Hi there,

Sunday 17 may 2009 we shot the short film "The Rehearsel" in 10 hours.

Lighting the set, set up sound and camera and shot it all for greenscreen.

The little studio of still photographer Manon van der Zwaal was lit with only tungsten light. 1x 2K blonde voor the green screen, 1x redhead for the backlight, 2x lupo lights for the keylight and 1x 500watt fresnell with frost as a eye light.

greenscreen set in a small still photo studio

When shooting with a RED ONE camera, who is from nature a 5000 Kelvin cmos camera, the best thing to do with tungsten is to use a 80C (blue camera filter) to bring the 3200 kelvin tungsten light up to 5000 kelvin. It wil cost you 1 stop of light.I also used a shutterspeed of 1/100 and that also cost us a stop of light.  The greensreen was lit the same way i was used to do this with film 1/2 to 3/4 lower in the lightlevel as my key light. In this case my greensreen was f5.6+ on 320ASA and my keylight was f8- on 320ASA.  (catched light). So the stop on the lens was set to  f4-.

Carlijn seen in the mirrorframe with in the background the green screen.

I shot the background with my canon 5D in my own bathroom. Not a movie but a 20 megapixel still. So we could blurr or zoom in at the still as much as we want in releation with the lens i am using on the R1.

Some of the footage i shot with the Canon 5D mark II are also going to be used in the greenscreen. This are the shots we made without permission.

The next foto is just a test, so don't hang me on color, dept of field or anything else, its jus a test to show you how excellent the R1 keys in 4K with a 80C filter/tungsten combination.

Carlijn seen in the mirror frame with in the background the bathroom picture.

Every single hair is here to be seen. i show you also the picture of the bathroom witch is used for this background.

clear still-picture bathroom shot with Canon 5D mark II

I made a lot of different stills of the bathroom because we where also in front of the mirror in a overshoulder shot of Carlijn. S we also used the green screen there and that was de major reason why we put our mirror frame on wheels so we could turn it around and keep the greescreen on its place.

Carlijn in front of a real mirror with the reflection the greenscreen.

I will be back when we have more to see and to tell you all about the postproduction of this short film. Post is with adobe cs3/cs4 and aftereffects.

with kind regards Robert

More info at:  http://www.the-rehearsal.com/

 Hi everybody,

Today, saterday 16 may of 2009 we started to build the set of "The Rehearsel".

While Roy Jacobs (our director) and Carlijn (our star) are  rehearsing "The Rehearsel" ,Manon (our still photographer and owner of the still photography studio) and i start building with Manon the one and only real piece of set.

Manon and Robert at work.

For the first time in my life i'am building the set witch i'm going to shoot in. Its gives me a nice feeling. To night i shot with my 5D still pictures of my bathroom, that wil be used to fill the greenscreen later as a  background of the set.

Robert captive in the mirror.

 This picture is not a reflection of me in the mirror, thats imposble, i'm standing behind the mirror frame. The part witch is white behind me will be a greescreen where we can put everything we like.

Some times there is only glas in the frame, other times there wil be real mirror glas inside and we have to turn the mini set around.

So we buid the mirrorset on wheels so that we don't have to to move around with the greenscreen. The keylights for Carlijn will be fixed on our miniset and turn arround with it.

mini mirrorset on wheels.

Now i'm going to sleep, because tomorrow i have to light this set and shoot a beautiful movie.

More info at: http://www.the-rehearsal.com/

See you after the shoot tomorrow!

Robert

Sorry that it took so long to come back to you, but here i am again.

In the mean time i worked with producer Wim Lehnhausen and director Iwan Cviko, And Company at the 48h Amsterdam contest. We shot the 7 minut movie with 2 RED ONE'S with leading role actor Waldemar Torenstra. Second Unit cameraman was Rolf Deken NSC. In a later blog i will tell you more about this adventure. Here is a framegrabe from one of the scene's. 

We are just 10 days away from the moment we are going to shoot 'The Rehearsel'

We are going to shoot almost the hole movie in front of a greenscreen because  all the badrooms we saw where to small for the things we want to do.                   Some othe shots you are going to see are picture in picture and so we shot some footage with de Canon 5D mark II .The reason was that i had to shoot at a place where i should have had to hire company of one of the workers there for safety reasons, it would cost us about 800 euro and for a 5 sec shot it would be crazy. With the "small 5D" i did the shot from the hip and was gone in 60 seconds. No harm done and everybody happy! Sorry that for securety reasons i can not tell more about this and you see it in the film later.

This film is going to be shot in a aspect ratio of 2.40:1 The R1 camera has a 16:9 chip so we have to put in the post some blackwipes to get to the 2.40:1 aspect ratio. You can see it here in the clip i shot with Pam Feather.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i01ed9U5qKU

Her is a example how we shot it , no color correction!

From 16:9 made in aspect ratio 2.40:1 and  a litle change of color

This aspect ratio is what you see most of the time in the cinema's It give you as a DoP more possibility's to use the less Debt of Field for guiding your audience to look at the place where you want them to look at. There is in this video clip some examples to see.

Tomorrow i am going to buy a mirror and special glas we are going to use in our film. In the next blog i'l tell you more about it.

take a look at our improved website and buy a dvd to support us!

http://www.the-rehearsal.com

Make up artist Annetje Capitain preparing Carlijn foor the photoshoot.

Before we start shooting this film on the Red One camera, we had to make some still pictures wich will be used in the film.

We did not only used the 5D mark II but also a small canon consumer camera with a flash. We made consumer like pictures with it and they will used on the edges from the mirror, when we are shooting the film.

We had a lot of fun that day, changing clothes all the time and trying to make reallife  pictures of two lovers on different holidays.

Still Photographer Manon van der Zwaal sitting between all the clothes we used.

 All that kind of photo's where shot with a white background so that we  could replacet the white later in photoshop (done by Roy Jacobs, our writer/ director)for another scenery, like mountains, beach or any place in the world. The consumer flash helps us to make it more real and wil cover up the matte mask we have to make for the new background. So we also did not have to worry about the light conditions of the replaced backgrounds. You understand, these pictures will be only visible in the movie.

Carlijn.........

This weekend I will shoot some HD footage with my  5D still camera. This moving pictures will be used as a special effect in our film. The 5D has a frame rate of 30fps and that could be a problem with the sound. We shoot the film in 25p with the Red One and the 5D footage will only be used as a background. So we luckely don't have to use the sinc sound of the 5D.We slomo the 5D footage down to 25P.

Soon more about the sneaky shooting I have to make with this still camera. Tell you next time about the aspect ratio we going to film in and the diffulculty's of shooting greensreen shots in a (small white) bathroom.

Yo can already visit our website at:http://www.the-rehearsal.com

bye

After being a gaffer (chief of the lightcrew) for some years, I wanted to be a cameraman. So I sold myself as a lighting cameraman. In 1992 I shot the feature film “Liefde in Ritme” regie Guus van Waveren on 16mm film. After that I worked most of the time for small commercials, , videoclips (mostly shot on 16mm), documentary’s and a lot of coporate films on video and sometimes 16mm film.

After several years (I must be 80 now) I was confronted with HD and digital cinema. Shooting short drama films on Panasonic and Sony HD camera’s. I realy loved it. It Started with a Sony 1 inch HD camera conected to a truck (the recorder and everything around it was so big) shooting a documentary about dead musicians (Beethoven, Shuman and so on) travelling through Europe for a month. Super sharp images and completly onworkeble!!...... Everything changes in live for better and for worse, with HD it was getting better and soon there where camera’s where you realy easely can work with.

To make a long story short, I bought myself a RED ONE camera and thats the camera where I going to film “The Reahersal” with!

Next time I will tell you everything about the the first still-pictures we have made and sneaky filming on a canon 5D markII for the preparing of this short film.

bye