#14: Digital Filming on Voyage of the Dawn TreaderSome updates on some of the companies and processes involved with Digital filming. It's hardly the most spectacuarly interesting stuff, but it all counts right?
Also, whilst not necessarily directly related to VFX, this was probably the only real place to put all this stuff, plus the first one does have a significant quote with regards to the potential number of VFX shots in the movie...
14.1 - Digital Negative Management by SohonetFirst up, a brief article on Sohonet's "Vessel" service for managing Digital Negatives, and how it's being used in post-production on Voyage of the Dawn Treader:
http://www.sohonet.co.uk/downloads/newsletter_feb_2010.pdfSecond of all, a video interview with Jon Ferguy of Sohonet and Jonas Thaler of Walden Media where they talk about some of the digital workflow processes used on Voyage of the Dawn Treader. They both appear in the second half of the show, and whilst the host introduces their interviews as being about Prince Caspian, she is very definitely mistaken. Firstly as PC wasn't shot digitally, secondly as Sohonet werent involved in PC, and thirdly as Jonas Thaler references VDT by name numerous times in the interview
http://media.fxguide.com/fxguidetv/fxguidetv-ep084.movJon Ferguy wrote:On the Walden feature we are currently working on, there's about 1200, 1300 visual effects in that
Surely he would have to be mistaken about that? Or surely i would have to be mistaken about what he said, as there can't possibly be less VFX shots in this movie than both PC (1600-1800 VFX shots) and LWW (1500-1600 VFX shots) can there?
14.2 - On-Set Digital Video Assistance by AJA SolutionsI'd have to admit that i barely understand a word in this following article
(i think i just about understood enough to write that summary title, but even then i'm not sure i got it right) but it does seem to be specifically about Voyage of the Dawn Treader and its pretty lengthy, so if you are into that sort of thing read away!
http://www.aja.com/news/user-stories_article.php?id=40Plus another shorter, but equally complicated article about AJA solutions and their role in VDT:
http://area.autodesk.com/userdata/static/nab/2010/aja_ki_pro_in_action_web.pdf14.3 - Post Production Digital Workflow Management by Sixteen19A much more user-friendly and fun to read article here about the entire digital post-production process, with some specific references to working on Voyage of the Dawn Treader, which was apparently the "largest all file-based Post workflow in history". Sounds impressive to me!
http://postfilm.wordpress.com/2010/04/0 ... evolution/14.4 - Digital Filming using the Sony F23In case you don't recall, or missed it at the time, this was the interview with VDT cinematographer Dante Spinotti that first alerted us to the fact that they were going to shoot VDT with digital cameras:
http://www.studiodaily.com/filmandvideo ... 11045.htmlHere also are a couple of further interesting bits and pieces related to to the use of the Sony F23. Firstly a forum posting on the website of cinematographer Roger Deakins. Although there is no way of verifying the posts as being authentic, i would guess from the screenname and mention of working in the electrics department, that it was
Josh Calder who was a Rigging Electrican on the production. Though that's just a guess.
J0shie wrote:I was just wondering what everyone thought of the F23 and the films that Dante Spinotti has been shooting? I'm currently working on the new Narnia film being shot in Australia (electrics department) and I just don't understand why Dante loves the camera so much. Personally i just think it forms a rough/raw looking picture that's extremely ugly and hard to look at. I'm a big fan of Dante's work (Heat's one of my favourite films) and I'm just dumbfounded about his choices.
http://www.deakinsonline.com/forum2/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=1072Having seen the trailer, i would be very tempted to agree with his verdict on the picture quality
Anyway, along with that there is also another forum posting on another site which talks about the fact that they couldn't shoot the aerial shots for VDT using the Sony F23 for some technical reason or another, and instead used a Cineflex 1500 for the aerial shots.
http://www.rogueelementfilms.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=252.0Also on the website for Peter Marsden (a Film and Digital Camera Assistant) it seems to suggest that they used a Sony F900R as well as the Sony F23 during post-production shooting in London. VFX and Miniatures filming perhaps?
http://www.rewound.com.au/14.5 - On-Set Colour Correction by Digital VisionFinally for the sake of completion, an interview that was published as a news story on NarniaWeb a while ago, but just in case you missed it, here is Digital Vision talking about their work doing colour correction on the set of Voyage of the Dawn Treader.
http://www.resource411.com/411Update/Issue/Articles/Story.cfm?StoryID=1088