Filmmakers: Erika Calmayer, Jakob Skøyen, Kyrre Lien, Martin Flatmoen, Christer Eckermann, Anders Bergh and Stian Thorvaldsen (www.kyrrelien.com and ecker00.deviantart.com)

Pro or amateur: Amateur, High School Students

Synopsis: A short film about a guy getting drunk and inviting a guy to move in with him. He later regrets this and try to get him out

Production equipment used: It is shot with the new Canon EOS 5d mkII along with lenses like 50mm f/1.2, 24mm f/1.4, 24-70mm f/2.8 and 70-200 f/2.8. We also used KinoFlo, homemade dolly, and recorded the sound with External audio

Editing software: FinalCut Pro, After Effects, Automaticduck and Compressor

Editing hardware: MacPro 2008, 2,8Ghz, 10GB RAM, 2TB

Editing Workflow: While editing we used proxies that was compressed and scaled 33% of original size (640×360) with Apple pixlet codec, which made it a lot faster to render. Later all proxies was replaced with the original files when moving on from FCP to AfterEffects (where we used Automatic Duck to export the timeline to AfterEffects so it was all editable). For the final render we used Apple Animation and later Compressor to make it into all different kinds of format, the current one is QuickTime H.264 1080p

Favorite shot or clip in this film: The beer shot or the overhead shot over the bed

Tip for 5d MkII filmmakers: Always have a extra battery charging so that you can replace this with the empty one. Always have memory cards so that you don’t have to stop filming , and always have a workstation where you’re filming so you can easily transfer the clips and backup with an external drive at the same time. We used a lot of time to trick the cameras exposure both with duck-tape on the contacts as well as locking the exposure so that the aperture didn’t move. We also had some problems with the h.264 compression that killed a lot of detail in the blacks. We had to overexpose some of the shots and drag the exposure down in post-prod to get the details that we wanted in the blacks