Brazil. Blackmagic Design, through its official distributor, Pinnacle Group, makes an alliance with ABC Cinema Courses, delivering some equipment that was used in their courses that resulted in five short films produced by the students and supervised by the team of renowned directors of the Brazilian audiovisual.
This partnership emerged in November 2022, when the Pinnacle Group was in Rio de Janeiro with its Blackmagic Week event, attended by hundreds of participants and the renowned directors of photography of ABC Cursos de Cinema, Affonso Beato, Cezar Moraes and Roberto Faissal.
ABC Cinema Courses, which already used some Blackmagic Design equipment, such as the old Studio Camera, Pocket 6k and Davinci Resolve Studio, had the opportunity to use the most modern camera of the brand.
Blackmagic Design has launched the Blackmagic URSA Mini Pro 12K, which is a revolution in digital film with a 12K Super 35 12288 x 6480 sensor and 14 stops of dynamic range. 12K supersampling delivers superior 8K and 4K images with smooth skin tones and the extraordinary detail of high-end fixed cameras. It can shoot at 60fps in 12K, 120fps in 8K, and up to 240fps in 4K Super 16.
"It was an incredible experience to use the latest technology in Blackmagic Design's 12K resolution cameras. The images were super sharp and the students were very excited about the possibility of knowing the novelties that the new equipment brings in terms of capture and workflow. All provided by our cultural partnership with Pinnacle Group and Blackmagic Design, who lent us the camera, which allowed for an incredible result."
Affonso Beato- Director of Photography and Teaching at ABC, ASC, highlighted that this successful alliance resulted in five short films, Estela, Visage, Água de Barro, Escolacho and Disforme, which were developed by group one of 2023, with the supervision and assistance of ABC's team of professionals.
The students had the opportunity to work with Blackmagic Ursa Mini Pro 12k and were enthusiastic about the features and possibilities of the camera. And after the work on set, they were able to follow the colorization, editing and completion of the shorts, in the powerful Davinci Resolve Studio, completing the entire workflow of a film production.
"Our focus is to offer practical teaching and knowledge of the dynamics of the audiovisual and film market, we have already had more than a thousand students making short films, which already add up to more than 30 in recent years. It is important to highlight the work of social inclusion and around 200 full fellows have already participated in our courses in the last 3 years, and this alliance with Blackmagic Design is very important for us"
For his part, Roberto Faissal, Director of Photography and Executive of ABC, pointed out that the Pinnacle Group, exclusive distributor of Blackmagic Design in Brazil, has carried out several actions to promote the new technologies and products of the brand, with events such as Blackmagic Week among others, and now on August 8, 9 and 10 will have the largest stand of the SET Expo, and prepares a real show for the audience.
"We are working to bring the best content to everyone, and this year we are preparing many novelties for SET Expo, which will surprise all the audience present and that follows us on our social networks," concluded Ricardo López, CEO of Pinnacle Group.
