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by Brendan Bettinger Posted:December 7th, 2010 at 7:13 pm
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“Today was Epic, Monday December 6 marks the first day the Red Epic camera was used to shoot a major studio motion picture.” This is how John Schwartzman A.S.C. begins an enthusiastic post to commemorate his first week on the job with a fancy new toy. He does not specify the film, but Schwartzman is the cinematographer on Sony’s Spider-Man reboot, and the dots are easy enough to connect from there. This revelation is yet another harbinger of the coming RED EPIC era of big budget filmmaking, following the announcement that Peter Jackson would employ the cameras for the Hobbit films.
Since Spider-Man has started production, our first true look at the film ought to follow shortly — you know, something more insightful than Emma Stone’s custom hair color. Stone is joined by Andrew Garfield Rhys Ifans, Sally Field, Martin Sheen, Iffran Khan, Campbell Scott, Julianne Nicholson, and Annie Parisse in the Marc Webb-directed feature. The Spider-Man reboot opens in 3D on July 3, 2012. Hit the jump for the whole of Schwartzman’s post, which outlines the technical glory of the RED camera.
Found at Red User [via Gizmodo]:
Today was Epic, Monday December 6 marks the first day the Red Epic camera was used to shoot a major studio motion picture. I can say for certainty the camera does exist and boy is it ready for primetime, as a matter of fact it’s a true game changer. We shot in 3D with 4 Epics mounted on 2 3ality TS-5 rigs today, we did 22 set ups, including running high speed and the images look stunning! I do believe the sensor is iso 800 minus 1 stop for the mirror in daylight and iso 640 in tungsten light but that is really for every dp to determine for themselves, Brook Willard and I figured 640 tungsten but that’s just a number. For the first time in digital cinematography, small size doesn’t come with a resolution penalty, as a matter of fact there isn’t a higher resolution camera available other than IMAX, and this one weighs 5lbs with an ultra prime on it, suddenly 3D isn’t a 100lb beast! We had the cameras on dollies and a libra head today and we flew the 3D rig like it was an Arri 435. You guys told me you could do it in September and here we are today, Congratulations.
I am lighting by eye except that I’ve had to re-train myself to work at lower light levels because the camera is so sensitive. The images we made today were stunning, rich beautiful color and the resolution of a vistavision camera all in a package the size of a Hasselblad 501. We are shooting 2.40 at 5K, there wasn’t a hiccup from the cameras all day, the data was flawless, and there was a lot of it. I can tell you without these cameras it would be impossible to move a 3D rig in the ways that THIS story demands, if Jim and the crew hadn’t made these cameras available to us I don’t think we could have shot this movie the way our director envisioned it in 3D. Guys you’ve trusted me to take these out on their maiden voyage and I can tell you that after today I won’t let you down. I will have the members of my team, most of whom are familiar to the REDUSER site post about things about sub-menu’s and stuff my camera assistants won’t let me touch. I would like to thank Nate, Brook, Michael, and Deanan as well as my regular camera crew for an unbelievable first day, and Brook thanks for the Tiff’s they look amazing!
Mazel Tov RED!
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Red Camera is ideal since this is probably the second time Marc Webb has ever held a camera.
lol, Marc Webb with his 3D digital vision for Spiderman.
Marc Webb directed the great (500)Days of Summer. He also directed some of the best rock videos in recen memory. So show some respect.
I respect his incompetence and shallowness as shown in 500 Days of Summer, hence I ridicule any grand visions he may have for Spiderman.
Incompetence? Troll detected.
Incompetence? Troll detected.
Hater in the house.
alex is right 500 days of summer was awful. just because someone has a different opinion then you doesn’t make them a “troll” you morons.
Since when was Alex’s word law? Your post is all kinds of contradictions. Sure everyone has different opinions and that doesn’t make them a troll, but who made you a contributor of the most recent edition of Merriam-Webster encyclopedias?
His pilot episode for Lone Star that no one saw was also the best pilot on network television since Lost.
Red Camera is ideal since this is probably the second time Marc Webb has ever held a camera.
lol, Marc Webb with his 3D digital vision for Spiderman.
Jewish too? At least we now know how he got the Spiderman job, his skills in brown nosing must be incredible.
Jewish too? At least we now know how he got the Spiderman job, his skills in brown nosing must be incredible.
Don’t hate.
Well we know you’re a whiney moron with no life, but you’re a whiney moron with no life and no common decency? Congrats on setting the human evolution back a few years.
Who are you talking about? Marc Webb? He isn’t Jewish.
But the three biggest fan-picks to play Spidey were all Jewish (Anton Yelchin, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Logan Lerman).
They went with a different Jewish guy, though… oh well. I would have preferred Logan Lerman.
I am embarrassed to share the same name with you.
Alex, your skills are in being a dumbass are pretty solid. Clearly you are NOT Jewish.
Yay!
Is Mark webb following Jackson???
only once, switch to black suit spider-man(only possible if game is beat atleast once)
then go to the map and do story mode over. after that you beat the game again you would have to start a new game to do replays…
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I won’t be going to this and my my friends don’t plan to either. We are all 23 and find it completely ridiculous that it only took ten years for something we saw in theaters to be remade. We had talked over the years about what we’d seen in theaters and when we’d see it again. For example Mr. and Mrs. Smith might get remade in like 2030. But we never expected it’d be this quick. ten years is dumb. I like the supporting cast a lot. (yay for Campbell Scott being in something major. Loved Six Degrees) but this si too weird for me.
Maybe it will bomb and in a manner similar to ‘Majesty’s Secret Service/ Diamonds are Forever’ they will quickly rush to bring Tobey and Raimi back
I agree, remaking this franchise so early is a ridiculous move; the other ones are still too big in the public consciousness, I mean this really loses impact. They could have waited another three years at least…it just proves that big studios just want to cash in NOW and have no concept of retention or making movies that last or mean anything so that we actually want them in our film collections. LAME.
You DO realize Mr. and Mrs. Smith was a remake itself, correct?
i actually understood Schwartzmann’s report
Well, aren’t you just the smartest MF’er to ever come down the pike. Oh, look at me! I understand about cameras! Anyone who ever picked up a camera would understand that report so don’t think you’re anything special.
wow you’re kind of an asshole
I don’t wish failure on anyone but the fact that Sam Raimi made 3 really true to the character movies(number 2 may be the best superhero movie EVER made). They take it away from him because he didn’t think the script was ready? Shouldn’t that tell you something about who should be running this franchise? Ridiculous!!!!!!
You’ve never picked up a Spider-Man comic in your life have you?
Wow, a whole sewage of hyperbole and random chit chat written into an article. I now know exactly 0 about Spider-Man 4 apart from the fact it uses SUPA DUPER AMAZIN CAMERAS.
I feel so satisfied.
why did they have to reboot the series in the first place ?
That sounds really interesting, although I don’t care about 3D.
Unlike many, I loved Spider-Man 3. In this case, I prefered emo to badass.
But anyway I really like Spider-Man and I’ll go see it.