Filming a vision
A unique cinema experience with Pro HD
Dito El Niño Despertador (roughly Filming took place in Colombia and Miguel Yusty was familiar with the
translated as Dito: The Alarm
was supported by local institutions GY-HD100 as he is also professor of
Clock Kid) is the result of the
with technical support from JVC. The speciality Digital Cinema in CICE Media
enthusiasm of Miguel Ernesto
screenplay was written by Miguel Ernesto School, Madrid. The Dito team devised
Yusty, a filmmaker who has worked
Yusty and is about a restless six-year- a workflow that included the use of film
lenses and a recording/capturing stage
in Spain and Colombia on various
old child called Dito who visits ‘El Loco
Viera’, his neighbour and toy inventor, with uncompressed HD 720p/50 on
film production and direction
every weekend, who no longer knows how external disk, using the tape only as a
projects, and the producer, Ivan
to stop the child visiting. While his host back up. “HDV is an interesting format for
Benjumea, post coordinator of
isn’t watching, Dito drinks the contents of digital cinema, low budget, independent
Tesela, one of the most important
some small bottles that he finds; this is the productions. The key is choosing the
Spanish production houses at the
opportunity that El Loco was waiting for, appropriate camera - in our case, we
forefront of digital cinema. The
telling Dito that he has drunk some iodine decided to use JVC ProHD cameras as
ProHD cameras helped to capture and that in two hours time, everything will we like JVC’s philosophy of considering
the tender atmosphere of the film. stick inside him. What happens over these
the design and open engineering of
next two hours is what’s revealed in this the cameras. I have to highlight the
short film, described as a tender thriller. interchangeable lenses of the ProHD
concept too.”
Dito’s Director of Photography, Manu
Alvarez, used the GY-HD251 and
“Working in HD was a
GY-HD110 cameras, along with the optical
significant economic saving for us”
adapter HZ-CA13, testing it thoroughly
with many prime lenses. Miguel Yusty Manu Alvarez, DoP, commented, “The
said, “Our team is convinced it’s necessary HZ-CA13U adaptor allowed us to use
to find different ways of filming that are Ultra Prime lenses, ranging from 16mm
both practical and cost effective, so that’s to 85mm. This adapter was a great
why it was decided to shoot Dito El Niño discovery, as it maintains an aspect ratio
Despertador in HD format. As a result we corresponding to 16mm. Taking into
were able to capture the digital material account that we are using a CCD camera
uncompressed and load it directly into whose chip size is 1/3", the capability
our computers to monitor picture quality, to operate it as a 16mm unit gives great
consider options for pre-editing and check versatility to work with different focal
audio synchronisation. Working in HD was lengths, achieving the depth of field
a significant economic saving for us, as of 16mm and avoiding needing wide
we planned to have the final film in 35mm angle lenses for close-up takes. Another
for the cinema. The lab process was only advantage of this adaptor is the absence
needed at the final stage, when the sound of grinding, which creates a reverse image
and pictures were almost complete, rather by means of motion engines and textures.
than shooting in film the whole way through This adapter is an optical pearl that
and having large processing costs.” performs this process using only optical
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