Digital Video - October 2008 - (Page 30) UNREST IN PEACE CAPTURING THE THRILLER LAID TO REST WITH PANASONIC’S AJ-HPX3000. BY JAY HOLBEN I f you’ve been freaked by Buffy the Vampire Slayer, creeped out by Angel or thrilled by Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles, chances are good that Robert Hall’s work played a big role in that. After cutting his teeth creating ghoulies and grotesque creations for television and movies at the Stan Winston Studios, the Michigan-born makeup effects artist formed his own company, Almost Human, and has been going strong ever since. In 2004, Hall took a turn behind the camera as a writer and director with the semi-autobiographical feature Lighting Bug. This time, Hall returns as the writer-director of Laid to Rest, a chilling story of a woman who wakes up in a coffin having no memory of who she is or how she got there. “It’s my first foray into horror,” attests Hall. “I grew up wanting to scare people, and I’ve been doing that over the years with prosthetics and makeup effects, creating things that go bump in the night. Over those years, my interests have evolved a bit and now I’m interested in making my own movies to scare people.” (Laid to Rest will be released by Anchor Bay Entertainment. More information is available at www.laidtorestmovie.com.) dv october 2008 Using the HPX3000 to angle in on creepy casket action in Laid To Rest. The project was shot with the Panasonic AJ-HPX3000 camera in the AVC-Intra codec. “We went all-digital,” explains Hall. “We just locked picture last night and we’ve never used an inch of tape. We’ve been working with the full-HD version since day one and it’s been fantastic.” Hall had previously directed a music video utilizing the Panasonic AG-HVX200 and he fell in love with the P2 format. “I was really impressed with that camera and loved the workflow. It was really easy, and we were able to cut in full HD — it was phenomenal! I thought, at first, that we could use the HVX to shoot Laid to Rest, but the more I looked into the prospect of blowing up the images from the HVX to film, the fact that you’re not really getting 1080 shows up in the blacks and lots of compression. But then I found out about the HPX3000. “The more research I did on the camera, the more I fell in love www.dv.com 30 http://www.laidtorestmovie.com http://www.dv.com
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