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Articles Tagged with "Red"

Top 5 Directors Doing Digital Cinema Filmmaking the Right Way

Top 5 Directors Doing Digital Cinema Filmmaking the Right Way

by Evan LuziIndustry News

  • 8

I want to highlight five directors who have taken the digital format and utilized it for their films, often optimizing the ability of the digital format and taking advantage of it’s pros to deliver a polished product. Each of the five directors listed below shot one or more films using digital cinema cameras and in the process, was breaking new technical ground in the film industry.

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RED One Menu Map

RED ONE Menu Map (Build 21 + Build 30) *UPDATED*

by Evan LuziToolkit

  • 5

The RED ONE is essentially a computer disguised as a camera and so it has quite a complex set of menus to navigate. Here to save the day is the menu map, a clever graphical configuration of the Red One’s menus

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Camera Reports on Back of Slate

RED ONE Camera Reports Download

by Evan LuziToolkit

  • 16

When I was doing prep-work as 1st AC on “Red Herring,” shot on the RED ONE, I went ahead and created Red specific camera reports. The document was created out of a variety of different types of camera reports I had seen. The result was a template that enabled easy marking of traditional notes (lens, f-stop, etc.) as well as Red-specific meta-data.

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“Red Herring” Official Trailer

by Evan LuziIndustry News

  • 1

“Red Herring” is a Las Vegas based independent film produced by Cohencidence Productions that I worked on back in October as the First Assistant Camera for a talented cinematographer and good friend, Kunitaro Ohi. It’s a film that’s shoot was as grueling as it was rewarding – nothing worth doing comes easy, I suppose.

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My Summer as a Camera Assistant: 'Ghosts Don't Exist' Pre-Production

My Summer as a Camera Assistant: ‘Ghosts Don’t Exist’ Pre-Production

by Evan LuziProduction Stories

  • 12

The following story is the first in a series of entries exploring Evan’s experience with his first job on a film set working as the 2nd Assistant Camera for “Ghosts Don’t Exist.” The series is divided into three parts: Pre-Production, Production and Aftermath. The “My Summer as a Camera Assistant” series will expand longer to the other films that Evan worked on.

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