Crank2 Is Shooting With Cheap Digital Cameras
Did you like “Crank”, a movie about poisoned man who has only an hour to live unless he keeps his adrenaline going? So a few days ago “Crank: High Voltage” production started. And I was really surprised to know that crankteam is using store bought cheap digital cameras to shoot the film.
Actually they are using the Canon XH-A1 ($3,300) and the Canon HF10 ($900) as primary ones, and all action scenes they are going to film with nearly 12 cams.
As Mark Neveldine and Brian Taylor, film directors, said, they will put cameras in unusual places so that the film will obtain its famous crazy visual style.
The main pros of that using simple HD cam are their lightness and inexpensiveness. Mark and Bryan can put, let’s say, ten of these cameras in places where professional cameras won’t suit, or move the cameras in outrageous ways with the risk to destroy them and not to worry about expenditures.
Directors claimed they are using these cams to perform innovative and striking tricks and methods of shooting to make it look not like home video, but like a movie you’ve never seen before! They love the fast digital shutter and shooting with negative 3 gain to create aggressive look that would scare anyone.
That’s pretty cool way to move faster with these light cheap digital cameras. Mark and Brian love red mode of that cams, and they compare a 35mm film, where you need a ton of AC’s with a lot of time for set up and the cameras they are using. With the ability to simply point and shoot the team has the same image quality as on “Crank 1”.
That will be very interesting to see the result. HD 1920 x 1080 resolution makes me wonder.
The investigation was held by Collider.com
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