The film, 'Fifty Shades of Grey,' will open in theaters on Valentine's Day 2015.
Film maker Patrick Hall said this about the process of creating this short: "For the camera, I decided to shoot with the new Nikon D810 DSLR. It has 36mp which allowed me to shoot a little less tight and still retain a high amount of resolution if I needed to crop. Having people jumping around in the frame can make it difficult to compose the perfect shot so I often shot a little wider to give me some flexibility. The lens used was the Nikkor 70-200 2.8 because it gives a nice compression to the portraits.
For the slow motion videos, we used two Sony FS700 cameras. These relatively inexpensive professional video cameras are all the buzz right now because they can film amazing High ISO 1080 video at 240 frames per second. It's pretty cool to see this footage in such detail at these super fast frame rates. For the lenses, I wanted the video to match the still shots so we used another Nikon 70-200 2.8 lens on one camera and the Canon 70-200 2.8 lens on the second camera.
The overall lighting setup was pretty simple. I used in total 3 Profoto D1 1000 Watt heads to craft the light on my subjects. The key light was fitted with a small 2.7 x 2.7 softbox with the front diffusion panel removed to increase the contrast. To help edge out my subjects from the background, I setup a larger 2' x 3' softbox behind and above my subjects. The final D1 Monoblock was placed behind my subject to the left of the camera to give an even stronger edge light from the side. In order to produce the fastest flash duration, I set my key light to full power (10) and set a correct exposure on my camera to compensate for the high amount of flash.
When I envisioned this event, I knew I wanted to keep my subjects separated from the crowd and also have a clean background to film them against. Instead of messing with paper or fabric backgounds, we setup two 7'x8' Lastolite Hilite backgrounds to form a little cove. These Hilites are really useful for location shooting because they are easy to break down and can be used as HUGE softboxes if you fire lights inside of them."
