
Production Information
This production is an 83 minute monologue featuring Devarnie Lothian as Frederick Douglass in the autumn of 1844, as he begins to write his historic narrative while living in the industrious town of Lynn, Massachusetts not far north of Boston, during his early years as an Abolitionist.
The script is entirely based on this narrative, which was published to great acclaim in the spring of 1845, necessitating his two year exile in the UK.
The production was filmed in 4K and recorded in DN x HR HQX 10 bit 4.2.2 with two SONY AS7S Mk III’s DSLR Cameras using Carl Zeiss Loxia Prime lenses of varying focal length.
Rendered for QC testing in Apple ProRes HQ 4.2.2 10 bit.
Blackmagic Design DaVinci Resolve was used for Editing and Grading.
Audio equipment used was a ZOOM F8 Field recorder and mixing unit, two Sennheiser wireless microphones and three Rode condenser shotgun microphones.
All scenes were shot in a Green Screen environment at 3rd Strike Films studio in Witney, Oxfordshire, England