Rick Spilman
May 29th, 2003, 03:59 PM
If you are all interested in making movies with DV cameras go out and rent the DVD for "Personal Velocity". Absolutely fantastic.
To be honest I didn't particularly like the movie. (It was very well shot.) Literary movies with narration have never been real high on my list of favorites. (Hell, almost any movie with extensive narration bothers me. ) I have watched about a third of the movie and will probably watch the rest. What makes the DVD great are the "special features"
First I watched "Creating Personal Velocity" which was fun, if only to see the two PD150s shooting the film and to listen to Ellen Kuras, the DP, talk about the good and bad aspects of shooting with two cameras and on DV.
Next I turned on the commentary by Ellen Kuras and Gaffer John Nadeau as they talked over the movie scene by scene discussing in considerable detail about the problems they had in blocking and shooting the shot, how each was lit and all the good and bad aspects of shooting in DV and laughing about the challenges of shooting a low budget independent film.
Ellen Kuras is experienced in both film and DV. She was DP on Spike Lee's Bamboozled, shot with VX1000s and TRV 900s. It is fascinating listening to her detailing what does and does not work with DV. Personal Velocity won the "Best Cinematography" award" at Sundance.
I haven't listened to the director's commentary yet but am looking forward to it.
To be honest I didn't particularly like the movie. (It was very well shot.) Literary movies with narration have never been real high on my list of favorites. (Hell, almost any movie with extensive narration bothers me. ) I have watched about a third of the movie and will probably watch the rest. What makes the DVD great are the "special features"
First I watched "Creating Personal Velocity" which was fun, if only to see the two PD150s shooting the film and to listen to Ellen Kuras, the DP, talk about the good and bad aspects of shooting with two cameras and on DV.
Next I turned on the commentary by Ellen Kuras and Gaffer John Nadeau as they talked over the movie scene by scene discussing in considerable detail about the problems they had in blocking and shooting the shot, how each was lit and all the good and bad aspects of shooting in DV and laughing about the challenges of shooting a low budget independent film.
Ellen Kuras is experienced in both film and DV. She was DP on Spike Lee's Bamboozled, shot with VX1000s and TRV 900s. It is fascinating listening to her detailing what does and does not work with DV. Personal Velocity won the "Best Cinematography" award" at Sundance.
I haven't listened to the director's commentary yet but am looking forward to it.