Making its world premiere at the 2024 SXSW Film & TV Festival in Austin, Texas, Alex Garland shared his excitement at screening his latest film in front of the same audience that saw his 2015 breakout Ex Machina premiere nearly nine years earlier.Yet, when Ex Machina hit the scene, Garland was still a mostly unknown filmmaker, perhaps more famous for his writing credits than his directorial work at that point. But with his latest film, Civil War, Garland is bringing A24’s biggest budget, and perhaps largest scale, production to life.And to do so he made an interesting choice for the camera to shoot it all with. Here’s Garland talking about his choice of the DJI Ronin 4D at SXSW 2024.Alex Garland’s 'Civil War' Camera Choice — (@) Garland had already shared insights before into his choice to shoot with the DJI Ronin 4D, a camera he’s called “revolutionary in the same way that Steadicam was once revolutionary,” and “a beautiful tool.” However, at the SXSW premiere, he went on to expand on his admiration for the Ronin 4D and how “liberating” he found the experience. “All of the work I’ve done previously was shot very traditionally off tracks and dollies with very careful framing… and that wasn’t right for this because the emphasis was all about reality which pushes you towards sort of shaky cam and handheld, but at times we wanted more control than that. So we ended up using this extraordinary camera called a 4D… a DJI Ronin,...
Published By: NoFilmSchool - Friday, 15 March, 2024