That film won me the Independent Achievement Award at the New York International Independent Film Festival, where it screened closing night in glorious 35mm along with MANHATTAN MIDNIGHT, the first film to be shot in High Defintion (with the same $100,000 cameras used on Attack of the Clones) and also noted because it was the film debut of the amazing Maggie Q. In a leading role, no less!
Since 2002 I actually began and abandoned two short films, both shot on DV. I just hated how they looked. DV is such an ugly format, completely lacking in clarity or fine detail. Film is film and video is video, dammit!
Or at least video was video, until HD came along. Now we have affordable High Definition cameras capable of delivering astonishingly life-like images. Sometimes too lifelike. I hate cinema with that clean HD Video look more akin to football games and boxing matches. However, with the right lighting and some post processing, HD can look like something close to film. Did you see the season finale to HOUSE back in May? That was shot with Canon 5D's, a DSLR camera that can be had for $2,500 (minus lens). That woke me up. Heck, it woke everybody up!
And so... I will march forward and shoot this short in High Definition on January 8 (and a few other days before and after) and hopefully have it in the can, edited and mixed by February 1st. This is almost a practice run for a huge short film I have planned for April. That one will be shot on Film and HD. A nice mix, for reasons I won't get into just now.
This little short will be fun. It's comedic in tone and will come in around 5 minutes. That's the perfect length for a funny short film. Any longer and you can lose your audience.
So welcome aboard. I'll be updating at least once a week, I swear on my life, so help me, well, you know who.
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