With only instinct and desire as their guides, big ideas intermingle with drugs and sex and one thing seamlessly gives way to another. Along with best friend Michal, handsome and wide-eyed, they roam the metropolis at night, floating from party to party, dancing until dawn in makeshift clubs and city squares. ALL THESE SLEEPLESS NIGHTS viscerally summons that feeling, chronicling life across two Warsaw summers when students Kris and Michal resolve to experience life to the limit.Īfter Kris breaks up with his long-time girlfriend, anything seems possible and Warsaw is his playground. Many of us know the freedom of our twenties-unfettered by responsibilities or mortality, inventing ourselves in the rush of the moment. And the camera is yet another tool in a large box of tools that includes lights, microphones, cables, stands, grips, etc.GENRES: Documentary, drugs, foreign, lifestyle, Sundance Regardless, I suppose the best thing to remember at the end of the day: story trumps all. The delay perhaps demonstrates the challenge a smaller manufacturer faces in a market dominated by well-heeled giants like Sony and Canon. I would hope that means the company is still fine tuning its performance and is reluctant to bring the Ursa Mini prematurely to market. Here we are coming up on the one year anniversary of the announcement, and this product has yet to see the light of day. Only one problem: it’s still not shipping. And at just under $5,000 it’s a cinematic bargain. There Blackmagic stole headlines, including one literally here on Stark Insider for its new “Ursa Mini” camera. It came last year, in April during the NAB show in Vegas. One concern I have with this company is regarding their most recent camera announcement. In A World: How to build a simple, low-cost voice-over studioįrom DSLR to Super 35: Canon C100 Mk II First Impressions + Harley Quinn! (Video Test) Specs improve, prices drop - yet quality it would seem is generally without compromise. We all benefit with the increased competition. This advanced camera is far from a point-and-shoot.Īlthough I’m a Canon C100 guy, and have placed a pre-order for RED’s upcoming Raven, I want to see Blackmagic do well. Blackmagic Design’s Pocket Cinema Camera. And puts tools into the hands of creative people, such as film school students, who might not otherwise have the budget to otherwise afford to shoot from something other than their iPhone (still, not a bad choice!). Cameras that produce high quality, cinematic images can now be had for under $1,000 (Blackmagic Pocket Cinema Camera). I haven’t seen any of the above films yet, though if they look anything like the footage I’ve seen around the Web (Vimeo especially) then I’d doubt many could tell the difference between these and films using most more expensive cameras from companies such as RED and Arri.īlackmagic has been one of the reasons, in my view, why the low cost cinema market has emerged. Manoman (Photo courtesy Sundance Institute and the filmmakers) Upcoming films that were shot on Blackmagic include: Michael Jackson’s Journey from Motown to Off the Wall (Spike Lee) Yoga Hosers (Kevin Smith) Sleight Wiener-Dog (Todd Solondz) Swiss Army Man and Equity. In addition, the company’s color grading software, DaVinci Resolve Studio, was also used to process the look of dozens of films. Operation Avalanche – DPs Jared Raab and Andrew Appelle with Pocket Cinema Camera Manoman – DP Steven Cameron Ferguson with Pocket Cinema Camera Gibson with Blackmagic Cinema Cameras and Pocket Cinema Cameras, and color graded by Mark Todd Osborne with DaVinci Resolve StudioĪll These Sleepless Nights – Director and DP Michal Marczak with Pocket Cinema Camera The 4th – DP Shane Bruce Johnston, DP Charles J. Here’s the four films shot on Blackmagic cameras that made it to Sundance: The Australian cinema camera maker announced that several films screened this week at the Sundance film festival were shot on their cameras - specifically, the Blackmagic Cinema Camera (starting at $1,995), and Blackmagic Pocket Cinema Camera ($995). The life of an indie manufacturer is not easy: It’s one thing to produce relatively low cost cameras, but it’s entirely another thing to get big name directors to use them on their projects.įor Blackmagic Design, it would seem the tide is slowly turning in their favor…
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