The budget for indie film 3 Days Gone (imdb) mandated only 12 days of principal photography, shooting film was out of the question and no significant delays in production or they wouldn’t make their days. With all this in mind, they opted to shoot with the Red Digital One Camera back in November when the camera was essentially still in beta and technical difficulties had been reported by early adopters.
“It was a gutsy decision,” says director Scott McCullough, a longtime commercial director making his feature directorial debut. There were several road bumps along the way, from the camera inexplicably shutting down on set to the r3dcode codec crashing their Final Cut system. Read how McColough, cinematographer Grischa Al-Asadi and editor Adam Parr dealt with all these issues and, despite them all, have become big fans of Red and even the Red workflow. (Parr and Al-Asadi are currently on their second Red feature with the indie film Heist.) 3 Days Gone is nearing picture lock and is currently looking to partner with a post house.
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