John Lynch (DoP) used the full range of Hawk anamorphic lenses for the shoot with D-21 (with Mscope upgrade). He commented: “I love anamorphics and I pushed the system as hard as I could. We were fully open all the time and we used all possible settings from 100 to 800. It was great experience! Can’t wait to see results on the big screen”.

For focus puller Nathan “always sharp” Mann, this was “... the hardest job I’ve ever done. With these lenses when you are fully open you don’t have depth of focus. You are either sharp or you are not. It is not like HD where everything is always sharp”. ..

“Love Hate” was shot over a period of five days on numerous locations all over London, with the crew averaging 25-30 setups per day and recording the entire volume of footage on 25 HDCAM SR cassettes.

The short feature stars Ben Whishaw and Hayley Atwell (who are also the leads in the new Julian Jarrold’s “Brideshead Revisited”) and was produced by Origin Pictures for BBC Films and UK Film Council via Film London.

The film was written and Directed by Dylan and Blake Ritson and produced by Scott Jacobson, who was extremely excited with the images produced by the D-21 and MScope™.

Blake further commented on the look of the film:
“Perfection itself”.

Download the press release: Love Hate completed principal photography on Friday 8th August 2008.*.doc - 09-2008