{"id":15552,"date":"2011-10-25T03:16:49","date_gmt":"2011-10-25T03:16:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/philipbloom.net\/?p=15552"},"modified":"2011-10-26T10:06:43","modified_gmt":"2011-10-26T10:06:43","slug":"anthonyvizzari","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/philipbloom.net\/blog\/anthonyvizzari\/","title":{"rendered":"Booths and Bodies: Short documentary shot on Sony NEX 5N"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Right off the back of shooting an Epic (forgive the pun) corporate doco for Kessler Crane with the Epic, F3, AF100<\/a>, on my way back home I stopped off at a friend of Sarah’s from when she lived in the US, Anthony Vizzari.<\/p>\n

Anthony has an amazing story to tell, and you can read about it on his blog here.\u00a0<\/a>\u00a0When she told me about his story I wanted to make a short documentary on him, just touching on a small part of his life. Mainly his business. The vintage camera shop, \u00a0photobooth business and of course what drives him.<\/p>\n

I have been wanting to try out the NEX5N for a proper project for ages but didn’t trust it enough for a paid gig, so this was perfect. It has an APS-C chip in it, takes Nikon lenses with my MTF Services adaptor and shoots AVCHD. My version is an EU one so shoots 25p and 50p in full HD.<\/p>\n

So we popped over to Anthony’s shop in the Chicago Suburbs<\/a>\u00a0to make the film and of course buy some of his incredible vintage cameras. We spent around 6 hours there. 2 hours or so for the interview then set ups and b-roll.<\/p>\n

Kit wise I used my Kessler Crane PB Pocket Dolly<\/a>, Miller Compass 20 tripod, Shape semi cage (so I had somewhere to mount the monitor!), the amazing 5.6″ TV Logic monitor, the Switronix Torch LED as my only light which did a sterling job, Tascam DR100 and Sanken COS-11DBP XLR lav mic.<\/p>\n

The cage of course made the rig bigger but with no not shoe mount on the NEX5N I couldn’t just stick it on top of the camera which would have been my number one option for a camera of this size.<\/p>\n

Lenses were the Samyang 35mm F1.4, Tokina 11-16, Zeiss 85mm F1,4 and Zeiss 100mm Macro.<\/p>\n

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Music is from withetiquette.com <\/a>and the new Vimeo Music Service.<\/p>\n

The main track is by Cars and trains. Check out the rest of the album here.<\/a> It’s was only $99 to license the track for the piece so well worth it.<\/p>\n

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The end track is Spring by Daniel Dixon available again from withetiquette.com here<\/a><\/p>\n

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I graded it all with Red Giant Software’s Magic Bullet Looks and gave it a some film grain too. Don’t forget you can get 20% off all Magic Bullet products with the code bloom20 at checkout!<\/a><\/p>\n

I am very happy with the documentary, though I will probably do some further tweaks later this week (EDIT: done 7 revisions. Now it’s done and am happy!). It’s long at just over 9 minutes, but I think it should hold your attention, especially if you love cameras.<\/p>\n

Big thanks to Sarah Estela and of course Anthony himself. Check out his site at AnthonyVizarri.com<\/a>, his vintage camera shop site here<\/a>\u00a0and his photobooth business here.<\/a><\/p>\n

I will of course give the camera a full write up in the more detailed blog to follow in the next few days, I just wanted to get the film up first. I am really pleased with the image, very filmic…although it overheated quite a few times which was a massive pain, and this was with or without the monitor plugged in.<\/p>\n

Oh and before you ask…yes I bought a number of cameras from him, love that Horizon!<\/p>\n

A warning though there are some disturbing images in the film and one f bomb so be aware before watching!<\/strong><\/h4>\n