Pretty disappointing, was the screening put together in 48 hours as well? I don’t know the exact numbers but over 50 teams from New York city competed in last weekends 48 hour film competition and while I was expecting to see some good/bad films, I did not expect such a sloppy screening. Show starts almost an hour late, riddled with technical problems, audio out of sync 90% of the time, restarting films, and over all lack in preparation by the NYC 48 film organization was pretty inexcusable and not fair to all the teams who worked so hard to fill seats (10 bucks a head) last during Wednesday and Thursday screenings at the Sunshine Cinema. Is 48 hour a big profit machine?

Ranting aside, we set out to make a movie in 48 hours for a full house at the Sunshine Cinema and that we did…I believe Mr. P Sarni updated IMDB last night. Thanks to friends and family again for coming out to support. Will I do it again? Who knows…in the meantime I must keep writing.

We did it, the film was delivered with only one minute to deadline.  This not the most sound way to produce a film, I do not recommend this to anyone unless you simply enjoy a challenge cause challenging would be an understatement.  Making a film in 48 hours is simply exhausting as you will tap all yourself creatively and exercise all skills available in the shortest amount of time.  UPDATE of my notes from field coming tomorrow.

Never too late to donate today! Well thats the spirit of 48 hour I suppose, trying to make due with what you have available is half of it. One thing you must have is food cause a fed crew is a happy crew and thats why we are taking some donations and possibly holding a fund raiser for our 48 hour film…food and transportation. The 48 hour film competition (make a short movie in 48 hours) is a fun exercise for everyone and it should serve as a great field test for our RED 1781. Patrick Sarni and myself have been doing some planing and trying to figure out who our talent is and what locations we are using but it complicates the situation when you do not know the genre or the story until the night it begins…June 20th! We will keep you posted with our progress.

Greetings Gotham Guerrillas…

Our RED package is now ready for hire. If your looking for a complete RED ONE digital cinema package for rental in the NYC area then please don’t hesitate to contact me directly or email REDRENTAL@GothamGuerrilla.com. This is a fully loaded package with all the bells and whistles! Special offers for NYC rentals and I will consider traveling anywhere in the world. Redrental@GothamGuerrilla.com

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Comrades! Our RED ONE is finally home and I would like to take this moment to raise my glass and solute RED, the RED team, and RED community for delivering and supporting the future of Cinema….Cheers! These are exciting times in a troubled world so I say lets make the best of it shall we? I have much work to do and even more writing to be done…RED is here and here to stay, time to get busy. Salute! Image Courtesy of RED DIGITAL CINEMA

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At last, I have obtained the tracking numbers to our 1st RED ONE and tomorrow I will be waiting patiently to take delivery TOMORROW! I went ahead and activated my insurance a few weeks back in case the FedEx truck gets held up on a bridge and taken over by terrorist…must protect the precious cargo.

48 hour film competition is right around the corner so we might as well double it as a our RED camera test. I just hope the workflow does not slow us down considering we only have 48 hours to complete the short film. I have been experimenting with Final Cut Studio’s log and transfer tool which encodes the R3D (raw RED file format) into a 2k ProRes format which I feel is more then enough to deliver in. The results are stunning and this was all done on my laptop.

If you live in the NYC area and are interesting in participating in a 48 hour film festival then drop us a line with you name and contact and include “48 hour crew” in your subject line.

The anticipation is starting to kill me and after waiting over a year from when I 1st dropped my deposit for the RED ONE and then endured multiple production holds and delays…the time has finally come. I am fortunate enough to have had the opportunity to be working with the RED for the last several weeks as a REDTek and recently promoted to DP on my last gig so I am ready and more importantly I feel prepared. If you know anything about RED its expect the unexpected, RED owner Jim Jannard signature on RED’s official forum is

“Everything in life changes… including our camera specs and delivery dates…”

This is why my post titles ends with “maybe”, but I feel pretty confident since they released the image above showing camera numbers 1751-2000 being prepped for shipping. You can not argue Jim Jannard’s honesty, not to mention the man is a hype master with his recent thread titled “PREPARE”, which is a brief post on the new firmware build 16…an example of how RED can improve system specs overnight. RED is controversial for stirring up a fire in not only the RED community, but the film industry in general. As a RED technician, or what I call a REDTek… I have worked with film crews who I find very bitter over all this RED hype and I can imagine it gets out of hand but what can I say…so far RED lives up to all the hype. After the break you will find where the RED delivery schedule currently stands in case your interested…

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