Investing means putting your money on something that has a good chance of winning in the short to medium term, and an even better, if not dead-certain, chance of winning in the long term.

That’s why i’ve chosen for the Red Scarlet-X camera and peripherals. It’s 4K, 5K coming up, very flexible and upgradeable, updates are free and it’s RAW.
Also upgraded my digital video and sound recorders, microphones, light kits (daylight softboxes, floods) and rigs and grip.

For our current feature film project “Littekens” (Scars) we needed a 4K “industrial-strength” camera and i’ll be blogging about the Red, it’s workflow and the results via my weblog at http://marvelsfilm.wordpress.com or http://littekens-film.nl/site/achter-de-schermen/ (Dutch)

I’ve also started a Red Scarlet-X usergroup on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/262309420495440/

At your service!

Martin.

Cinema 4K is an independent and non-profit producer of low budget digital cinema movies. C4K participates in low budget productions by supplying expertise, training, workflow assistance and a full production package. One of the first co-productions with C4K will be Dutch feature film “Littekens“, production starting this summer.

Martin Beek

I had to procrastinate and shift time from my beloved feature film project “Littekens” to more profitable activity – read: paid work! I was really hoping to get that feature on my planning in 2011 and finish the script (as a start), alas…  the script is still not finished and i heartily hope this will be the case before Q1 2012. It’d be a real shame to put that project on hold, because i won a script competition (organized by the Dutch Film Festival) with it’s synopsis earlier this year! You can follow it’s progress on facebook.com/littekens or twitter.com/littekensfilm .

I was “forced” to make a new investment in camera equipment, for several reasons. First, because i need a cinema camera to complete the Littekens project, second because i need to limit my tax assessment, third because I’ve had enough of DSLR and video cameras that shoot RGB. I want to be able to shoot raw (or Redcode). I’ve made the decision on nov. 7th to order the Red Scarlet-X package. I could have bought a car instead, but cars don’t have a Canon AI mount… (yet).

I know that this website is not very exciting yet, but after it has been hacked at the beginning of this month, i have been trying to put the pieces together again from old backups and the incredible Google Cache. I hope to deliver some good content in the coming few months.

I wish you all a very prosperous and happy 2012, may all your dreams come true…

Martin.

My website was hacked last week and i lost quite a lot of the original files and pages. A terrible disaster…

This is the first attempt to setting up a new website, please check back regularly!

Meanwhile, visit one of my other sites:

• tech weblog @ http://marvelsfilm.wordpress.com
• Twitter page @ http://twitter.com/MartinBeek
• Facebook page @ http://www.facebook.com/marvelsfilm
• Red DSMC users board @ http://www.scarleteers.com
• Red Scarlet user group @ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/262309420495440/

Please check out my bio at http://imdb.me/martinbeek
Contact me via m.beek  a t  marvelsfilm d o t  com.

Update: our Scarlet-X has been allocated! Hopefully, it will arrive first week of march 2012.

Being number 2916 on the list, the wait for my ordered Red Scarlet camera is probably going to be a long one…

If you want to stay up to date about the Red Scarlet X camera, please subscribe to the Red Scarlet group on facebook! Or, even better, join the www.scarleteer.com forum!

Planned production is 2012, with release in 2013.

I’m now in the process of finalizing the draft script with Patrick Huiberts and Guus van de Wal.

Here is some first concept art. Also feel free to visit the (concept-) website and facebook page at www.littekens-film.nl and facebook.com/littekens