26/11 - Movie

Well... Know a lot of things about this feature since i worked on it for almost 9 months and then left the project.. :)
RGV started shooting this before the release of department and before the shooting of bhoot returns 3d. He is a crazy and intelligent man i would say.
Movie was shot with a wide range of camera systems : Red Epic , Red Scarlet , Canon 5D Mark 3 , Canon 5D Mark 2, Canon 7D, Canon 60D, Panasonic Lumix GH2, Gopro Hero 1 and 2. pretty much all run and gun digital systems.
Completely edited on Premiere Pro CS6 ( i guess it's first mainstream bollywood movie to be edited on cs6 )
Visual effects fully completed on Nuke and AfterEffects
D.I done at Prime Focus with Baselight and footages conformed with Autodesk Smoke
Dailies for Red camera's done through RedCine_X Pro by myself :)
Shot Sync Sound for almost all portions featuring Nana Patekar

Visual effects and Editing Facility : FXS ( Fx School)Mumbai
Camera Rental : Just Video for Red Epic and FX School for all other camera's

Releasing March 1 almost after a year . See it in 2K Digital Screen

Theatrical Trailer

 

The Alexa's ... Upgraded

Well... Seems Arri and Codex has fused their products into one and has upgraded the former's digital cinema camera solution - The Arri Alexa camera's to the new Arri Alexa XR and XT. Now old alexa users will be allowed to upgrade ( dont know whether for free :) ) their model's to xr model's which will feature an internal codex onboard capture drive that will capture ARRIRAW data into the 512 gig drive upto 120 fps 2.8k Res.

 Read all about it at arri-alexa-xr-and-xt

Now that's cool thought by arri but still they are yet to come up with any camera shooting above 3k digital in this age when Red has already released their first screengrabs from the new Red Dragon which shoots 6k at a staggering 86 fps. Still i keep fingers crossed for the 4k arri that's long due...

To the alexa owners in india... primarily prime focus and anand cine service.. have a good time upgrading your camera's... Upcoming features shot on Arri Alexa in India :
Ek Thi Daayan (Arriraw on Codex)
Shootout at Wadala (mix of alexa and epic)
Nikhil Advani's D-Day (Arriraw on Gemini recorder)
Dhoom 3 (Arriraw on Codex)
Anurag Kashyap's Ugly
Selvaraghavan's Raja Rani

well... there are a lot more....  anyways waiting to watch kai po che this weekend... :)

more and more...!

Well.... its been some days since the last post... the reason being simple... i dont know what's happening actually... Indian film industry is quite reserved on the techie side of their films... rarely camera's used,technology used comes to the media actually... i hope it will change for good when i'm back in the industry again..:p
anyways... the digital cinema industry is flourishing day by day in india...no two opinions on that... This feb released david, any body can dance which were shot on the red epic's and bhatt's latest in murder series most likely shot with alexa's... next week rock on director abhishek kapoor's kai po che will grace theatre's and it was shot by a newcomer d.o.p ayan goswami on the red epic.... and ace cinematographer and only a.s.c member in india santosh shivan tweeted that his upcoming period drama 'Ceylon' was filmed completely on red epic and red scarlet.... i seriously have plans to rope him as the d.o.p for my first movie...:)

also just watch this video directed by 'David Fincher' featuring justin timberlake shot on 6 red epic monochrome black and white camera's.... well.... with money in hands you can't stop any fincher..