Wallander , a TV mini-series that was shot on the RED camera has started showing on the BBC. The show will consist of three single dramas based on the Kurt Wallander Mysteries books and stars Kenneth Branagh.
The first episode’s Director of photography, Anthony Dod Mantle, just gave an interview with Broadcast Now and discusses the choice to use the RED Camera:
You’ve been quick to adopt new technology before but how confident were you that you could deal with the Red One?
“We all live in our world of expertise. I’ve hammered through my career and I move so fast – as we all have to – that I just soak up technology as it comes and I look at it with a critical eye and also with an open heart. I know roughly the tendencies. You don’t have to be a genius to know roughly which way things are going as far as celluloid and digital media is concerned. In the world of digital cinema for both theatre and television cinematography is down to fundamental things such as definition, resolution and quality of the final result. What also comes into the bargain, as you embrace new technology, is the slightly new workflow.”
Read the full article here: http://www.broadcastnow.co.uk
- Director of Photography: Anthony Dod Mantle
- Channel: BBC
Episode 2 and 3′s DP Geoff Boyle using Element Technica’s prototype hand held system for the RED camera.
More pictures at www.gboyle.co.uk
BTW, great set of novels by the way. Kurt Wallander is a swedish author and the fact that the BBC was making a mini-series of 3 of the books was cool enough. That they used a RED One is even better.
The photography is the most exiting I ever saw. Every shot is an awardwinning one. I’m verry impressed. The depth of field is amazing. The art of the shot Wallander arriving by car on a square, only seeing the mirror comming into the shot with Wallander in it, keeps on playing in my head!
Bart Buiter
Director