Multimedia
Blogs
Forum
Affordable HD
Whitepapers
Newsletters
Events
Advertisers
Blogcast
MillimeterFast Baggage
Apr 1, 2004 12:00 PM, By Michael Goldman
When you have just 48 hours to make a short movie and less than $1,000, you generally have to take the equipment that's available, according to DP Ryan Sheridan. This past summer, Sheridan shot the six-minute film, Baggage, for writer/director Kent Nichols as part of the 48 Hour Film Project — a contest judging films produced in just two days. The short, a fantasy about a woman who ponders her past relationships — literally stored in a suitcase under her bed — won the contest's national prize in March.
As it turned out, the available acquisition equipment was a Panasonic AG-DVX100 MiniDV three-CCD camcorder.
“We wanted multiple frame rates because the story has fantasy sequences and reality sequences, and we decided to illustrate the fantasy in temporal fashion, rather than with effects, so the reality stuff was 60fps interlaced, and the fantasy world was 24p,” explains Sheridan.
Sheridan adds that audio was “as run-and-gun as it gets” — a Sennheiser ME 66 shotgun mic coming directly out of the camera and monitored over headphones. Lighting was mostly what director Nichols calls Sheridan's “home-brew kit — hanging Home Depot lights on shower curtain rods and things,” but the project did rent a couple of Kino Flo 4×2s and two open-faced 650 PARs as well.
The piece was edited by Dave Dayen on a Final Cut Pro 3 system on a scene-by-scene basis at Dr. Rawstock, Hollywood, which donated an edit bay to the project.
Continue the discussion on “Crosstalk” the Millimeter Forum.