Blood Simple Scene Recreations

Our Video Cinematography & Lighting class did a series of tests to compare various cameras and to better understand how each works. We recreated and shot a scene from The Coen Brother’s film ‘Blood Simple’ four times, each using a different type of camera or frame rate. (SD 30, SD 24p / HDV / 16mm)
The whole class set up lights for the scene, which was the same in all four takes; while each version’s cinematography was decided by the individual director.
The scene from the original script we used can be found here.



Scene directed by Joe Kraemer
Shot on a Panasonic DVX-100 at 30fps



Scene directed by Joe Kraemer
Shot on a Panasonic DVX-100 at 24p



Scene directed by Michael Kubaszak
Shot on 16mm color film
Transferred to video at 30fps



Scene directed by Travis Huss
Shot on a Sony HVR-V1U
Originally shot at 1080p 24fps, now at 720p