Painting the Midlands RED
We’re all pretty excited here at Oakslade at the moment - not only has spring finally bothered to show up (leading to a mad rush as everyone tries to book their summer holiday on the same week in August) but we’ve been playing with a very big, shiny and, quite frankly, groundbreaking new toy.
Our good friends over at AEFilms brought over their RED camera last week so that we could see how to fit it into our Post Production workflow. It’s fair to say that it’s one of the most eagerly anticipated developments in the world of filmmaking for many a year… and so there are thousands of detailed, geeky blog posts out there if you want to know more about it, but suffice to say that it takes beautiful images in amazing detail and records them straight onto a hard disk - doing away with the need for all those little tapes that end up rattling around in the bottom of the kit bag.
The huge benefit to us editors is that we can then work on the files straight away - no capturing or logging necessary! And, because the pictures are captured in such high detail, we can really push the boat out when grading, creating graphics or adding that extra little bit of magic to your project (usually the few days at the end of the schedule when we go a bit wild eyed, lock ourselves in our suites and only emerge to demand caffeine).
We’re looking forward to putting the RED through its paces on a couple of shoots we’ve got coming up in Birmingham and the Midlands over the next few weeks, so expect to see a few examples of our footage in the not too distant future - once we’ve wiped the drool off it first!