{"id":1452,"date":"2020-03-26T19:41:25","date_gmt":"2020-03-26T07:41:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.filmconvert.com\/blog\/?p=1452"},"modified":"2020-03-26T19:41:25","modified_gmt":"2020-03-26T07:41:25","slug":"pistachio-tom-edkins-user-showcase","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmconvert.com\/blog\/pistachio-tom-edkins-user-showcase\/","title":{"rendered":"Pistachio &#8211; Tom Edkins user showcase"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tomedkins.com\/\">Tom Edkins<\/a>, makes films that are exciting, playful, and heartfelt. His recent short film, &#8216;Pistachio&#8217;, is about an\u00a0evangelical father who sends his two children door to door, trying to sell their faith to an unwilling community, until an encounter with an isolated farmer brings new perspective to all four lives.<\/p>\n<div style=\"padding: 41.67% 0 0 0; position: relative;\"><iframe style=\"position: absolute; top: 0; left: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%;\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/398841728?title=0&amp;byline=0&amp;portrait=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><script src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/api\/player.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h1>Tom Edkins<\/h1>\n<p>We shot Pistachio on the stark, bleakly beautiful flats of Romney Marsh in Kent. It doesn\u2019t really feel like the English countryside \u2013 more like the American Midwest in some places \u2013 so we used extreme wide angles and exaggerated perspectives to capture the otherworldly scale and isolation of the setting. I took a lot of inspiration from the way Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul are shot.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-1454 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/www.filmconvert.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/17th-May-final-cut.00_04_21_20.Still017-1024x427.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"747\" height=\"311\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.filmconvert.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/17th-May-final-cut.00_04_21_20.Still017-1024x427.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.filmconvert.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/17th-May-final-cut.00_04_21_20.Still017-150x63.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.filmconvert.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/17th-May-final-cut.00_04_21_20.Still017-300x125.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 747px) 100vw, 747px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The Kodak Portra film stock was ideal for our palette as it gives a cool, almost bleached look to the pastoral greens and blues while letting earthy browns and muted reds show through \u2013 perfect for capturing the contrast between the harsh, unforgiving outside world and the domestic warmth of the farmer\u2019s house.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-1455\" src=\"https:\/\/www.filmconvert.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/17th-May-final-cut.00_08_15_18.Still022_small-1024x427.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"747\" height=\"311\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.filmconvert.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/17th-May-final-cut.00_08_15_18.Still022_small-1024x427.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.filmconvert.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/17th-May-final-cut.00_08_15_18.Still022_small-150x63.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.filmconvert.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/17th-May-final-cut.00_08_15_18.Still022_small-300x125.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.filmconvert.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/17th-May-final-cut.00_08_15_18.Still022_small.jpg 1152w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 747px) 100vw, 747px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I use FilmConvert in Premiere and DaVinci Resolve, using it as a base layer before adding my own custom tweaks. I\u2019ve used it on everything from Arri Alexa to iPhone footage: whether I\u2019m using it to give an instant lift or as inspiration for a more in-depth grade it\u2019s the tool I reach for first.<\/p>\n<p>Considering how many people are charging \u00a350 for garbage LUT packs out there, paying \u00a3200 for something of genuine quality that I use every day was a no-brainer.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m a director but I got into filmmaking through photography and I used to paint and draw, so I don\u2019t like taking my hands off the camera \u2013 I want to be involved in the images. Having something as flexible as FilmConvert \u2013 it can play as big or small a role in a project as I need \u2013 means I can get everything I want from the camera even on projects where the budget won\u2019t stretch to a colourist.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tom Edkins, makes films that are exciting, playful, and heartfelt. His recent short film, &#8216;Pistachio&#8217;, is about an\u00a0evangelical father who sends his two children door to door, trying to sell their faith to an unwilling community, until an encounter with an isolated farmer brings new perspective to all four lives. &nbsp; Tom Edkins We shot&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.filmconvert.com\/blog\/pistachio-tom-edkins-user-showcase\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Pistachio &#8211; Tom Edkins user showcase<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1453,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[79],"class_list":["post-1452","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-user-showcase","tag-short-film","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmconvert.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1452","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmconvert.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmconvert.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmconvert.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmconvert.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1452"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmconvert.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1452\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1458,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmconvert.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1452\/revisions\/1458"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmconvert.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1453"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmconvert.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmconvert.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmconvert.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}