{"id":1096,"date":"2014-10-01T12:39:00","date_gmt":"2014-10-01T12:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jwolfepr.com\/dev\/?p=1096"},"modified":"2024-08-20T22:14:16","modified_gmt":"2024-08-20T22:14:16","slug":"luc-bessons-lucy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jwolfepr.com\/dev\/luc-bessons-lucy\/","title":{"rendered":"Superhuman Power and Sony F65 Processing: Creating the Spectacular Visuals for ‘Lucy’ | DV Magazine"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Writer\/director Luc Besson directs Scarlett Johansson in ‘Lucy,’ an action-thriller that examines the possibility of what one human could truly do if she unlocked 100 percent of her brain capacity and accessed the furthest reaches of her mind.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

Digital Video magazine \u2014 October 2014<\/em>
Superhuman Power and Sony F65 Processing: Creating the Spectacular Visuals for ‘Lucy’<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

From La Femme Nikita<\/em> and The Professional<\/em> to The Fifth Element<\/em>, French filmmaker Luc Besson has created some of the most memorable female action heroes in cinematic history.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The director\u2019s VFX-heavy sci-fi action thriller Lucy<\/em> presents Scarlett Johansson as a Taipei-based grad student forced into running a dangerous errand that quickly sees her turned into an unwilling drug mule. The drug Lucy carries is a volatile new chemical that unlocks the potential of the human mind, and once she accidentally ingests it she taps into a reservoir of superhuman brain power, morphing into a supreme being to which only Morgan Freeman\u2019s Professor Norman can relate. And, boy, does she kick plenty of ass along the way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Multiple award-winning cinematographer Thierry Arbogast has served as director of photography working alongside Besson for more than two decades, most recently on The Family<\/em>, the prolific writer\/producer\/director\u2019s final foray, in 2013, into film.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For Lucy<\/em>, Arbogast conducted extensive tests between the ARRI Alexa, RED Epic and Sony CineAlta F65 cameras, ultimately selecting the F65. \u201cAt the moment, these are the three best digital cameras in the world,\u201d he says of the testing process, which included capturing footage both outdoors and inside the Cit\u00e9 du Cin\u00e9ma<\/em> stages in Paris \u2014<\/em> where roughly 90 percent of the movie was filmed \u2014<\/em> followed by color grading at Cit\u00e9 du Cin\u00e9ma<\/em> post facility Digital Factory and a 4K screening.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cLuc\u2019s feeling, and my feeling too, is that the F65 is probably the best camera for the color space,\u201d Arbogast says, careful to point out that the decision is not a critique. \u201cI love Alexa, I am shooting at the moment with Alexa!\u201d he enthuses.\u00a0(Read full story\u2026<\/a><\/em>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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