Barry Green
April 28th, 2006, 10:02 PM
http://www.marcsinger.info/main.html
Marc Singer's started a blog about his new documentary. His prior film "Dark Days" won three awards at Sundance and the Independent Spirit award. In Dark Days he lived among the homeless for years in an underground Amtrak tunnel, telling their story.
This time he's imbedded in a Marines Force Recon squad (Force Recon being the elite of the elite).
I bring it up here in this forum because he's using an HVX for all this stuff, taking it into the most challenging of conditions. He started out on one of the other cameras because it was available, but it wasn't getting the job done so when the HVX was released he switched to the HVX. He's putting it through the paces, it's taken a bullet hit, he's filmed some 60p overcranked slow-motion shots of concussion grenades where the blast was so strong that the paint peeled off the walls and the footage shows the shock wave rolling towards the camera... He started corresponding with me to ask questions about settings and such, and I asked him what he was working on and when he told me, I was blown away. And jealous -- I mean, this guy's living large. He's about a month away from deploying to Iraq and Afghanistan. I asked him if he wasn't a bit concerned about heading into the heart of a civil war, and he said "hey, the hotter the better -- and besides, considering the guys I'm going with, I'm not concerned at all -- they're the best of the best." Hardcore.
Anyway, Marc's a great guy and has shared a lot of his experiences on DVXUser, and now he's running a blog specifically about his experiences with the Force Recon unit and the making of the film. Marc hasn't shared any footage yet, but he says it's incredible.
Marc Singer's started a blog about his new documentary. His prior film "Dark Days" won three awards at Sundance and the Independent Spirit award. In Dark Days he lived among the homeless for years in an underground Amtrak tunnel, telling their story.
This time he's imbedded in a Marines Force Recon squad (Force Recon being the elite of the elite).
I bring it up here in this forum because he's using an HVX for all this stuff, taking it into the most challenging of conditions. He started out on one of the other cameras because it was available, but it wasn't getting the job done so when the HVX was released he switched to the HVX. He's putting it through the paces, it's taken a bullet hit, he's filmed some 60p overcranked slow-motion shots of concussion grenades where the blast was so strong that the paint peeled off the walls and the footage shows the shock wave rolling towards the camera... He started corresponding with me to ask questions about settings and such, and I asked him what he was working on and when he told me, I was blown away. And jealous -- I mean, this guy's living large. He's about a month away from deploying to Iraq and Afghanistan. I asked him if he wasn't a bit concerned about heading into the heart of a civil war, and he said "hey, the hotter the better -- and besides, considering the guys I'm going with, I'm not concerned at all -- they're the best of the best." Hardcore.
Anyway, Marc's a great guy and has shared a lot of his experiences on DVXUser, and now he's running a blog specifically about his experiences with the Force Recon unit and the making of the film. Marc hasn't shared any footage yet, but he says it's incredible.