PHOTOGRAPHY

We are shooting with the HPX500.

Photographically, we have two, high-level objectives: Give the film a beautiful look and make sure the blood pops. Our recipe for the beautiful look will be the 35mm lens adapter, a set of 35mm primes, large source lights, a bit of smoke to put the shafts of light in play and decrease the contrast of video and monochromatic production design and costuming.

In order to enhance the red color of the blood and make it pop, we are going to shoot everything cool... the warmest the light will be is white. From an art direction standpoint, all props, counters tops, wardrobe, will be on the cooler side as well or gray. If everything stays in these tones then we will have a nice color contrast with the blood and we can easily isolate the red apart from the background and have good control over that color contrast. In the final color correction we can then warm up the cool background without mudding up the blood red.