“That’s just crazy..!”

       The Making Of Hose.

LENSES

It would have been a lot cheaper to go with Zoom lenses, but the DP, Ben Starkman, wanted to shoot the live action 35mm footage with Primes. So we needed to match the look. Again this turned out to be a fortuitous decision as the faster primes helped tremendously in low-light situations, like the basement scenes. It also didn’t hurt that I already owned a Canon SLR film camera with some zoom lenses that we could attach, should we need them. One slight draw-back to the camera is that the senor is slightly smaller than a 35mm sensor, resulting in a slight magnification of the image. This was so slight and ended up being hardly noticeable in the final images.

Our final lens collection: a F2 20mm Wide angle, an F4 50mm, a F4 200mm (which we used exactly once!) The Pelican case was a wise investment as the camera was lugged up ladders, across roofs and took a serious beating.

A good sturdy tripod, two C-Stands and a collection of about 6 Sand bags rounded out the gear. The stands were used to primarily as glorified umbrellas – we shot outside during what would become one of the hottest summers on record, keeping the camera cool was important to avoid color drift on the sensor. We did not experience this, but had heard of it. On a few occasions, we simply tied a white rag around the camera when we could block out the sun. The stands were also used with large pieces of foam core to create shaded areas and avoid the movement of the sun (the first shot of Hose unraveling was shot this way.)