Sundance Film Being Evel Completed Using Blackmagic Cameras, Teranex and DaVinci Resolve

Blackmagic Design today announced that the film Being Evel was shot using Blackmagic Cinema Cameras, and post production was completed using Teranex 2D Processors and DaVinci Resolve. Co created by Jackass star Johnny Knoxville, along with director, co creator and Oscar winner Daniel Junge, the documentary will make its world premier at the 2015 Sundance Film Festival.

Millions know the man, but few know his story. In BEING EVEL, Academy Award-winning filmmaker Daniel Junge and actor/producer Johnny Knoxville take a candid look at American daredevil and icon Robert Evel Knievel, while also reflecting on our voracious public appetite for heroes and spectacle.

To capture the life of one of the most colorful celebrities of the 20th century, director Daniel Junge, who won a 2012 Academy Award for Best Documentary Short and a 2012 Emmy for Best Documentary for his film Saving Face, shot over 60 interviews to compliment a host of rich archival materials. To accomplish this, Junge and the film's producers at HeLo chose to use Blackmagic Cinema Cameras as the main cameras for the production, as well as Teranex 2D Processors for extensive conversions and DaVinci Resolve for color correction.

With Evel Knievel, most people know his name, but many people do not know his life. When making this film, we wanted to capture the spirit of Evel in a way that would do him justice. Blackmagic's products let us bring to life the vision we had for the film and do it in a way that was efficient and within our budget, said Junge.

Shot with Blackmagic Cinema Cameras in ProRes, the film's interviews were done in various locations across the country in green screen studios so that compositing on each shot could be done later with archival footage and effects. Each interview was shot from various angles using four Blackmagic Cinema Cameras, which were then composited into a single unique backdrop for the film.

We needed four cameras with the same high latitude, that could shoot in ProRes and be easily packed up as we scrambled from interview to interview. Most of the shots had multiple composites in them, and we had a large number of different types of environments with each set, said Junge. With the Blackmagic cameras, the color space of each was great, and we were able to get beautiful images. The cameras captured a huge amount of information which came right out of the camera ready to use in post. Having four cameras performing at that level and at that price was amazing.

Once the interviews were captured, newly shot and archival footage going back to the 1950s had to be converted using the Teranex 2D Processor. All footage was sent through the Teranex 2D Processor, where an initial color balance was completed, and then footage was converted to 1080p. Final color correction was done using DaVinci Resolve, which was also used prior to shooting interviews to create LUTs to ensure that all of the interviews had a specific look and feel.

Every piece of footage we used went through the Teranex. The Teranex was quick and we easily pushed our way through footage no matter what sort of format we were working with. And we got footage in everything from high end digital to Super8 and VHS tapes, said James Dur e, compositor of Milkhaus, who provided post production services for the film. In particular, being able to color balance in the Teranex saved a lot of time down the line and made final color correction with Resolve much more efficient.

Being Evel will premiere at the 2015 Sundance Film Festival on Sunday, January 25th.

About Blackmagic Design

Blackmagic Design creates the world's highest quality video editing products, digital film cameras, color correctors, video converters, video monitoring, routers, live production switchers, disk recorders, waveform monitors and real time film scanners for the feature film, post production and television broadcast industries. Blackmagic Design's DeckLink capture cards launched a revolution in quality and affordability in post production, while the company's Emmy award winning DaVinci color correction products have dominated the television and film industry since 1984. Blackmagic Design continues ground breaking innovations including 6G-SDI and 12G-SDI products and stereoscopic 3D and Ultra HD workflows. Founded by world leading post production editors and engineers, Blackmagic Design has offices in the USA, UK, Japan, Singapore and Australia. For more information, please go to www.blackmagicdesign.com.

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