Trance (2013)

Feature Film

Our Role
Main Unit onset DIT and Equipment Services

Directed by
Danny Boyle

Cinematography by
Anthony Dod Mantle

Shooting Format
Arri Alexa - Arri Raw
Indiecam - cDNG
Canon C300 - H264

Experience
This was the second collaboration between cinematographer Anthony Dod mantle and Digital Imagination Technician Dan Carling, for Danny Boyles’ film Trance.

Principle photography took place in London based out of 3 Mills Film Studios. Prior to principle photography, a small crew headed to the middle of France for a 3 day pre-shoot.

During the pre-shoot the new Alexa ‘M’ was used for a handheld and car mounted sequence. The camera head was tethered via a fibre cable back to the base for recording and menu control.

Onset colour and exposure management was handled by Dan Carling at his duel monitor workstation, A 6U flight case housed the LUT boxes and video switcher matrix. The Video signal from cameras came direct to this rig, 3D LUT applied and the video signal routed to Video assist for further distribution. Technicolour provided the show 3D LUT for this shoot.

Anthony Dod Mantle is known for using multiple camera formats and this shoot was no exception. The Primary cameras were Arri Alexa shooing Arri Raw. Other formats included Canon C300 and smaller Indiecam POV HD cameras. 

All camera data was safely backed up to  multiple destinations with MD5 Checksums at the onset Data management workstation. A rushes drive was then delivered to Technicolor at Lunch time and on wrap with the days material ready for further processing and LTO archival.