awesome
jimhare
06-24-2010, 03:44 AM
Fantastic! I'll watch out for it in Sydney.
Wonder what he thinks about what happened today...
Jim
jimhare
06-24-2010, 03:47 AM
Just watched the trailer. Looks freaking amazing!
Sean Lee
06-24-2010, 08:27 PM
I saw the clip on TV earlier this week, images looked great! But seriously, I initially thought 'Hawke' was a skit for a comedy show when I first saw it, especially the part when the overly-dramatic Hollywood blockbuster soundtrack paused and the actor who played 'Paul Keating' said in hushed overly-dramatic tones:
"You will pick a date... and you will stand down..."
...and then a big Carmina Burana-style apocalyptic choir roars in with an even bigger Hollywood blockbuster soundtrack. I almost expected the walls to crumble down and an epic John Woo gun battle to break out between Keating and Hawke at that point.
I look forward to watching it though, hoping the actual tone of the movie is different from what's portrayed in the trailer. One of my all-time favourite Australian movies was The Dish in which Graeme Wood was the DoP.
Cail Young
06-28-2010, 06:14 PM
The trailer is designed, i think, to bring in audiences who aren't directly interested in the history and rather would like to watch something really dramatic.
Fortunately the show itself is a fair bit less OTT than that.
Joe D'Arcy
06-28-2010, 07:03 PM
Hi Cail, I'm looking forward to seeing Hawke, he was a great PM. At least in the early days. Trailer looks great.
Michael Brennan
07-13-2010, 06:58 AM
Trailer looks good, good luck I'll be watching,
Mike Brennan
Cail Young
07-15-2010, 12:49 AM
HAWKE screens this Sunday at 8:30 PM.
Joe D'Arcy
07-15-2010, 05:19 AM
HAWKE screens this Sunday at 8:30 PM.
'Hawke' is replacing 'the Good wife.' History repeating itself.
Sean Lee
07-15-2010, 06:30 AM
'Hawke' is replacing 'the Good wife.' History repeating itself.
haha!:lol::lol::lol:
im from the UK and really would like to watch it, iv tried channel 10's website, but it would not allow me because im not from australia, so if anyone knows where i can watch it online, please let me know, thanks :)
Cail Young
07-18-2010, 11:58 PM
You might have to wait until a DVD release; I don't know if it's been sold overseas.
Fred Nielssen
07-19-2010, 12:12 AM
There where moments where I wished they would ND the windows and some exteriors that called for a graduate ND, there was a bit too much clipping in the highlights (nothing against red... it might have been clipped out on film too) I also thought that it was perhaps a bit too high key and soft in lighting but over all it was nice looking (still I prefer the ABC telemovie - Three Acts Of Murder, shot on '18 and I think '01 but then again I know the director so I'm a bit partial)
I think this particular film was shot on the camera package owned by Inspiration Studios (I'd like to say because I saw the Cook S4 - used on "Lowdown" and "Vand Deimon's Land" but honestly I checked the credits) But an S4 on a steadicam :( (oh well a friend of mine had to survivie a BL2 with a very old anamorphic zoom so I guess a red w/an S4 is nothing...)
Joe D'Arcy
07-19-2010, 04:24 AM
Hi Cail,
Watched 'Hawke' last night with my family and a friend. It was very well done all round. The lead actors were very convincing as well. Congrats to the team.
Regards,
Joe
Cail Young
07-19-2010, 06:56 AM
There where moments where I wished they would ND the windows and some exteriors that called for a graduate ND, there was a bit too much clipping in the highlights (nothing against red... it might have been clipped out on film too) I also thought that it was perhaps a bit too high key and soft in lighting but over all it was nice looking
That's a discussion to have with Graeme Wood. I know there was some concern in preproduction about high key and backlit scenes but after the first few scenes through rushes we weren't concerned about keeping everything in the grade. Bear in mind that they may not have wanted to see outside in certain locations due to cheating the geography.
I think this particular film was shot on the camera package owned by Inspiration Studios (I'd like to say because I saw the Cook S4 - used on "Lowdown" and "Vand Deimon's Land" but honestly I checked the credits)
I think you're right :) We didn't supply Lowdown but it was a RED show. Van Diemen's Land was supplied by us, yes.
But an S4 on a steadicam :( (oh well a friend of mine had to survivie a BL2 with a very old anamorphic zoom so I guess a red w/an S4 is nothing...)
The steadicam rig would have been using CF cards and a clipon mattebox, so total mass on the rig would have been around 8kg (17.5lbs) - on par with any 35mm rig.
John Brawley
07-19-2010, 04:12 PM
I think this particular film was shot on the camera package owned by Inspiration Studios (I'd like to say because I saw the Cook S4 - used on "Lowdown" and "Vand Deimon's Land" but honestly I checked the credits) But an S4 on a steadicam :( (oh well a friend of mine had to survivie a BL2 with a very old anamorphic zoom so I guess a red w/an S4 is nothing...)
Lowdown wasn't shot with s4s aside from only a few shots. *We had a Cooke 15-40 t2 zoom on most of the time. *The camera package was also ex Lemac.
Most primes are fine with RED. *I'm currently shooting Offspring and we use a fair bit of Steadicam. *Our Steadicam lens is the little known but very lightweight 17-35 Canon / Century.
The main issue isn't so much the weight as that the red is a very LONG camera with a higher center of gravity and it makes some Steadicam moves a bit harder.
I missed out on seeing Hawke but everyones been talking it up.
jb
Shane Betts
07-19-2010, 09:42 PM
Congratulations Cail and all the cast and crew. It looked great and rated its arse off. Roxburgh was awesome, as usual.
jimhare
07-19-2010, 10:49 PM
Just watched it. Really well done from all points of view. I noticed the ND stuff but who cares, it's an artistic decision and it did make it feel very 1991, when windows weren't tinted to the degree they are now.
I would love to know about the post process. It has a great look and I would like to know the steps they took to get from R3Ds to the final.
Jim
Cail Young
07-20-2010, 03:41 AM
I would love to know about the post process. It has a great look and I would like to know the steps they took to get from R3Ds to the final.
In broad strokes:
Redrushes to Prores 1080 overnight.
Sync with sound and multiclips in FCP (my chump job :)
Edit.
Locked edit comes in as XML to Monkey Extract, export DPXs, import into Color and grade from DPX. As Hawke was Build 17 there was some LUT work required to simplify grading.
Mastered to HDCAM with Dolby E sound for the network - the files and grading data exists to make an HDCAM SR master but nobody wanted one.
The Red Rocket has changed how we work now, but that was the path then.
jimhare
07-20-2010, 03:51 AM
Thanks Cail!
Are you telling me that was graded in Color and mastered to tape without any further processing?
It looks fantastic!
Who did the grade?
Jim
Sean Lee
07-20-2010, 06:04 AM
Just watched it. Really well done from all points of view. I noticed the ND stuff but who cares, it's an artistic decision and it did make it feel very 1991, when windows weren't tinted to the degree they are now.
I didn't get to watch it, just managed to catch bits and pieces at the start while juggling something else but I agree with what you said here. What I did see seemed to be an artistic decision to make it look appropriate for the period, for nostalgic purposes which I thought was fitting.
Fred Nielssen
07-21-2010, 12:18 AM
Most of the time I thought that yes, the nice bright windows certainly gave a nice textured but soft light, and some could argue that it was a style decision with it adding to the period look (heck it would have been hard to get permission to ND the windows of Kiriabilly house ect. with the standard "sprite and squeegee") there was however one scene where Hazel Hawke looks out the window and we see open white, this would have been fine had it not been that we are ment to be able to see Bobs Grandfather. Oh well... it was only a small part of the film and the couple of scenes with clipped out windows certainly didnt take away from what was otherwise a very good piece of television - I wish other shows on channel ten looked this good, it's kinda sad when it can be argued that Masterchef looks nicer than Rush...
Cail Young
07-21-2010, 01:16 AM
Thanks Cail!
Are you telling me that was graded in Color and mastered to tape without any further processing?
It looks fantastic!
Who did the grade?
Jim
I'm 99% sure it was rendered out from Color and laid down to tape in FCP. Will check tomorrow.
Marcus Smith at Blue Post graded it, and he is also handling Offspring (as mentioned by John a few posts ago) and some episodes of Rush (shot on F900) :)
John Brawley
07-21-2010, 04:01 AM
- I wish other shows on channel ten looked this good, it's kinda sad when it can be argued that Masterchef looks nicer than Rush...
If only TEN actually screened HD. They only screen SD. Their HD channel is sports only......
jb
Cail Young
07-21-2010, 05:37 PM
If only TEN actually screened HD. They only screen SD. Their HD channel is sports only......
jb
It really sucks. ABC have made the same mistake with News 24
Fred Nielssen
07-22-2010, 03:30 AM
Though if I had to choose, I'd rather watch high quality beautiful SD content - with time/effort/*money* put into lighting/grading than than ugly crap HD for the sake of being HD content with minimal effort put into it (those 16mm bbc documentaries from the 90s/early 00s where beautiful, meanwhile some of these new nature docos, being marketed for being shot in HD and therefor beautiful** are absolute crap...) But then you shouldn't really have to choose between one or the other - I have no idea why 1HD, a channel with less than 2% of the audience share gets to be in HD while the standard 10 with 10x the viewers doesn't, maybe sports sell better when in HD (anyway 1 HD is basically xtreme poker, paintball, slamball, reruns of games played in the 90s....)
Cail Young
07-22-2010, 06:48 AM
Though if I had to choose, I'd rather watch high quality beautiful SD content - with time/effort/*money* put into lighting/grading than than ugly crap HD for the sake of being HD content with minimal effort put into it
Thing is, much like Hawke, a lot of that beautiful SD content is actually HD content being downscaled for broadcast.