BRUTUS Magazine's Latest Featured Film Shot on URSA Mini Pro 12K By Mikiya Takimoto
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Brie Clayton April 22, 2021
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Blackmagic Design announced today that award winning DP and photographer Mikiya Takimoto used Blackmagic URSA Mini Pro 12K for shooting special film content to accompany BRUTUS Magazine's recent feature articles. The film, which was available on the renowned lifestyle publication's site and social media channels, was also graded using DaVinci Resolve Studio for grading.
Takimoto has worked on a wide range of photography and cinematography, such as advertising photos, TV commercials and feature films. He is well known as a DP for award winning director Hirokazu Kore-eda's three films, and has won a number of cinematography awards.
data-src=https://gcs.creativecow.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/22225333/1-brutus-magazine.jpg alt= class=lazyload wp-image-2408671 data-srcset=https://gcs.creativecow.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/22225333/1-brutus-magazine.jpg 1000w, https://gcs.creativecow.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/22225333/1-brutus-magazine-300x164.jpg 300w, https://gcs.creativecow.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/22225333/1-brutus-magazine-768x420.jpg 768w, https://gcs.creativecow.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/22225333/1-brutus-magazine-624x341.jpg 624w, https://gcs.creativecow.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/22225333/1-brutus-magazine-50x27.jpg 50w, https://gcs.creativecow.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/22225333/1-brutus-magazine-100x55.jpg 100w data-sizes=(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px />In 2020 August, Takimoto was asked by BRUTUS to shoot still photos for an upcoming article about The answer of Love. Holding the shoot on a small island called Izu Oshima, Takimoto convinced BRUTUS executives to also include a short film for the articles.
It was last summer when quarantine had started so I stayed inside and all my shooting works were done in studios. I craved to shoot something real and putting myself in the middle of mother nature, so I chose the desert covered by scoria, dark colored volcanic rock, in Izu Oshima island. Originally, it was only a photo shoot that I was asked to do but many magazines nowadays make movies to accompany its content, and I wanted to try a new kind of art using Blackmagic URSA Mini Pro 12K, so I decided to shoot the movie as well, said Takimoto.
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The movie includes an impressive dance scene shot in high speed. I shot the dance scene mostly in 60 fps, and for some shots, I used 120 fps. It is beneficial that the camera allowed me to shoot in high speed with high resolution as I did not need to borrow extra cameras dedicated to do high speed shooting, saving me having to bother about setting up and carrying it around.
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Grading for the URSA Mini Pro 12K footage was done using DaVinci Resolve Studio. Takimoto said: What I cared the most about when grading was to match the tone of the Blackmagic RAW image to the film tone of the photos I took. Generally, digital camera images tend to look too clean, so I asked my colorist to keep the filmic look and also to get a rather natural tone, not heavy color styling this time.
It was tight schedule because I was on location and had to shoot both movie and photos. However, the compact set up of the URSA Mini Pro 12K allowed me to shoot effectively. I am no
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BRUTUS Magazine's Latest Featured Film Shot on URSA Mini Pro 12K By Mikiya Takimoto 
