{"id":1606,"date":"2015-06-12T06:22:55","date_gmt":"2015-06-12T06:22:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bigheadamusements.com\/wordpress\/?p=1606"},"modified":"2016-09-15T02:59:40","modified_gmt":"2016-09-15T02:59:40","slug":"bsv-1172-submitted-to-tiff-marilla-wexs-lost-and-found","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigheadamusements.com\/wordpress\/?p=1606","title":{"rendered":"BSV 1172 Submitted to TIFF + Marilla Wex’s Lost and Found"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Panasonic PK-972 used to record parts of the Main Title sequence in BSV 1172.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Juggling a day gig, freelance writing, and a media website means sometimes festival submissions happen right at the deadline, which was the case with getting BSV 1172<\/strong> just in time for TIFF 2015.<\/p>\n

Admittedly at this stage the chances of getting into TIFF is perhaps a few hairs below being struck by lightning, but the choice was either gamble now with something that\u2019s conceptually and technically unique, or hold off on further festival submissions for about a year, given TIFF prefers national and international premieres.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s still some work to be done in the audio mix and some visual tweaking, but it\u2019s close to done. That said, I\u2019m holding back on posting any production stills since they reveal some of the methods used to create the film\u2019 crackhead visuals, like the Main Title sequence.<\/p>\n

With BSV 1172<\/strong> submitted before the midnight May 29th deadline, the week after I switched to editing a taping of Marilla Wex\u2019s Lost and Found<\/strong><\/a> monologue, filmed at last year\u2019s Toronto Fringe Festival<\/a>. Wex\u2019s monologue was deservedly praised by reviewers, and the taping is partly an experiment to see what a contemporary performance looks like through the lens of a roughly 30 year old tube camera \u2013 a JVC BY-110U, which uses three Saticon tubes.<\/p>\n

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Marilla Wex in “Lost and Found,” filmed with a JVC BY-110U 3-tube Saticon video camera, edited within Final Cut Pro 7, and rendered with ProRes.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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At this stage, I\u2019ve a fine cut of the piece, edited from two taped performances, and when it\u2019s fully done (the end-date is early next week), I\u2019ll post further stills which will precede a series of blogs on the pros and cons of shooting with very vintage analogue video gear.<\/p>\n

The performances were taped onto miniDV, transferred to an iMac, and edited in Final Cut Pro 7, but there\u2019s still a learning curve involved in getting the best from analogue footage that has its share of video noise, grain, and focus issues when the light is too low for the camera’s sensors, and the camera position is fixed to the far side of the auditorium.<\/p>\n

What worked, what I learned, and what tricks were used will be detailed in the blogs, and there will be video excerpts illustrating before \/ after footage, the camera’s lens quirks, and comparing how FCP treats the footage with ProRes versus Adobe Premiere Pro.<\/p>\n

Also covered will be the Main Title sequence and some other aspects of the final edit that are unique. What the finished product won\u2019t be<\/em> is a glitch project with trippy visuals \u2013 this is a test on not only how a vintage ENG camera holds up, but how to preserve the uniqueness of its design. I\u2019m not scrubbing away grain, won\u2019t be applying a series of elaborate colour corrections, nor plan to up-res the footage to 1080p nor matte the footage to 1.85:1.<\/p>\n

The concept is a work that resembles a recording from the camera\u2019s era: 1.33:1 framed within 720×480, with colour tones and saturations native to the gear. My only exception will be creating a surround sound mix, because I want the viewer to fee as though they\u2019re in the audience – not being assaulted by stuff, but hearing the subtleties an audience member would hear.<\/p>\n

If the experiment works (with some lessons learned), then it\u2019s something that can be replicated with another performance, drawing from a variety of vintage video cameras.<\/p>\n

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Marilla Wex in “Lost and Found,” filmed with a JVC BY-110U 3-tube Saticon video camera, edited within Final Cut Pro 7, and rendered with ProRes.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Getting back to BSV 1172<\/strong>, the next goal is to get it further refined for Toronto After Dark<\/a>, and make the June 26 deadline. As I\u2019ll have to emphasize in the P.R. material, the film isn\u2019t a nostalgia piece with talking heads, but a crackhead mash-up of analogue and digital worlds featuring the daily routines inside a video store, and a sound mix designed to upset the tummy.<\/p>\n

Back again end of June,<\/p>\n

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Mark R. Hasan<\/strong>, Editor
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Confirmation that BSV 1172 was successfully submitted to TIFF 2015, and details on the imminent completion of editing a taping of Marilla Wex’s Lost and Found, filmed at the Toronto Fringe Festival 2014 using a vintage JVC BY-110U Saticon ENG video camera.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1615,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[86,322],"tags":[266,312,252,88,250,87,275,254],"class_list":["post-1606","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bsv-1172","category-performance-tapings","tag-jvc-by-110u","tag-lost-and-found","tag-marilla-wex","tag-newvicon","tag-panasonic-pk-972","tag-saticon","tag-tiff-2015","tag-toronto-fringe-festival"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigheadamusements.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1606","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigheadamusements.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigheadamusements.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigheadamusements.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigheadamusements.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1606"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/bigheadamusements.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1606\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2090,"href":"https:\/\/bigheadamusements.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1606\/revisions\/2090"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigheadamusements.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1615"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigheadamusements.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigheadamusements.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigheadamusements.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}