new filmmakers Asylum Artists production: MEET YOUR MAKER by Don Dixon, Chris Reesor, Scott McIntyre and Shereen Mroueh
- Don Dixon
- Chris Reesor
- Scott McIntyre
- Shereen Mroueh
Scott McIntyre the DP of “Meet your Maker” explains some of the camera and equipment, along with the digital color:
Scott McIntyre: It was around this time, we picked up a Canon 5d MKII @ the Asylum studio and began shooting a large portion of our work on HD-SLR. For the Meet Your Maker project, we relied heavily on really strong cinematic composition, as we were trying to avoid movement because of the rolling shutter affect associated with the 5d. We used Nikon prime lenses to shoot the project and adapted that to the Canon 5d with a Novoflex Nikon-Canon mount.
Our lens set included, 24mm,35mm,50mm, 85mm, and 105macro . Most of the shots were naturally lit with ambient light, except the shots of Joe on his couch which had a window light for key, and a Kino Diva with Daylight bulbs balancing the falloff.
For the performance shoot we used 4 Canon 5d’s with mixed focal lengths, and lit the scene with Tungsten Fresnel lighting, and a Kino Diva kit. The diva’s were 75% Tungsten, and a 25% Daylight. This created some nice blue specular highlights on the guitars, and created a contrast in color within the scene, that tries to direct your eye towards the players.
Chris Reesor: All post production video was done in FCP and all audio work was done In Protools.
Scott McIntyre: The project was coloured with Apple Color, and I tried to get as natural a feel to the footage as I could through digital color. By using masks, and HSL Color selection to make certain part of the images pop, I found we could really control what part of the frame the user was focused on, without realizing that there was several layers of masking, and colors corrects on top of an image.
Here are some of the influences for this project: