You really did exceed the boundaries, outshoot, go beyond what I and anyone could have imagined – the footage we got…looked extraordinary, just beautiful. It’s made a mind-boggling difference to the film! It’s been an absolute pleasure to work with such a talented enthusiastic bunch – from the get go your team’s credentials and skills have been the core heart of the picture and the determination and guts you put into it, shows in the final. Thank you.
- CAVE Director Bruce Hunt
Way back in the planning stages, the makers of the The CAVE knew they’d need to call in the big guns. They looked no further than High Springs and Karst Productions. As a result of Karst, The CAVE becomes the first movie feature to be shot underwater with high-definition HDCAM SR cameras. It is also the first movie to implement fiber-optic link technology to improve communication from areas as far back as a half-mile into caves back to the surface.
- Colin McCandliss, The Gainesville Sun
The Phone in Sheffield’s Hardware rings again, for the third time in five minutes. Bobby Sheffield shakes his head in wonder. “I probably could’ve given away several thousands of them,” he said, referring to the 150 free tickets he and his wife, Janice, distributed for the world premier of The CAVE at their Priest Theatre, three days before the rest of the world saw it. They ran out of tickets within a few hours of starting to hand them out!
- Amy Reinink, The Gainesville Sun
When director of photography Ross Emery, ACS read the script for The CAVE, a horror movie set in a system of underground caves, he knew it was the most difficult project he’d ever been offered. Most of the story takes place in an environment with no light whatsoever, and lengthy sequences unfold in cavernous underwater spaces. In collaboration with underwater director of photography Wes Skiles and his team of divers, Emery and director Bruce Hunt decided to shoot all the picture’s land-based scenes on 35mm, and all the underwater sequences on high-definition video using Sony HDC-F950 with 4:4:4 chroma sampling.
- For the full story, see American Cinematographer, August 2005 pp. 58-65 or go to http://www.theasc.com/magazine/aug05/cave/index.html
In 2004 a brave team assembled by Karst Productions Inc., a Florida-based HD production company owned by Wes Skiles, pushed the Highdef envelope of resources and technology in Bucharest, Romania and the jungles of Mexico. The CAVE, released in August by Screen Gems, required a Sony HDC-F950 outfitted to work underwater and 1000’ deep into real caves. Most viewers won’t know that The CAVE is a mix of 35mm and HDCAM SR.
- For the full story, see highdef, Vol. 7, Issue 3 by Ross Ambrose or go to http://www.highdef.org/magazine/index.htm
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