• Origination format: Super-16mm 1.85:1
• Post-production format: 720/25p uncompressed RGB (10-bit log datacine DDR)
• Shot: 20th & 21st of May 2006

Mirrors is a highly visual short – an evocative, powerful and mythic story of loss and redemption, as one man’s solitary ritual becomes increasingly perplexing. We shot it at some (very muddy) marshes in Suffolk.

Production stills

Post-production workflow

• Super-16mm developed at Technicolor
• Scanned at Midnight Transfer on a Spirit 4k
  • Scanned at 1920×1080
  • Downconverted to 1028×720 on a clipster @ Midnight Transfer (we had to downconvert because we didn’t have enough storage space for the full 80 minutes of footage at 1920×1080)
  • Transfered onto 2×250GB USB2 hard disks as DPX files
• Imported into After Effects 7 Pro and converted to DV for off-line edit
• Off-line edit done in Adobe Premiere Pro 2.0
• Edit imported back into After Effects and the DV clips were manually replaced with the DPX files
• Graded using Synthetic Aperture’s Color Finesse