Test shoot!

Date: 21 Feb afternoon

Location: Film store
Duration: 0.5h
Subject: interior shots
TBC: external recorder – Shogun
Side note: Lucas recommends the Shogun for good quality footage from the F3, and Film Executive Shukor is loaning us the Shogun.

We will also need: hard disks (used Cliff’s)

Reading material:
Atomos Shogun User Manual
Sony PMW-F3 Manual

Process:
Build camera & accessories
Attach a standard lens, 35mm
Film something.
Back up data.
Bring home footage and colour correct.
Publish results, images on OSS.

Basic Setup:
Recording codec 1920×1080 Apple ProRes 422 HQ
1.5g 444 dual link?
MLUT 709 (800%)

By the end of this test shoot we should be able to:
Setup the F3- shogun combo
Set white balance (You can only choose 3200K or 5600K in s-log)
Display the gain setting as ISO value
Expose for S-log (ISO 800)
Use Exposure Index (EI) mode, like a clean signal out

Grading:
I did a little test using F3 footage from this website.