{"id":27623,"date":"2012-10-16T22:00:40","date_gmt":"2012-10-16T22:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/philipbloom.net\/?p=27623"},"modified":"2012-10-18T22:29:33","modified_gmt":"2012-10-18T22:29:33","slug":"capetown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/philipbloom.net\/blog\/capetown\/","title":{"rendered":"South Africa 2: New mini doc &#8220;Portrait of a projectionist&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/gopb.co\/pbdolly\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter lazyload\" title=\"pbpd800X80\" data-src=\"http:\/\/staging.philipbloom.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/pbpd800X80-670x67.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"670\" height=\"67\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 670px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 670\/67;\" \/><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"pbpd800X80\" src=\"http:\/\/staging.philipbloom.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/pbpd800X80-670x67.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"670\" height=\"67\" \/><\/noscript><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/wig.bz\/w\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter lazyload\" title=\"0123-Philip-Bloom-Web-Banner-670-x-67px\" data-src=\"http:\/\/staging.philipbloom.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/0123-Philip-Bloom-Web-Banner-670-x-67px.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"670\" height=\"67\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 670px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 670\/67;\" \/><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"0123-Philip-Bloom-Web-Banner-670-x-67px\" src=\"http:\/\/staging.philipbloom.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/0123-Philip-Bloom-Web-Banner-670-x-67px.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"670\" height=\"67\" \/><\/noscript><\/a><\/p>\n<h1><a href=\"http:\/\/philipbloom.net?p=27396\">You can win incredible gear or software worth thousands by donating to the prostate cancer fundraiser here! Great cause great prizes!!!<\/a><\/h1>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"272\" data-src=\"http:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/51534371?title=1&amp;byline=1&amp;portrait=1&amp;color=ffffff\" width=\"640\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" class=\"lazyload\" data-load-mode=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/51534371\">Portrait of a projectionist<\/a> from <a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/philipbloom\">Philip Bloom<\/a> on <a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\">Vimeo<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div>My south Africa workshop tour is almost over. Johannesburg and Cape Town are wrapped with just Durban left, then off to a game reserve for a few days. <a href=\"http:\/\/philipbloom.netevents\/sa\/\">There is some space in Durban, if interested click here!!<\/a><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p><div>Teaching is enormous fun&#8230;but the idea of coming to South Africa and not creating films or telling stories would have been upsetting. So I have set out to make a short doc in each of the places I visit. Durban may be tough as I am there for such a short period of time and have no full day off&#8230;but I will try. There is always the Londolozi game reserve afterwards.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p><div>For my Cape Town film I really didn&#8217;t know what I wanted the story to be about.<a href=\"http:\/\/philipbloom.net2012\/10\/12\/ponte\/\"> Johannesburg was the epic Ponte Tower doc which in underneath this film&#8230;It was an uplifting film about a miserable place, with epic visuals.<\/a>..all shot on the Blackmagic Camera. I wanted something so utterly different&#8230;and something that didn&#8217;t simply tread over familiar ground. Ponte had not been done astonishingly enough! Most of the stories suggested to me for Cape Town either had been done or simply didn&#8217;t connect with me or excite me.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p><div>We were heading out to try and find something as I only had the one day off to get the film done&#8230;we went off to pick up Humphrey Bande who knew a few people, to see if we could find something. Dale then pulled up outside the place where Humphrey was working, a theatre. I said to Dale &#8220;Is this an old movie theatre?&#8221; he replied &#8220;no, but there is one here just like that&#8221;. I knew straightway that was what I wanted to go and film. An old celluloid movie theatre. The type that have almost all gone these days. I really wanted to make this film before they have become extinct.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p><div><a href=\"http:\/\/philipbloom.net?p=27396\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter lazyload\" title=\"TeamBloomTache\" data-src=\"http:\/\/staging.philipbloom.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/TeamBloomTache.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"670\" height=\"134\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 670px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 670\/134;\" \/><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"TeamBloomTache\" src=\"http:\/\/staging.philipbloom.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/TeamBloomTache.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"670\" height=\"134\" \/><\/noscript><\/a><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p><div>Heading off to the slightly ooh-aah named &#8220;Labia Theatre,&#8221; we found out that Coco Van Oppens (who I knew and was taking photos of the workshop here) knew the owner. So she phoned up, explained and we were in.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p><div>Straightaway I went up the projection booth to meet the projectionist Redwaan (I thought he was called Red One which made me chuckle!) He was a delightful man who had been working there for 24 years but been in projection booths since he was 7. We talked, I explained what I wanted to do, he was a little bit nervous but said OK.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p><div><a href=\"http:\/\/staging.philipbloom.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/PB-Labia-1050341.jpg\" data-lightbox=\"gal[27623]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-27626 lazyload\" title=\"PB Labia-1050341\" data-src=\"http:\/\/staging.philipbloom.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/PB-Labia-1050341-670x502.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"670\" height=\"502\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/philipbloom.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/PB-Labia-1050341-670x502.jpg 670w, https:\/\/philipbloom.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/PB-Labia-1050341-310x232.jpg 310w, https:\/\/philipbloom.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/PB-Labia-1050341.jpg 1800w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 670px) 100vw, 670px\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 670px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 670\/502;\" \/><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-27626\" title=\"PB Labia-1050341\" src=\"http:\/\/staging.philipbloom.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/PB-Labia-1050341-670x502.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"670\" height=\"502\" srcset=\"https:\/\/philipbloom.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/PB-Labia-1050341-670x502.jpg 670w, https:\/\/philipbloom.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/PB-Labia-1050341-310x232.jpg 310w, https:\/\/philipbloom.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/PB-Labia-1050341.jpg 1800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 670px) 100vw, 670px\" \/><\/noscript><\/a><\/div>\n<div>So using the loaned 1DX from Canon South Africa (mine has gone kaput and needs to repaired back home), a few lenses, my Zacuto target shooter rig \/ Z finder, Miller DS20, Roland R26, Sanken Cos 11, Rode NTG2 and Rode Stereo Video Mic pro, we started filming.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p><div>We had no additional lights with us, as the plan had been to shoot outside&#8230;so now that I was faced with a more challenging situation, it was a case of getting Redwaan to stand in the right spot to make the most of the available light&#8230;.bouncing a 3200k spot fixture onto a wall to give Redwaan the key he needed and shooting at 1250 at F1.8 (slightly too shallow to be honest, as focus was a little tricky) I got a nice looking shot&#8230;except no catchlight. So I got Humphrey to hold a movie poster the white side forward and up high to give that essential catch light into out subject&#8217;s eyes&#8230;so important, as without this the eyes are lost.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p><div>Audio was recorded on the excellent Roland R26 external recorder and the lovely Sanken Cos11 lav mic hard wired in. So warm and rich, that mic!<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p><div>Reference and back up b-roll sound was the excellent Rode Stereo Video Mic Pro.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p><div>12 minutes later, the interview was done and one of his films was late to start! \ud83d\ude42<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p><div>Redwaan was a pleasure to interview. Really warm, honest and genuine. He had a huge number of rich fascinating stories. As a huge film buff, listening to them was a massive pleasure. What we had in this theatre is so special to me&#8230;it&#8217;s places like this that made me love cinema so much and made me adore film in my eternal quest to make my video look as much like film as possible.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p><div>After that, it was time to get the awesome Canon 100mm L macro out and film lots of details of the projector and film itself! Such wonderful machines! Dale did record b-roll on the NTG 2 too, but I actually ended up using the sound of the Stereo top mic as it sounded pretty damn good, since I was close to the audio source.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p><div>A few handheld shots on the Zacuto rig of Redwaan resetting the projector next followed by a little bit of splicing and we were almost done. A shot of him from inside the theatre looking through the window and the job&#8217;s a good &#8216;un!<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p><div>Two hours after arriving, we were wrapped and we had a great story. I did do a few extra shots in the lobby, the concession stand, ticket booth and inside the theatre, but they were totally superfluous for the story I wanted to tell. Best to get them just in case though&#8230;you never know!<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p><div>Shooting tight and fast is what I do. Having a news background taught me well. I don&#8217;t need to spend all day getting in their way at the theatre. I don&#8217;t need to shoot 6 hours of rushes. I don&#8217;t need to do a 2-hour interview. I just need <em>enough <\/em>time. That&#8217;s all&#8230;and what I got was easily enough. I know when I&#8217;ve got what I need&#8230;that is when I stop. This will come to you with experience if you don&#8217;t have this. Always better to overshoot than undershoot though!<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p><div>I adore the image out of the 1DX and I still love to shoot on DSLRs. I love the size and the freedom it offers you. My C300 is still my favourite camera, but I didn&#8217;t bring it with me. It was that or the FS700, and super slow motion would come in super handy for the Safari shoot and for the workshops&#8230;BUT that full frame image&#8230;yum! The Mk3 image is great, but the 1Dx is exceptional and very filmic. That is why I bought one.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p><div>Yes, it still means dual system sound, but that&#8217;s pretty easy. (although nowhere near as easy as XLR inputs on a proper video camera!)<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p><div>That full frame look cannot be replicated by a super 35mm sensor, it&#8217;s so unique. I love it. That is why there is still a very massive use for DSLRs in real work, mainly the full frame ones.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p><div>Lenses used were the Canon 50mm F1.2 for the interview. The Rokinon Cine 24mm T1.5 for the walking shots. The Canon 100mm L macro for all the detail shots. The Rokinon 14mm Cine T3.1 for the two massive wides. For the shot of Redwaan in the booth from the theatre, I used my 70-200 F4.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p><div>All editing was done in CS6 and all grading in Colorista II. Film grain was added as a mark of respect!!<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p><div><a href=\"http:\/\/www.redgiantsoftware.com\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter lazyload\" title=\"redgiant_banner3\" data-src=\"http:\/\/staging.philipbloom.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/redgiant_banner3-670x35.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"670\" height=\"35\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 670px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 670\/35;\" \/><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"redgiant_banner3\" src=\"http:\/\/staging.philipbloom.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/redgiant_banner3-670x35.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"670\" height=\"35\" \/><\/noscript><\/a><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p><div>Film is sadly dead now. This breaks my heart &#8211; it has been so important to me growing up and basically is the reason I am doing now what I am doing. This film captures the last dying heartbeats of a magical thing and the joy and sadness of a man who symbolises the love that we have for this wonderful thing called film. I hope when people watch this they will remember what seeing a movie on film actually was like and how special it was. Most of us won&#8217;t ever see a film projected on 35mm ever again. That is terribly sad thing.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p><div><a href=\"http:\/\/staging.philipbloom.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/PB-Labia-1050323.jpg\" data-lightbox=\"gal[27623]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-27627 lazyload\" title=\"PB Labia-1050323\" data-src=\"http:\/\/staging.philipbloom.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/PB-Labia-1050323-670x502.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"670\" height=\"502\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/philipbloom.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/PB-Labia-1050323-670x502.jpg 670w, https:\/\/philipbloom.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/PB-Labia-1050323-310x232.jpg 310w, https:\/\/philipbloom.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/PB-Labia-1050323.jpg 1800w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 670px) 100vw, 670px\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 670px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 670\/502;\" \/><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-27627\" title=\"PB Labia-1050323\" src=\"http:\/\/staging.philipbloom.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/PB-Labia-1050323-670x502.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"670\" height=\"502\" srcset=\"https:\/\/philipbloom.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/PB-Labia-1050323-670x502.jpg 670w, https:\/\/philipbloom.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/PB-Labia-1050323-310x232.jpg 310w, https:\/\/philipbloom.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/PB-Labia-1050323.jpg 1800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 670px) 100vw, 670px\" \/><\/noscript><\/a><\/div>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"360\" data-src=\"http:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/51295174?title=1&amp;byline=1&amp;portrait=1&amp;color=ffffff\" width=\"640\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" class=\"lazyload\" data-load-mode=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/51295174\">Ponte Tower<\/a> from <a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/philipbloom\">Philip Bloom<\/a> on <a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\">Vimeo<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fb-background-color\">\n\t\t\t  <div \n\t\t\t  \tclass = \"fb-comments\" \n\t\t\t  \tdata-href = \"https:\/\/philipbloom.net\/blog\/capetown\/\"\n\t\t\t  \tdata-numposts = \"10\"\n\t\t\t  \tdata-lazy = \"true\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-colorscheme = \"light\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-order-by = \"social\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-mobile=true>\n\t\t\t  <\/div><\/div>\n\t\t  <style>\n\t\t    .fb-background-color {\n\t\t\t\tbackground:  !important;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t.fb_iframe_widget_fluid_desktop iframe {\n\t\t\t    width: 100% !important;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t  <\/style>\n\t\t  ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":27628,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[93],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[5853,464,5852,5849,5851,292,5856,5854,2892,631,448,5857,5107,5103,5848,5850,5105,5104,3925,5855],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/philipbloom.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27623"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/philipbloom.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/philipbloom.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philipbloom.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philipbloom.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27623"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/philipbloom.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27623\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philipbloom.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27628"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/philipbloom.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philipbloom.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philipbloom.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27623"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philipbloom.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=27623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}