“Operation Avalanche” Shot on Pocket Cinema Cameras
Posted: Fri Jan 29, 2016 2:01 pmBlackmagic Design announced today the highly anticipated Sundance film “Operation Avalanche” was shot using Blackmagic Pocket Cinema Cameras. The film, by award winning director Matthew Johnson and DPs Jared Raab and Andrew Appelle, was shot using the Pocket Cinema Cameras, along with a unique film conversion workflow to capture the look and feel of an underground 1960s documentary.
“Operation Avalanche” is a found footage film where four undercover CIA agents are sent to NASA posing as a documentary film crew, and what they discovered leads to one of the biggest conspiracies in American history. Matthew Johnson, the writer and director of the film, was the creator of the sleeper hit film “Dirties,” which won the Slamdance Film Festival in 2013 and was later released by Kevin Smith.
To capture Johnson and the DPs’ vision, the film had to be shot with the look of 1960s film stock and had to look like most of the footage was shot covertly. Shooting in RAW, footage was converted into a 2K scan from the Pocket Cinema Camera’s Super 16mm image. Footage was then graded after the final 16mm conversion.
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“Operation Avalanche” is a found footage film where four undercover CIA agents are sent to NASA posing as a documentary film crew, and what they discovered leads to one of the biggest conspiracies in American history. Matthew Johnson, the writer and director of the film, was the creator of the sleeper hit film “Dirties,” which won the Slamdance Film Festival in 2013 and was later released by Kevin Smith.
To capture Johnson and the DPs’ vision, the film had to be shot with the look of 1960s film stock and had to look like most of the footage was shot covertly. Shooting in RAW, footage was converted into a 2K scan from the Pocket Cinema Camera’s Super 16mm image. Footage was then graded after the final 16mm conversion.
To learn more, please visit: https://www.blackmagicdesign.com/press/ ... 0160129-01