michael morlan, austin texas, cinematographer, director of photography, D.P., gaffer, camera operator

Michael Morlan . Production
director of photography


 
"Flushed" short – 2007
 

genre:

format:
 

comedy

Mini-DV

notes:

As often happens with short form projects, the use of a specific camera package was dictated by the producers - in this case, an XL-2 with Red Rock Micro 35mm adapter and Nikor primes.  As a result, the look is a bit soft and dreamy.  Quite pleasing, in fact.

I struck for natural and soft lighting throughout.  Almost every key was a bounce off a card, a softbox, or Kino Flo.  Where practicals were in play, I carded them off backgrounds to make talent pop in the frame.

I generally lit for an f4.0 stop in order to hit the sweet spot of the lenses as often as possible.  This assured the picture wouldn't get any softer than already created by the DoF adapter and created a nice focal separation between subjects.
 

tools:

camera – Canon XL-2

lighting:
AAFT one-ton tungsten G/E package

 

 

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