Our good friend Ed David, a working DP based out of NYC who was one of the first to share thoughts and footage from the Sony FS7, has been playing with another camera as of late. This time it's the Samsung NX1, a mirrorless camera that shoots 4K internally, encodes to h.265, and has an APS-C sensor to boot. Ed recently put together an introspective, insightful short film about his love/hate relationship with New York City, and he shared his entire process with us.
We often make a whole lot of fuss about the cameras that we choose because of a fairly widespread belief that the camera and its specific sensor are largely responsible for the final aesthetic of an image. For The Quiet Escape, however, Ed chose to focus his energy more on his post production and grading processes in order to achieve an aesthetic inspired by a combination of French New Wave directors and the master himself, Gordon Willis.