| David Fincher: “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button” |
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Coming of Age
The most difficult technical challenge in creating a realistic film was in establishing the ages of Pitt and Blanchett in such a way that the prostheses and effects never blocked their performances. [Read More] |
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| Top End HD – The World of Digital Film |
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| 17 January 2009 - Theatre 7, Pinewood Studios, Bucks |
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| Do you know your Logs from your LUTs? If you are uncertain about the new workflow involved with the 'digital film' way of working or need reassurance about how to assess Raw images on set, then don't miss this cutting edge workshop (free to GTC members) from Dan Mulligan of digital film rental specialists Rogue Element Films. Click Below for more details. |
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| New Hawk Anamorphic lenses! |
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| Rogue is pleased to announce the new 1.3x Hawk Anamorphic lenses for the F35. Capture the full amount of image resolution to the F35 CCD and then de-squeeze the images in post without loosing any resolution from cropping. Go to kit list to download PDFs of the lenes and tech info. |
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Rogue Element Films completes Principle Photography for
BBC Summer Wine 2009 |
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| Another season for Digital Film rental specialist Rogue Element Films supplying the BBC with Viper, SRW1 and Zeiss lenses, once again proving a winning formula for BBC Last of the Summer Wine. Photography for the series was completed in October 2008 with Dan Mulligan Camera Operating and providing full Viper technical support. |
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| Director of Photography Andrea Chiozzotto discusses his experiences shooting with the Viper for the recent Feature project 'The Papyrus'. This movie was photographed using Viper Filmstream cameras recording to Stwo DFRs as fully uncompressed image data, the same workflow as David Finchers new opus 'The Curious Case of Benjamin Buttons'. |
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| - A full digital data workflow was employed for this Feature shooting around London in March. |
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| As well as using Stwo Take2 DFRs to record uncompressed 2K imagery we were able to provide ProRes 422 offline copies for editorial as well as employ Iridas mobile colour timing suite to employ LUTs to our images. |
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| The images here show the unique Stwo/Tangent/Iridas mobile workstation used to not only capture 2K DPX frames natively from the Viper (the digital negative) but also create LUTs onset and colour time our images, a real first for this form of digital film capture. |
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| Contact us for more details and also see the NAB issue of HD Magazine for a full write up of this workflow and its use. |
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| Cherrybomb Feature shoots F23 supplied by Rogue Films |
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| View the Sony Cherrybomb feature... |
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| The demand for HD film-making just keeps rising and rising. |
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| DP Dee Elliot : |
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"The directors and I had discussed many different
formats / cameras for Cherrybomb, and as it was my first choice I was delighted when we were able to go with the F23 package from Rogue Element. It was a joy to use. |
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Although they had been recommended to me I had no previous experience with Rogue Element, but the back up and support from Dan and his team was excellent.
Now we weren't shooting near London, we were in Belfast where there are no major rental houses (or agents of for that matter). In short, top class service." |
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Directors: Lisa Barros D'Sa & Glenn Leyburn
DP: Dee Elliott
Focus Puller: Ray Carlin
2nd AC: Ruth Greer |
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| the Broader issue - Digital cinematography with no tape in sight |
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| For the third programme in this series on File-based Workflows, our attention turns to the worlds of feature film and commercials production. How are digital cameras and data capture affecting the job of getting movies and ads onto our screens? |
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| Colin Birch's guests are Dan Mulligan (pictured, seated), cinematographer and owner of Rogue Element Films, and Steve Roach, co-founder of digital recording technology supplier S.Two. |
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| New Rogue Element Films Digital Film Forum Live... |
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*Rogue Element Forum*
*Digital Film Forum* F35/D21/Dalsa and more |
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Brand new Digital Forum
for real time high end
Digital Film Systems |
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| Click Here to visit the forum |
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| Pinewood F35 Open day a roaring success |
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| From over 170 registrations we had an overall attendence above 120 for the whole day, totally surpassing our expectations. A great crowd ensured lively discussions all day as well as the chance to show Hawk 1.3x anamorphic lenses, F35, DPX data capture and SR motion. |
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| Stephen Roach from Stwo discussed uncompressed DPX data systems while I discussed SR and LUTs on set and more. An unqualified success so much so that we will be running more open days and workshops during the remainder of 2008. |
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| Visit www.f35pinewood.com for more details |
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| One Red Pixel shoots uncompressed DPX frames from F23 |
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| A first for the UK market One Red Pixel chose the F23 with a fully uncompressed data workflow for their green screen heavy commercial shoot. By shooting DPX frames natively to Dmags they were not only getting extremely clean images but due to them being uncompressed it meant perfect keying and tracking results. |
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A full article on the results will soon follow explaining the full benefits
of uncompressed data workflows. |
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| Rogue Element Films & Band Pro Munich present F35 Demo Day... |
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| Rogue shoots new action movie in UK |
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| 31north62east, Directed by Tristan Loraine and Photographed by Sue Gibson BSC will wrap photography next week. |
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| Shooting to Viper with Zeiss lenses and the SRW1 444 Field Recorder this Feature has followed along the same path as David Fincher and Michael Mann in using the Viper Filmstream camera for its main unit. More on this new Film once fully completed. |
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| Dan Mulligan gives two full interviews to The Reel Show. |
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| The first talks about the differences between Viper and the Sony F23 and the second demonstrates how to conduct live colour timing on set using CineTal Grade1 24" LCD and Iridas Speedgrade with a Tangent grading panel. |
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| Click on www.reel-show.tv to see both items. |
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| IBC 2008 World Exclusive : Rogue Element Films and Sony F35 |
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Rogue Element Films, the worlds most progressive supplier of high end Digital Cinematography hardware and workflows is pleased to announce the arrival of the very first Sony F35 S35mm CCD system from Band Pro.
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| This marks a real watershed in the progression of Independent Digital Cinematography allowing for 35mm Film Lenses as well as fully uncompressed data capture from Stwo DFRs, as used by David Fincher. |
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| Rogue is now the only Digital Film Company in the world to offer the F35 in both its native SR capture format or as uncompressed DPX digital negative data. |
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| Channel 4 Film 4 9PM Stings |
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| Film 4 commissioned Rogue to supply Vipers for their new Film at 9 stings. These were shot at Pinewood using time lapse motion control in Vipers Filmstream Film Capture mode. Recording to HDCAM SR this proved the ideal workflow for the quick Post turnaround. call for SR or Data workflows for 2K or 4K Camera systems. |
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There are 3 movies, click on the links, right to view these.
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| If you don't have flash installed you can download it for free <click here> or right click above to download .mov files which you can play in any media player. |
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| Leading Independant Digital Film supplier Rogue Element Films is announcing the aquisition of a new 444 camera system from Sony, the F23. |
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| This exciting new camera can record Dual Link 444 1080 24/25P Log images with its Cine S-Log setting as well uniquely record to SR tape 50/60P images at both 422 and 444 colour space. |
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| This enables slow motion content to be recorded direct to the SR tape format via internal hardware boards giving you instant results on set and playback in slow motion, no software rendering or waiting times. |
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| Also we can record to disk via Stwo's DFRs. These recorders can record fully uncompressed DPX frames from the F23 up to 50/60P in 422 and instantly playback on set at any selected speed. |
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| We are the only company in the world offering both HDCAM-SR and Digital Data Recording for all our camera systems and have custom workflows developed for all systems. Our unique position within the industry allows us to offer the very best in Digital Cinematography being complemented by our Digital Film Laboratory based at Pinewood Studios. |
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| S.Two Purchase - PRESS RELEASE |
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Rogue Element Films purchases S.two digital film system
for uncompressed production and post |
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Reno, NV 14th February 2008 – S.two Corporation has announced that Rogue Element
Films, one of the UK’s most progressive production companies, has become the first
independent production facility to invest in a complete S.two uncompressed digital film
production and post system. |
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| The mobile phone giant MoviStar in Spain used the Viper from Rogue for their new spot promoting the winning of Porsche Cayenne 4x4 cars via texts. 4 stories were devised to show ordinary people 'winning'. |
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| A Night Club, Supermarket, Village Fisherman and Hitchhiker. After testing the production choose to shoot 444 16:9 Filmstream to SRW1 SR Decks. Post was offered on site with DVCAM offline rushes copied with LUTs applied to them and then flown to Madrid for editorial the next morning. |
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| All technical DIT services were supplied by Rogue to ensure smooth and efficient |
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| Kia have chosen the Viper Filmstream to film the latest CSI Idents for their new cars. The difference here is an all data workflow from photography to offline and post. |
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