Behind the Slimed - Tech Specs
The following list is for filmmakers, gear junkies or anyone else interested in the technical equipment used to make Slimed. Slimed was shot entirely on the mini-dv format with the exception of the main title sequence, which was shot with a borrowed Canon HD XH-A1. Most of the equipment on this list was either lent from the RISD film and video department, already owned, borrowed, or purchased with the film's small budget.
Production
Camera
- Panasonic DVX100b
Aux. Lens
- Century optics 0.6x wide angle conversion lens
Tape
- Approx. 40 Sony premium dvc tapes (mini-dv)
Tripod
- Manfrotto 516 Pro Video head, Gitzo G-1340 Inter Pro Studex Performance Legs, 2 consumer tripods for ghetto-steadicam/ backup
Dolly
- Homemade skateboard wheel type, 15 feet of unknown-brand track
Jib
- Glidecam camera crane 200
Lights
- Two 600W Frensel Arrilites with barndoors, stands
- Two 300W Fresnel Arrilites with barndoors, stands
- One 250 watt home depot work light
- six 160w clamp lights
Grip
- 3 impact 10 feet c-stands, one 20" baby c.
- sand bags
- flags
- assorted colored gels/ diffusion paper
Sound
- Marantz PMD660 Portable Compact Flash Recorder
- Marantz PMD671 Professional Flash Recorder
- Super-Cardioid Shotgun Microphone w/ 9 ft boom pole, windscreen
- Two lavaliere microphones with wireless receivers
Gear Transport
- Four wheel steel garden type cart with collapsable sides
Post-Production
Hardware
- Mac Pro w/ Quad-Core Intel Xeon processor, 8 GB RAM
- 2007 iMac w/ 2.4 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo processor, 4 GB RAM
- 3 Lacie 500 GB Quadra hard drives
- 1 Lacie 500 GB USB2 hard drive
- 1 Lacie 1 TB hard drive
- JVC TMH-150CGU production monitor w/ IF-CO1COMG card and Data Video DAC-6 DV-to-Analog Video Converter
Software
- Final Cut Pro 5.1.4
- After Effects CS3 Pro, version 8.0.2.27
- Photoshop CS3
- Garageband '08