David Lynch On Using a Sony PD-150

David Lynch talks about his experience using a consumer video camera, the Sony PD-150, to shoot a film at the AFI Silver Theatre in Silver Spring, MD.

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[luiscabesc]

The hand...

[pigeontoucher]

@luiscabesc It has a mind of it's own.

[haitianflagrep36]

what was the film he shot with the camera?

[dilps]

Jazz hand.

[KahnBB6]

Lynch has used much more expensive high definition cameras in recent years for his commercials. He tries things out that way. His recent short film Lady Blue Shanghai seems to have been shot on the PD-150 however. I think we'd all like to see him use something like an Arriflex Alexa or Red Epic on his next film because both of those have image quality that looks extremely close to 35mm celluloid.

[TheCeembee]

@generalcircle and he loves to shake some fingers when saying "beautiful"

[STKTimeParadox]

@NCCgray I take it you've never seen a David Lynch movie.

[generalcircle]

David lynch loves the word "Beautiful" doesn't he?

[mavishill]

i really really wish inland empire was on film... david's major work is meant for celluloid.. not for video.. even it's great he probably feels liberated using and validating digital technology.

[hardcorezombi]

Did I just hear Lynch praise auto focus.......?

[Labicicletafilms]

@mgutz

a filmmaker uses anything at hand... if you have those cameras, Just Shoot!

[Nemesys422]

The PD 150 is ok depending on the strain of film making that you're entertaining. I've used 16mm and Digital Video and find it very hard to mimic celluloid film at any level, though I have to say rendering to 24 frames in post and actually lighting the scene as if it were shot on celluloid does help especially when allowing closure of the iris to gain DOF. I was working in a post prod suite when one episode of 'Heartbeat' went to air on Yorkshire TV without conversion to progressive output :-)