Reflections on HD
The GY-HD110 camcorder creates a vision
Las Superficies Reflectantes The GY-HD110 camera was at the heart A portion of the shooting of Las
(The Reflective Surfaces), a short
of the film’s special ‘atmosphere’, helping Superficies Reflectantes was performed
film written and directed by Mario
to fulfil the cinematographic vision of the with the camera placed on a dolly.
Alonso Fernández and produced
Director of Photography, Marc Gonzalo. “A serious problem that was easily
by Eccoli Productions, won the
Las Superficies Reflectantes revolves fixed was related to movement when
Best Short Winner 2007 award at
around two characters, Daniel and Ana, shooting with the camera travelling on
the Festival CORTOMENIUS and
portraying the timeless issue of jealousy. a dolly; we needed to stabilize the camera
has participated in the official
image on the post, which slightly affected
“I’ve learned a lot throughout the process,”
competition sections of the Mostra
some degree of image resolution, but this
explained director Mario Fernández, “being
still contributed to a result which looked
Valencia 2007, Cinema Jove 2007
able to experiment with new shooting
much more professional”.
and Premis Tirant 2008 in Spain.
techniques and getting high image quality
results, whilst working with reduced team “we were particularly satisfied with
sizes, lighting equipment and low budgets. the close ups we obtained using this
High-definition is new to me, and neither camera. The final results were brilliant!”
I nor the team had worked with HD video
when we started this project. Problems Mario Alonso is keen to work more with
appeared in the beginning, but were almost the JVC cameras; “In the future I’d like to
all due to this unknown world and my lack try the 35mm cinema lenses. I’ve already
of technical knowledge. However, we were seen some tests and I realize it is possible
really impressed with the image quality as to obtain a very cinematographic texture.
expected and it looked very professional.” One of the constraints of this kind of
cameras is, however, the difficulty to use
Mario Fernández continued, “The
anamorphic lenses. Actually, I think the
experience of recording with the
first brand to offer this possibility for this
GY-HD100 was highly satisfactory.
category of HD cameras is not going to
We recorded all the sequences with the
have any competition in the market.
Black Pro Mist, adjusting the camera’s
settings for the best cinematographic “I have to say that almost all shorts
look. The recorded results were smooth, produced in cinema schools are made in
fluid images, with a very good cinematic 2.35. A great example of this was created
texture. Also, we found the camera had by Lars Von Trier in Dancing in the Dark,
an excellent tonal range, although we where he used anamorphic adaptors
voluntarily sought greys to give a cooler manufactured for that purpose to record
tone to the whole story. The open shots in DV with standard resolution and 2.35
worked well, but we were particularly aspect ratio. This shows how there are
satisfied with the close ups we obtained always developments and new possibilities
using this camera. The final results to work on video, delivering good results
were brilliant!” at low cost”.
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