DSLR Cinema: The new dawn of filmmaking – Vimeo Festival Panel
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One of the highlights of 2010 for me was being invited to the first ever Vimeo Festival in New York City. As I mentioned before this was an incredible show and probably one of the best “first off” events that I have ever seen a company execute (You can read more about this in my previous blog post).
One of the biggest draws of the festival (outside of the amazing films being featured) was the amount of panels and Q&A’s between various speakers that were offered. I was fortunate enough to be included on one of these panels with my fellow DSLR shooter from across the Atlantic, Philip Bloom. Naturally, the topic of our conversation was DSLR cinema, but with a focus on its current strengths and weaknesses, and what the future holds for it. The discussion was moderated by filmmaker and camera expert, David Leitner. You can watch the panel in its entirety above.
Vimeo has also released many of the Festival’s other panels and discussions, which can be found HERE.
Am I correct when I’m hearing that you essentially had no more than five days pre-production for ‘Reverie’ ?!
Call the piece what you will Vincent, but the production value and diversity of that short is impressive on it’s own, and to think that you pulled it off with no advanced notice…
Hats off.
Glad you took the time to do this sit down with Bloom.
Very interesting discussion.
Maybe movie film is different from photography film, but it’s a very bold statement to say “film is dead”. Film, with wedding photography at least, seems to be making a resurgence in popularity.
Excellent video though, thanks for sharing.
I see you first time talking together, and I think this is great, you two are two of the leading people in HDdslr movement. So is there a friendship or a further collaboration to be developed out of it?
Excellent! Great to listen to you guys. Thanks very much to all who cooperated towards making this public 🙂
aaarrrggg….hi vince, dont want to be negative, but this guy reminded me of my teacher in college….”digital cameras, and computers, are devils toys”….and i learned 10x more in a year from sites like yours, ken rockwell, zack arias, chase jarvis and many more, than on my 5 year college…what a loss of time…Thank you for sharing your knowledge with us, you are a real teacher…by the way purchased you course HDSLR cinema, and also learned soooo many things….tnx again vince…
I felt same by watching this. David Leitner hasn´t ever thought about using a DSLR in a production or anything else. But he knows how to get a harddisk to cinema ^^
You and Philip have so much in common, you should do a bigger project together, maybe using Philips new 5dm3 and 7dm2 😉
The discussion was quite interesting thanks for sharing.
“I can’t see you because there’s too much depth of field here for me.” LOL! Good one, Vincent! Thank you for the discussion. Please continue to preach, brother!
very interesting and informative discussion as well as the video. your guys didi a great job.
Thanks 🙂
Vincent – listening to DP’s and other cinematographers bring me back to the late 90’s early 2K when digital stills hit. Color management whoas, the pains of moving from one medium to another and die hard film guys saying, “you’ll have to pry film from my cold dead hands” – then – “I’ll never go back to film”.
I feel them but it has a big element of humor for me.
Excellent discussion Vince.
Did I hear you correctly, that you would not choose to use a DSLR
on a documentary?
FYI, our first Platypus DSLR workshop for 2011 will start next week at San Marcos State in Texas, then San Jose State in California in late March, and the Maine Photo Workshop in October.
Vincent Laforet Reply:
February 1st, 2011 at 2:44 pm
I would use them to compliment another camera – to do gorgeous GVs, remote mounts, and stationary interview cams (w/ the 12 minute limit being a HUGE negative… you want your subject to FORGET they’re being filmed don’t you??? not reminded every 12 minutes…) That being said: a lot of people do it incredibly well – I just don’t know that it’s the right too for everyone: no audio out, no gain control (out of the box) no timecode (out of the box) and very difficult to focus… if your goal is to capture the “moments” there may be better tools out there! v
great…very interesting..
I’m no expert on panel discussions, but isn’t the point to get the panelists to talk? haha… that moderator drove me nuts…
Really enjoyed Vincent at the Adobe Sundance panel on HOW TECHNOLOGY INFLUENCES STORYTELLING & FILM. Thanks for sharing the Vimeo Festival panel video as well.
Vincent Laforet Reply:
January 30th, 2012 at 3:44 pm
Thanks – just published the video on the blog!