The Durrells ITV series uses the Micro cameras of Blackmagic in its production

The Durrells ITV series uses the Micro cameras of Blackmagic in its production In order to capture as much as possible angles and interesting details, the director, Steve Barron, and the director of photography, Sam Renton, they looked for a small camera that would allow them to achieve this objective.

Cinematographer Sam Renton is using Micro Cinema Camera units of Blackmagic in order to capture details and shoot action scenes for the second season of The Durrellswritten by prominent writer Simon Nye and produced by Sid Gentle Films for the British network ITV.

Directed by Steve Barron, The Durrells It is based on the autobiographical trilogy of Gerald Durrell on the period during which lived with his family in Corfu between 1935 and 1939.

In order to capture as much as possible angles and interesting details, Barron and Renton looked for a small camera that would allow them to achieve this objective.

"The quality of the performances, the script and production in a series like this requires a total coverage of every scene. Given the tight deadlines, the model Micro Cinema Camera allowed us to quickly capture additional angles that otherwise would have been impossible to achieve, said Renton.

"Interchangeable frame and the possibility to control the focal length offered us the opportunity to shoot in a very similar way to as we do with other cameras." We could prepare a unit and leave it running, even for record by time intervals, and the material obtained was a very superior to which it had managed in the previous season. Didnt have no problem to collate it with the rest of the images ", he added."

The importance of details

The objective of Barron and Renton was to capture special moments and put cameras in places that it was not possible to access other models because of their size. "A clear example of this is the press for olives, which in the 1930s was a donkey-driven", explains Renton. "We wanted to get a close-up of the wheel grinding the olives, and the only way to get it was holding a Micro Cinema Camera to the swivel arm to focus on it from above. Despite being only a detail, this is what engages the Viewer".

Also remember a pivotal moment in which the camera was filled expectations. "I was in the rear of the car we used for the action scenes, a close-up recording with the main camera in hand, but he had no time to prepare a second unit. I grabbed a Micro Cinema Camera, attached it to the vehicle and I could quickly obtain a profile of the driver and its passenger plane. With the main camera, we had delayed a lot in achieving this task. On the contrary, Blackmagic not only model allowed us to do it in five minutes, but we could also record two outlets at the same time".

Renton destac asimismo la calidad de imagen natural de la c mara y el hecho de que no es necesario preocuparse por el origen del material grabado durante la etapa de posproducci n.

El sensor ofrece una latitud muy amplia, y logramos captar dicho rango din mico filmando en formato CinemaDNG RAW. Incluso pudimos aplicar filtros de densidad neutra para obtener una profundidad de campo consistente, y fue sumamente sencillo trabajar con el material RAW durante el intermedio digital para hacerlo coincidir con las dem s im genes. El modelo Micro Cinema Camera es muy intuitivo y nos permiti contar la historia desde una perspectiva que, de otra manera, hubiera sido imposible de lograr , concluy .

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