Bear in mind, when you look at trailers, they are often rushed to get the hype going and are not necessarily representative of the final product.

It looks like 28 Days is going into wide release, and that certainly will make it one of the more successful dv productions automatically. I'd love to know the total cost of the post production.

It'll be out on R2 DVD in a couiple of days.

http://www.playserver5.com/play247.a...2&title=114189

I went with my 6 year old to see X-Men 2 the other day and saw the "28 Days Later" trailer. It looked very edgy and raw but I assumed that was the look they wanted for the trailer to a zombie movie.

Zombie movies are real low on my "must see" list, but now that I know that it is shot in DV I will check it out.

my local paper is showing a June 27th , 2003 release date for "28 days later" ...

fox seachlight is showing June 28th release date

http://www.28dayslaterthemovie.com/upcoming/

Not to judge you or anything, but you took your 6 year old to
X-Men 2? I would not take my 12 year old there. I think most
rating systems are way way way too low, but that might be me...
I am from Europe after all <g>

I mistyped. I left the 6 year old at home and took the 10 year old. (Pretty scary. I only have two and I get them confused. Oh well.)

I watched the first X-Men movie on DVD before taking my son to X-Men 2. I found nothing in either the first nor the second that exceeded the level of violence found in the cartoon shows that I allow them to watch on Saturday.

Truth is if I really wanted to shield them from violence I would worry more about CNN than X-Men.

Xl1 or no, I still don't understand why danny boyle did a sequel to a sandra bullock movie ;)

Okay, I read the entire thread, what I still want to know is: Was it shot with the mini35 adapter or not, one said yes, another said no. Anyone know for certain?

Personally I thought the trailer looked pretty good on the big screen, I would have never guessed it was an XL1S!

No Mini. Not only did someone who worked on the post production actually say so on this thread, you can look at some of the behind the scenes footage from the official site where you can see a plain jane XL1.

Hmm, thats interesting, I don't recal Simon saying no to the mini, and why can't some of the sots have been done without it?? The behind the scens stuff also shows FRAME in the viewfinder.

Here's an interview in RES:
http://www.res.com/magazine/articles...003-05-21.html

It doensn't clear this up. I do know that some scenes were filmed on celluloid. Danny Boyle answers three questions relating to the DV. An interesting one is where he said altering the frame rate made

"I wanted this enormous energy from theose who are infected, which I was going to get through this particular menu on the camera, which allows you to alter the frame rate; things appear to be speeded up but actually it's real time. So you kind of snatch at fast images, like falling rain or a man running, snatching at them in a slightly unreliable way. "

I wonder what he's talking about. It sounds interesting.

I guess someone here is going to have to get the Making Of docu to find out.

http://us.imdb.com/Details?0339542

Another interesting tidbit:

"One of the key effect sequences was a petrol station explosion, which was shot on a set and then composited into a location in London. Due to the limitations of wide-angle lenses available for the DV camera, Clear used REALVIZ Stitcher to piece together six live action plates, from six different cameras, to create the city-wide shots required by Boyle."

http://www.cgfocus.com/NewsDetails.cfm?NewsID=655

Oh wow. I didn't realize that Anthony Todd Mantle also shot "Festen" (Celebration), my favourite all-time DV movie.

A great interview where Mantle talks about his feeling of shooting Celebration. No storyboarding, just 'emotional shooting'.

http://www.filmmakermagazine.com/spr...el_nation.html

AMERICAN CINEMATOGRAPHER confirms "28 Days Later" shot entirely in CanonDV
 

Well it is *officially* official, this month's issue of AMERICAN CINEMATOGRAPHER confirms that "28 Days Later" was shot with an XL1S with an OPTEX B4-XL adaptor and some CANON EC and EJ Hi-Def primes.

Gooooo CANON!!!

We are definitely getting together one night to see the film in Hollywood sometime between June 26-30, while we are at the Entertainment Technology Show (June 27-28). We are probably meeting first for a few rounds at a place yet to be determined. The more the merrier. Stop by at the Canon booth and say hello. Would like to meet any and all DVi Wranglers who will be in the area during that time.

Looking forward,

- don

Is it a good article? If so I am buying the mag today.