| New Rogue Zerb 2009 article on new F35 |
|
 |
|
|
| Brand new article, written by Daniel Mulligan from Rogue Films, on the technical aspects of the F35 plus a look at the new Hawk Anamorphics. Kindly reprinted from www.gtc.org.uk |
|
 |
|
|
|
|
| Tapeless workflows for 2009 : Buttons talks... |
|
|
| Please read here two articles on tapeless aquisition for 2009, one for the Oscar winning Benjamin Buttons and another from Digilab - London discussing tapeless images. Also link below to a new Quicktime movie from Peter Mavromates, the Post Supervisor on Benjamin Buttons, where he talks about the tapeless workflows employed on Buttons. |
|
Benjamin Buttons |
|
Digilab |
|
Peter Mavromates |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Rogue Element Films completes first F35 tapeless commercial |
|
|
| Rogue has wrapped a commercial shot on the F35 completely to data, completing a fully tapeless shoot. Rogue supplied both the hardware and the technical team to complete the shoot. Recording to hard drives as DPX images the post house now has fully uncompressed images for its green screen, giving exceptionally clean images for keying. More to follow with on set images and post report. |
|
|
|
Rogue Element Films wraps F35 (2 x F35 camera systems)
Feature in South Africa |
|
|
| Rogue has just completed a 2 x F35 Feature in South Africa called Natalee Holloway for Sony Pictures. More details to follow soon plus a full shoot and post report. |
|
|
|
| Rogue partners Alpha Grip |
|
|
|
|
| Rogue Element Films is pleased to announce a new partnership with industry leading grip supplier Alpha Grip. Being based at Pinewood Studios this will allow both Rogue and Alpha to offer full shoot and grip packages for both sets of clients. |
|
| As well as supplying the very latest in Digital Film equipment Rogue can now offer the very latest in grip equipment, as used on Quantum Of Solace and Inkheart to all its Features and Commercial clients. |
|
Please visit www.alphagrip.co.uk
for more information. |
|
 |
|
|
 |
|
|
|
|
|
| Rogue Element Films and F35 tapeless workflows for 2009 |
|
|
| Rogue Element Films has been working with Digital Film and tapeless workflows now for a number of years starting with the Viper and now the new Sony F35 & F23 Digital Film cameras. |
|
| This enables Rogue and with its digital lab to continue pushing current advances in the latest technologies to offer clients the very best in tapeless workflows for cameras such as Rogues F35/23 and Vipers and the new SI-2K systems just being delivered. |
|
| Rogue has been advocating tapeless workflows now for a number of years and has developed a strong reputation in the industry create a wonderful resource for supplying not only consultation on tapeless workflows but also fully qualified technicians and personnel who understand the equipment required to shoot digital film at its very best and most efficient. |
|
| Read below the articles that Dan Mulligan, MD of Rogue, has written on tapeless workflows and its clear benefits. |
|
Maturing Workflows - NAB2008 Special |
|
Data Mining |
|
LUT Game |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| ..and some quotes here from the Production team working on Benjamin Buttons as to the advantages of a tapeless workflow : |
|
| "Not only was it easier it was cheaper too...overall the crew was much less than any other film going through at that time" |
|
| Cean Chaffin, Producer |
|
|
|
| "....you have reduced crew numbers, you have faster workflow than a film shoot and you have a product that looks like film." |
|
| Cean Chaffin, Producer |
|
|
|
| "We always prefer to shoot without compression so we shoot directly to hard drives." |
|
| Peter Mavromates, Post Supervisor |
|
|
|
| "As a Post Supervisor our dream is to capture on set at full resolution, back it up then load it at full resolution on to a server so I would only go back to the back up tapes (LTO) if something went wrong." |
|
| Peter Mavromates, Post Supervisor |
|
|
|
Quotes taken with kind permission from Buttons article "film in reverse"
in HD Magazine www.definitionmagazine.com |
|
|
|
|
| We currently now have all these tapeless workflows in place plus a rentable server to store your project live on a SAN at full resolution to pull your EDL as native DPXs, instantly. |
|
| E-mail or call Rogue Films for further consultation on tapeless workflows and for shooting F35/data for the ultimate image quality availbale today. |
|
|
|
| New for 2009 Rogue and Digilab London |
|
|
| Rogue Element Films is pleased to announce a full and exciting new working relationship with Digital Film and tapeless workflow specialists Digilab London. This will enable both Rogue and Digilab to continue pushing current advances in new technology to offer clients the very latest in tapeless workflows for cameras such as Rogues F35/23 and Vipers as well as Arri’s D21, Panavision Genesis, Red, SI & Phantoms. |
|
| Rogue has been advocating tapeless workflows now for a number of years and has developed a strong reputation in the industry but by teaming up with Digilab we now have the capabilities of using Digilab’s extensive knowledge of other workflow options and accessing their independent consultancy services for recommending cameras to productions. |
|
|
|
| The new association with Digilab will expand our knowledge and create a wonderful resource for supplying not only consultation on tapeless workflows but also fully qualified technicians and personnel who understand the equipment required to shoot digital film at its very best and most efficient. |
|
Please visit www.digilab-london.com
for more information. |
|
|
|
|
 |
|
|
|
|
| New for 2009 Rogue Mobile Location Facility |
|
|
| Just launched for 2009 is a brand new concept in location facilities for digital film productions. With this new truck you can conduct tasks normally required of a full post facility on location, saving valuable time and money in making your production and extremely quick and efficient process. Full grading and dailies playback in a calibrated suite, offline digitizing to FCP & Avid, archiving to LTO data tape and more. |
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Technical Guides to the F35 |
|
|
| Below are four links to new technical details on the F35 written by Art Adams DP for the Pro Video Coalition. These are excellently well written and researched items on how Art sees the F35 and what it can do. Thankyou to Art Adams and PVC for a well written project. |
|
|
|
|
|
The Not-So-Technical Guide to the Sony F35 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
The Sony F35 and ND Filters |
|
|
|
|
|
|
No 85 Necessary on the F35! |
|
|
|
|
|
|
The Not-So-Technical Guide to S-Log and Log Gamma Curves |
|
|
|
|
| David Fincher: “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button” |
|
|
 |
|
Coming of Age
The most difficult technical challenge in creating a realistic film was in establishing the ages of Pitt and Blanchett in such a way that the prostheses and effects never blocked their performances. [Read More] |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Top End HD – The World of Digital Film |
|
|
| 17 January 2009 - Theatre 7, Pinewood Studios, Bucks |
|
 |
|
| Do you know your Logs from your LUTs? If you are uncertain about the new workflow involved with the 'digital film' way of working or need reassurance about how to assess Raw images on set, then don't miss this cutting edge workshop (free to GTC members) from Dan Mulligan of digital film rental specialists Rogue Element Films. Click Below for more details. |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| New Hawk Anamorphic lenses! |
|
|
|
|
| Rogue is pleased to announce the new 1.3x Hawk Anamorphic lenses for the F35. Capture the full amount of image resolution to the F35 CCD and then de-squeeze the images in post without loosing any resolution from cropping. Go to kit list to download PDFs of the lenes and tech info. |
|
|
|
|
|
Rogue Element Films completes Principle Photography for
BBC Summer Wine 2009 |
|
|
|
|
| Another season for Digital Film rental specialist Rogue Element Films supplying the BBC with Viper, SRW1 and Zeiss lenses, once again proving a winning formula for BBC Last of the Summer Wine. Photography for the series was completed in October 2008 with Dan Mulligan Camera Operating and providing full Viper technical support. |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
 |
|
 |
|
 |
|
|
|
|
| Director of Photography Andrea Chiozzotto discusses his experiences shooting with the Viper for the recent Feature project 'The Papyrus'. This movie was photographed using Viper Filmstream cameras recording to Stwo DFRs as fully uncompressed image data, the same workflow as David Finchers new opus 'The Curious Case of Benjamin Buttons'. |
|
|
|
|
|
|
 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
 |
|
|
|
|
|
| - A full digital data workflow was employed for this Feature shooting around London in March. |
|
| As well as using Stwo Take2 DFRs to record uncompressed 2K imagery we were able to provide ProRes 422 offline copies for editorial as well as employ Iridas mobile colour timing suite to employ LUTs to our images. |
|
| The images here show the unique Stwo/Tangent/Iridas mobile workstation used to not only capture 2K DPX frames natively from the Viper (the digital negative) but also create LUTs onset and colour time our images, a real first for this form of digital film capture. |
|
| Contact us for more details and also see the NAB issue of HD Magazine for a full write up of this workflow and its use. |
|
|
 |
|
|
|
|
| Cherrybomb Feature shoots F23 supplied by Rogue Films |
|
|
|
|
|
|
 |
|
| View the Sony Cherrybomb feature... |
|
| The demand for HD film-making just keeps rising and rising. |
|
 |
|
|
|
|
| DP Dee Elliot : |
|
"The directors and I had discussed many different
formats / cameras for Cherrybomb, and as it was my first choice I was delighted when we were able to go with the F23 package from Rogue Element. It was a joy to use. |
|
Although they had been recommended to me I had no previous experience with Rogue Element, but the back up and support from Dan and his team was excellent.
Now we weren't shooting near London, we were in Belfast where there are no major rental houses (or agents of for that matter). In short, top class service." |
|
Directors: Lisa Barros D'Sa & Glenn Leyburn
DP: Dee Elliott
Focus Puller: Ray Carlin
2nd AC: Ruth Greer |
|
 |
|
|
|
|
|
| the Broader issue - Digital cinematography with no tape in sight |
|
|
| For the third programme in this series on File-based Workflows, our attention turns to the worlds of feature film and commercials production. How are digital cameras and data capture affecting the job of getting movies and ads onto our screens? |
|
| Colin Birch's guests are Dan Mulligan (pictured, seated), cinematographer and owner of Rogue Element Films, and Steve Roach, co-founder of digital recording technology supplier S.Two. |
|
|
 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
| New Rogue Element Films Digital Film Forum Live... |
|
|
 |
|
*Rogue Element Forum*
*Digital Film Forum* F35/D21/Dalsa and more |
|
Brand new Digital Forum
for real time high end
Digital Film Systems |
|
| Click Here to visit the forum |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Pinewood F35 Open day a roaring success |
|
|
 |
|
|
|
| From over 170 registrations we had an overall attendence above 120 for the whole day, totally surpassing our expectations. A great crowd ensured lively discussions all day as well as the chance to show Hawk 1.3x anamorphic lenses, F35, DPX data capture and SR motion. |
|
| Stephen Roach from Stwo discussed uncompressed DPX data systems while I discussed SR and LUTs on set and more. An unqualified success so much so that we will be running more open days and workshops during the remainder of 2008. |
|
| Visit www.f35pinewood.com for more details |
|
|
|
|
|
| One Red Pixel shoots uncompressed DPX frames from F23 |
|
|
 |
|
 |
|
 |
|
|
|
| A first for the UK market One Red Pixel chose the F23 with a fully uncompressed data workflow for their green screen heavy commercial shoot. By shooting DPX frames natively to Dmags they were not only getting extremely clean images but due to them being uncompressed it meant perfect keying and tracking results. |
|
|
|
|
|
A full article on the results will soon follow explaining the full benefits
of uncompressed data workflows. |
|
|
|
| Rogue Element Films & Band Pro Munich present F35 Demo Day... |
|
|
|
|
|
| Rogue shoots new action movie in UK |
|
|
 |
|
 |
|
 |
|
|
|
|
|
| 31north62east, Directed by Tristan Loraine and Photographed by Sue Gibson BSC will wrap photography next week. |
|
| Shooting to Viper with Zeiss lenses and the SRW1 444 Field Recorder this Feature has followed along the same path as David Fincher and Michael Mann in using the Viper Filmstream camera for its main unit. More on this new Film once fully completed. |
|
|
 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Dan Mulligan gives two full interviews to The Reel Show. |
|
| The first talks about the differences between Viper and the Sony F23 and the second demonstrates how to conduct live colour timing on set using CineTal Grade1 24" LCD and Iridas Speedgrade with a Tangent grading panel. |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Click on www.reel-show.tv to see both items. |
|
 |
|
|
|
|
| IBC 2008 World Exclusive : Rogue Element Films and Sony F35 |
|
|
 |
|
Rogue Element Films, the worlds most progressive supplier of high end Digital Cinematography hardware and workflows is pleased to announce the arrival of the very first Sony F35 S35mm CCD system from Band Pro.
|
|
| This marks a real watershed in the progression of Independent Digital Cinematography allowing for 35mm Film Lenses as well as fully uncompressed data capture from Stwo DFRs, as used by David Fincher. |
|
| Rogue is now the only Digital Film Company in the world to offer the F35 in both its native SR capture format or as uncompressed DPX digital negative data. |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Channel 4 Film 4 9PM Stings |
|
|
| Film 4 commissioned Rogue to supply Vipers for their new Film at 9 stings. These were shot at Pinewood using time lapse motion control in Vipers Filmstream Film Capture mode. Recording to HDCAM SR this proved the ideal workflow for the quick Post turnaround. call for SR or Data workflows for 2K or 4K Camera systems. |
|
|
|
|
|
There are 3 movies, click on the links, right to view these.
|
|
|
|
|
|
| If you don't have flash installed you can download it for free <click here> or right click above to download .mov files which you can play in any media player. |
|
|
|
|
|
| Leading Independant Digital Film supplier Rogue Element Films is announcing the aquisition of a new 444 camera system from Sony, the F23. |
|
| This exciting new camera can record Dual Link 444 1080 24/25P Log images with its Cine S-Log setting as well uniquely record to SR tape 50/60P images at both 422 and 444 colour space. |
|
| This enables slow motion content to be recorded direct to the SR tape format via internal hardware boards giving you instant results on set and playback in slow motion, no software rendering or waiting times. |
|
|
 |
|
|
|
|
| Also we can record to disk via Stwo's DFRs. These recorders can record fully uncompressed DPX frames from the F23 up to 50/60P in 422 and instantly playback on set at any selected speed. |
|
| We are the only company in the world offering both HDCAM-SR and Digital Data Recording for all our camera systems and have custom workflows developed for all systems. Our unique position within the industry allows us to offer the very best in Digital Cinematography being complemented by our Digital Film Laboratory based at Pinewood Studios. |
|
|
|
| S.Two Purchase - PRESS RELEASE |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Rogue Element Films purchases S.two digital film system
for uncompressed production and post |
|
|
Reno, NV 14th February 2008 – S.two Corporation has announced that Rogue Element
Films, one of the UK’s most progressive production companies, has become the first
independent production facility to invest in a complete S.two uncompressed digital film
production and post system. |
|
|
|
|
|
| The mobile phone giant MoviStar in Spain used the Viper from Rogue for their new spot promoting the winning of Porsche Cayenne 4x4 cars via texts. 4 stories were devised to show ordinary people 'winning'. |
|
| A Night Club, Supermarket, Village Fisherman and Hitchhiker. After testing the production choose to shoot 444 16:9 Filmstream to SRW1 SR Decks. Post was offered on site with DVCAM offline rushes copied with LUTs applied to them and then flown to Madrid for editorial the next morning. |
|
| All technical DIT services were supplied by Rogue to ensure smooth and efficient |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
 |
|
| Kia have chosen the Viper Filmstream to film the latest CSI Idents for their new cars. The difference here is an all data workflow from photography to offline and post. |
|
| Using the innovative Stwo DFR data recording system we were able to capture full 2K images in real time and playback onset instantly any take at any time. |
|
| Also we were able to offer offline solutions onset at the time of photography. By taking an FCP XML file from the recorded DMAGs we could ingest the captured DPX frames at ProRes 422 1080 via the AJA IoHD box into FCP 6.0.2. |
|
| Further information is available from us as to how a full data realtime 2K workflow will benefit your production. |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Motion Picture 'Abrahams Point' appointed Rogue Element Films to film all of its pick-up shots in January on the Viper Filmstream Camera. Using the Viper's 2.37:1 Aspect Ratio in its Filmstream mode the results cut seemlessly with the main photography. |
|
|
 |
|
|
|
|
Rogue Element Films : Digital Film Cinematography - First ever Viper Digital Feature shot in South Africa - View Story |
|
|
 |
|
 |
|
 |
|
|
|
|
|
 |
|
| Rogue Element Films has just completed Principle Photography on the Motion Picture 'Skin' in South Africa. |
|
| This is the very first Feature Film to use Viper Filmstream Digital Film cameras for a Feature shot in South Africa, again Rogue Element Films exploring first's for Digital Cinematography. |
|
|
|
| By shooting with 2 Vipers to SRW1 and including the new Venom Flashpak for handheld work a perfect workflow was found for this production. With Zeiss lenses and an onset offline package to deliver rushes to post on set this proved to be a seemless and efficient package. |
|
 |
|
|
|
|
| The film is now well into Post Production for release in 2008. Our bespoke packages are tailored to each individual Film whether you wish to shoot to SRW1 SR tape or S.two DFR Take2 Data Recorders. As the UK's leading independant supplier of high end Digital Film services we continue to deliver results with little fuss. |
|
|
|
|
NEW KIT ANNOUNCEMENT Dec 2007 : Venom Flashpak, A-Dock, i-Dock & LTO3
|
|
|
| With an announcement soon of new technology and workflow practices Rogue Digital Film Services is proud to announce the addition of brand new Digital Film Capturing and archiving equipment. Rogue Digital Films firmly believes in high end digital capture as Digital Film Capture and treats each developed DPX frame as a Digital Negative. |
|
| To preserve and record this captured data we have a brand new Venom Flashpak, great for steadicam and handheld work untethered, recording 10 mins of 444 1080P images and 18 mins at 422. Also for full back-up of the captured data we introduce Stwo's i-Dock, A-Dock and LTO3 archiving solution. This backs up all your recorded DPX files to LTO3 magnetic data tape, essentially your Digital Negative. |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| McFly's latest video was shot on the Viper again at 50P for smooth slow motion playback. Using Zeiss DigiPrime Lenses this cut beautifully with the 35mm underwater footage. |
|
| To view the video click below |
|
|
|
|
 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
 |
|
| These series of commercials were shot for the British Army for Pink Films. |
|
| Shooting 1080 25P 16:9 in full 444 Filmstream mode these Vipers really had a cinematic feel to them. |
|
|
 |
|
|
|
|
Rogue Element Films Expands... |
|
|
| Due to unprecedented workload and demand Rogue Element Films is expanding into the world of full Feature Production. We are relocating to Pinewood Studios, UK, the homeplace of the British Film Industry, to offer a full Digital Cinematography Service and workshop. By concentrating on the very best Digital Imaging Photography and Capture techniques we are able to offer the latest aquisition of digitally aquired images and bring them to the very best filmmakers. |
|
| Our workshop will be able to demonstrate the most recent advances in capture, storage and LUT applications, post facilities and the true understanding of what it means to shoot Digitally all in a permanent setting to show you the real ease of which digital images can be captured. |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| CSI: Vegas/Miami/NY & The Shield - Channel 5 Kia Idents |
|
|
|
|
|
|
 |
|
Shooting Anamorphic 2.37:1 at full resolution
with the Viper this spot has used the same techniques as David Fincher with Zodiac to create a look that gives cinema image quality and feel to the latest CH5 idents. |
|
 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
For more details on any of these stories
contact Rogue Element Films... |
