Blackmagic Cameras used to shoot sugar documentary

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Blackmagic Cameras used to shoot sugar documentary --

Tue, 09 Dec 2014 09:54

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That Sugar Film, a documentary by director Damon Gameau which recently premiered at the International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam, was shot using the Blackmagic Cinema Camera and Production Camera 4K. The film was graded using DaVinci Resolve.

The film aims to uncover how sugar affects a healthy body, and features Gameau consuming only foods that are supposedly healthy. The experiment takes him around the world to visit various people and grocery stores. The production schedule was divided into two parts: a global travel shoot with minimal equipment; and an intense set of green screen productions, which resulted in 200 VFX shots interspersed throughout the film. For the travel based footage, the team primarily shot on the Blackmagic Cinema Camera, while using the Production Camera 4K for green screen shots.

Cinematographer Judd Overton said it was really important to make the film accessible, educational and entertaining for both children and adults, which meant making it as visual as possible. This meant including a large amount of green screen work and VFX shots, and so travelling was done with an entire production kit packed in their backpacks.

For me, the Blackmagic cameras are about the latitude and great image I can get in such a small, easy to carry design, said Overton. With the 40 day worldwide road trip we were on, I shot in ProRes and mostly handheld or on my shoulder with a small rig. It really was amazing to be able to throw a couple of cinema quality cameras in my backpack and just go to where the shots needed to happen.

For the green screen productions Overton shot in RAW on the Production Camera 4K. He explained that he was looking for high resolution and the ability to shoot in RAW to get everything he could out of the shots. Once footage was shot, the offline edit was completed at production company Madman Production, with online, VFX and final grading using DaVinci Resolve at VFX head Seth Larney s home studio in Australia.

The image quality, latitude and ability to easily grade and push around footage with the Blackmagic cameras were perfect for the film. And I love how the cameras made the entire post workflow so easy, said Overton. I have been a Blackmagic camera customer since the first camera shipped, and this film really showed how powerful they are for getting amazing images and being flexible enough to use in any shooting environment.

Watch The Sugar Film trailer

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