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 Shoot date 24/10/09
DP: Adam Arkapaw, Producer: Dean Bates
Production Company - STARCHILD PRODUCTIONS P/L
You may or may not have heard of the Cinerama format of shooting with three cameras, first used in the early 50s. The photographic system used three interlocked 35 mm cameras equipped with 27 mm lenses, approximately the focal length of the human eye. Each camera photographed one third of the picture shooting in a crisscross pattern, the right camera shooting the left part of the image, the left camera shooting the right part of the image and the centre camera shooting straight ahead. The three angled cameras photographed an image that was not only three times as wide as a standard film but covered 146 degrees of arc, close to the human field of vision, including peripheral vision. The image was photographed six sprocket holes high, rather than the usual four used in other 35 mm processes. The picture was photographed and projected at 26 frames per second rather than the usual 24.
Fast forward to 2009 …
Melbourne DP Adam Arkapaw in conjunction with his director Mark Alston wanted to shoot with 3 red cameras using the same principle. The rig that we came up with in conjunction with grip, Glen Arrowsmith, was the three cameras mounted to a Ubangi on a Sachtler studio 80 head. It was calculated that a 135deg field of view could be achieved using a 25mm lens at 25fps 4k, and similar field of view using the 14mm 100fps 2k.
 Footage from all 3 cameras will be stitched together in post. For most of the shoot there was no panning or tilting of the head. One shot required a 360deg view of the location which meant panning the rig three times given the 135deg field of view, with the intent of inserting the same band member at random points around the location.
It should look great once post is completed.
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