Carlos Saura relies on the Canon EOS C00 Mark II for the filming of the Jota

Carlos Saura relies on the Canon EOS C300 Mark II for the filming of the Jota Its versatility, its response with very low light levels and the combination with different lenses are some of the keys to the Aragonese director has chosen by the Canon camera.

For his new film musical, in this case centered on the jota, the director Aragonese Carlos Saura has bet by it Canon EOS C300 Mark II, along with several lenses EF and prime, as part of the teams record.

In The Jotapremiered this month in cinemas, Saura made a journey from singing and dance traditional to what points the future of this tradition, in order to leave to posterity a historic and unique document, which serves as memory and consultation for all music lovers.

According to Paco Belda, director of photography of The Jota, "chose the EOS C300 Mark II by its versatility since, to the be a camcorder small, is conformed perfectly to the needs of the production." "A second camera is moving very fast and a camera of this size, needed us so that this met the requirements". "In addition, has a potential important level of record;" I had had experience with the EOS C500 and had proven their magnificent response. The image that offers is devoid completely of what associate to an image digital... has much of organic , in fact the image resulting of the film is seems much to the image that got before with them stands photochemical. "An of its particularities is its excellent record in the green", continues.

Low levels of light

The main challenge to which are faced in the filming was the light. Belda explains "Saura is a person with high levels of demand and refining around the image, as it has shown throughout his career. Especially in this last phase, in which filmed more musical, he wanted to always count on a clean, rich picture in terms of chromatic range and latitude. The Canon EOS C300 Mark II fulfilled all these requirements". "The capture of light in this film has been, in occasions, with some levels of light very low;" This camera with an ISO 800, has given us much things, it has made us have a few schemes very low key light, brilliantly, quietly and with an excellent quality,"he adds.

Belda highlights that the combination between the EOS C300 Mark II and them lenses of Canon "has result be it mixes perfect for get that definition required and the reading in low lights;" the objetivo-sensor union has worked very well. In this Chamber, the game of fixed lenses from Canon are ultraluminous and mixed very well with the zooms, so that the symbiosis that has occurred between fixed optics and lenses of variable focal length has proved to be what we needed."

"The use of this camcorder has influenced the creativity of the film. We wanted a soft and contrasted image at the same time, a good record in low light but to not let having a certain incision,"emphasizes director of photography.

La c mara ha ayudado tambi n a simplificar el flujo de trabajo. Al generar archivos proxy 2K a los que se les puede aplicar una Lut, decidimos aplicar una de las que Canon pone a disposici n, que se ajustaba bastante a lo que persegu amos . Es fant stico, porque fue sencillo la generaci n de dailies y del material para montaje semietalonado, con lo que el equipo pod a hacerse una idea de c mo estaba resultando el rodaje en todo momento y facilitaba la visualizaci n en postproducci n , indica Belda.

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