EN: Kalkin Revelation > Shooting til the End

It has been quite some experience and I can say I won´t do it again without a budget and under tight schedule and with an camera where its virtually impossible to tell if a picture is in focus. We had our last official day of shooting today -> keeping absolutely in schedule (which is amazing considering the weather was playing games all along, about every important person/location/equipment got rescheduled canceled or shortened just a day before it was needed. But it seems we have about 98% of all 360 shots done -> 10 hours of raw footage that needs sorting and checking and then get into postproduction - for which I only have have roughly one month left! From this point thanks goes out to ALL who helped out with small and big things over long periods and small periods of time - without you I couldn´t have done anything - you know who you all are. (I am a bit in a rush and don´t want to miss out anyone - a list of all names to follow soon ;)

Now some photos collected during the days - I wish I had more time to shoot more photos some cool locations are entirely missing (like the wonderful greenhouse) some photos are blurry as I was more concentrated on the filming side. I hope to post some actual moving footage soon as well. One thing for sure - the camera - a JVC made HDV camcorder (don´t even know the exact model) is absolute rubbish. Colors are missing (all looks a bit greyish except when under full sunlight), stuff is out of focus because a) the viewfinder AND the foldout screen are rubbish in resolution b) the focus assistent is the biggest joke since Jaz drives. The connection to the tripod was always unscrewing itself, especially when under time constrains -> like throughout the whole project. Generally the camera did not feel right -> but the footage seems to be of MUCH better quality in the end then anything I could have achieved with straight DV so I guess the trade offs aren´t too bad in the end. I am very thankful that I got the camera at all - Sebastian K. aka. viso.thek thats you. BTW I choosed to use this camera enthusiastically in the first place because it offers 720p at 25 fps - since this is going out of computers and projectors and will see lots of sfx and compositing and stuff I just don´t want to (ever) deal with fields (again).

If anyone has questions to ask about the production the equipment used, the actors, the makeup or whatever else fire off I try to answer them.

So here are some more photos.