ABSTRACT

Technical data: Shot on a Canon 5D Mark II with Sigma 24-70 mm f/2.8 lens. Audio recorded with a Sennheiser MKH-416 microphone on an M-Audio Microtrack 2 digital audio recorder. Files converted to MPEG. Postproduction software: Final Cut Pro, Twister plug-in in After Effects (for 24P pulldown), Color Finesse 2.0 and the Tiffen DFX 2.0 fi lters, graduated NDs, vignettes, selective saturation, and so forth. Neat Video plug-in for noise reduction (Pro version). Images cropped and conformed to 1.85 aspect ratio for 35 mm fi lm transfer, providing a 1920 × 1037 resolution, direct-to-positive or direct-toprint transfer at Technicolor USA using Cinevator (manufactured by a company from Norway called Cinevation).