Ed.

Here is a quick sample of some day two footage. You will observe the reverse will need some creative grading from when we lost the daylight window fill and subbed with the blue-gelled CFL.

Jean-Luc also veered off his eyeline from Rory to his brother which I did not observe at the time. He may not have done so in the other takes however focus may not be so good throughout them either as I was trying to frame and pull focus on my own for them before we shoved his brother into the small space to reach for the focus lever.

Audio is good, the product of having somebody competent on the day for sound.

I have unpassworded the clip now that Tropfest is done and gone as Rory ( Dad ) wanted a look and I did not have the links and password with me when we discussed it.

For those unconnected who look at this clip, the story is of a teenager, quietly grieving the recent death of his father with whom there was a less than happy relationship.

Reluctant to go to the funeral, he refuses to be drawn from the computer video game he is playing when his mother and grandfather call for him to depart with them.

That instant he is transported into the environment of a video game with a whole different set of rules, where he meets his father who has come back to put things right.

It is a sweet-sad little story which deserved a lot more time and resources than we were able to committ to it.


For the techies, vision was shot on the SI2K with minimal lighting resources, two CFLs in old Photoflood parabolic reflectors and indirect daylight spill from the verander windows.

Due to the confined workspace when shooting the reverse, even when cheating it, I was working across the camera crosshanded. We managed to shoehorn the teen actor's brother into a tight space to work the follow-focus after the first few bad takes when focus or framing was lost.

Audio for this clip went into the camera via Sound Devices Mix-Pre from Rode NTG-1 or NTG-3 mic.

Post for this rush clip consisted of copy from the Dataport drive, apply default look, quick black and white levels trim plus 25 points of sharpen to tidy up some of my bad focus. There is no in-camera enhancement of the image.

With SI2K footage, I normally do this in post from the raw image.

Exported direct from timeline to .wmv file to post here.