Here is some test footage from Michael Plescia. It looks like a 1970's gangster movie. Some don't like this type of look. It is graded with "grain" and is certainly not "Video Sharp". I happen to love it. Can't wait to buy a Digital Bolex!
The new Blackmagic Pocket Cinema Camera is a RAW-shooting body that will fit into your pocket. Who could of ever imagined even 3 years ago, that you could buy a camera that fits in the palm of your hand and can take hi resolution video with depth of field that rivals anything that cost 100K plus back when this digital video became a real alternative to film. In July you can buy this camera for 995 dollars. Check this out!
Roberto Miller, writer and director shot his indie film, "Mandorla" with 2 Panasonic GH2's and a LOMO anamorphic lense and the results are amazing. We talk a lot about technology and how it has affected the indie film maker's ability to make films that ascetically look like a Hollywood Production. When talking about this subject, we always make sure to state that having great cameras at an affordable price is huge step forward, BUT the film maker still needs to have that MOST important ingredient called "Talent". Well this Roberto Miller certainly appears to have talent, if the trailer is any indication. Check out this trailer. Remember.....he shot this with a GH2. Yes, with also an amazing lens....but still, he used a $649 camera
Finally a great movie about being in a rock and roll band. Those of you who have followed my bog, know that I wrote a screenplay in 2009 about a kid in a rock and roll band that takes place in the early 70's when rock and roll decadence was still "politically correct". I never got my screen play even read by the right people, let alone made into a movie. So in some ways, seeing a movie about what happens when a group of young kids get together and make a rock band.....is kinda of disheartening. Only because that magic that seems to happen when the band is really locked in and playing for an audience is what my movie was really about at it's core. And Not Fade Away is about the same thing. Life continues to happen all around you, but when you get on that stage and you have a real connection with the other band members....you somehow are transported to another dimension. Now this does not happen with every band. in fact it happens pretty rarely. But I was lucky enough to have played in band where this did happen. And even more important, it actually was documented in a DVD and an Autobiography. At the time it was happening, i don't know if I even realized how lucky I was. But when I go back and listen to the records we made (30 years later...ouch!!).....you can hear it. That is if you are really listening.
Check out this movie......if you LOVE ROCK AND ROLL.
