Thu Aug 10, 2023 5:10 pm
Blackmagic Design today announced that the independent feature film, “Moon Garden,” which was shot on 35mm film, was transferred using the Cintel Scanner, and finished using DaVinci Resolve Studio editing, grading, visual effects (VFX) and audio post production software.
Written and directed by Ryan Stevens Harris, and produced by John Elfers, the fantasy epic follows a comatose young girl who, with the help of magical creatures, journeys through an industrial wonderland to find her way back to consciousness. The film boasts an array of old school filmmaking tricks throughout, including stop motion, puppeteering, time lapse photography, miniatures to extend wide shots and cloud tanks to create the nighttime skylines. Elfers collected a fleet of expired film stocks for production, ranging from the primary stock Kodak 5212 (100T) all the way to discontinued 800T, while cinematographer Wolfgang Meyer planned to use a fleet of film cameras to make the film.
The goal for the filmmakers was to create a unique look and style for the fantasy film. “It was always the idea to create a world that seemed as if it were exhumed from the earth or repurposed,” said Harris. “‘Moon Garden’ was always meant to feel out of its time, as if an old dusty film reel were found in an attic somewhere, wound up on a projector, and rediscovered. One of the central themes of the film is whether broken things can truly be fixed, so to assemble the world out of crumbling machinery just felt right.”
For more information, please visit: https://www.blackmagicdesign.com/media/ ... 0230810-01
Written and directed by Ryan Stevens Harris, and produced by John Elfers, the fantasy epic follows a comatose young girl who, with the help of magical creatures, journeys through an industrial wonderland to find her way back to consciousness. The film boasts an array of old school filmmaking tricks throughout, including stop motion, puppeteering, time lapse photography, miniatures to extend wide shots and cloud tanks to create the nighttime skylines. Elfers collected a fleet of expired film stocks for production, ranging from the primary stock Kodak 5212 (100T) all the way to discontinued 800T, while cinematographer Wolfgang Meyer planned to use a fleet of film cameras to make the film.
The goal for the filmmakers was to create a unique look and style for the fantasy film. “It was always the idea to create a world that seemed as if it were exhumed from the earth or repurposed,” said Harris. “‘Moon Garden’ was always meant to feel out of its time, as if an old dusty film reel were found in an attic somewhere, wound up on a projector, and rediscovered. One of the central themes of the film is whether broken things can truly be fixed, so to assemble the world out of crumbling machinery just felt right.”
For more information, please visit: https://www.blackmagicdesign.com/media/ ... 0230810-01