With the next generation of raw cinema cameras you can finally shoot professionally with uncompressed raw motion picturesâwithout compromising your image or your budget. In Cinema Raw: Shooting and Color Grading with the Ikonoskop, Digital Bolex, and Blackmagic Cinema Cameras, Lancaster takes you through the birth of these new cameras and includes an exclusive behind-the-scenes look at Digital Bolex. He field tests each camera and discusses the importance of shooting in raw and guides you through the raw color grading process so you can create stunning films. Interviews with professionals who have shot documentaries, shorts, and promotionals with these cameras are featured throughout, allowing you to learn field production techniques under real world conditions.
- Recommended gear lists to begin your raw shooting experience
Trade Review
"Lancaster's Cinema Raw provides a great overview and history on the recent but densely complicated process of raw video shooting and capture."
- Jon Yi, 16mm and digital cinematography professor at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts, www.jonathanyi.com
"Cinema Raw is essential for educators, students, and practitioners who want to understand new technologies and how to harness them for the kind of quality in our filmmaking that, until recently, was just a dream for those without the backing of millions of dollars in production support."
-Ellen Spiro, documentary film professor at the University of Texas, Austin; winner, The National Board of Review for Body of War; www.spirofilms.com
"Kurt Lancaster gets you where you need to be so you can make this incredible but complicated recording format work for you. He also tells you why it’s not for every job. With the essential knowledge found in Cinema Raw you will save hours, days, and possibly weeks of your time."
-Philip Bloom, filmmaker, www.philipbloom.net
Table of Contents
Part I: Getting the Raw Deal
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- Introduction: What Camera to Choose? What Story To Tell?—DSLRs, RED, Sony, and the Promise of Cinema Raw With the Next Generation of Low Budget Cinema Cameras
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- Creating a New Paradigm: Behind the Scenes in Creating Low Budget Cinema Cameras
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- Is There Really a Difference When Shooting Raw? A Case Study in Shooting Compressed versus Shooting Raw
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- Film Gear for Raw Filmmakers: A Low-Budget List
Part II: Raw Production Case Studies [drawn from on-set observations and/or interviews of the filmmakers from existing films]
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- On-camera Features and Menu Selections of Raw Cinema Cameras
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- One Small Step: Shooting with the Digital Bolex D16
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- Shooting with Blackmagic’s Digital Cinema Camera
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- Shooting with Ikonoskop’s A-Cam dII
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- Shooting with Weisscam’s T-CAM
Part III Raw Postproduction
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- Postproduction Workflow—Getting the Footage onto the Computer and Editing with raw
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- Color Correcting and Color Grading with Raw
Conclusion—The Future of Low Budget Digital Filmmaking
