{"id":22926,"date":"2012-02-21T15:37:09","date_gmt":"2012-02-21T15:37:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/philipbloom.net\/?p=22926"},"modified":"2012-02-21T17:54:07","modified_gmt":"2012-02-21T17:54:07","slug":"hardboiledsweets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/philipbloom.net\/blog\/hardboiledsweets\/","title":{"rendered":"Hard Boiled Sweets: Brit gangster feature film shot on the 5DmkII. An in depth look at making the movie."},"content":{"rendered":"

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Hard Boiled Sweets is a British gangster movie set in the Essex town of Southend a mixture of Elmore Leonard \u00a0and film Noir…but set in England. I watched the finished film yesterday and it was a brilliant, entertaining movie. The added cool thing is this was shot entirely on a Canon 5DmkII and it looks fantastic.<\/p>\n

I have speaking to director David LG Hughes for quite some time about the project and I was asked to be DP for it. A very flattering offer but due to my overseas work commitments for the scheduled shoot and my limited experience in drama work at that point, my main field being documentary I was not able to do it…but he got the excellent Sara Deane to lens it for him. It really is a beautiful looking film.<\/p>\n

David, Sara and colourist Gavin have kindly written some words for me about the film, their influences, the shoot, dealing with the DSLR limitations and of course post.<\/p>\n

The film opens at the Empire Leicester Square on March 9th and will play for the rest of the month. It debuts on blu ray the following month. If you want to see a terrific british film on the big screen then get down there and if you have never seen a 5DmkII movie on the big screen now is your chance, as Red Tails doesn’t look like it is getting a release outside of the US!<\/p>\n