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June 2010

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ONE ON ONE POST: The short you mentioned was for the South African Music Awards.What is the 25- minute project? COPLEY: “I can’t really tell you much about it other than it’s a satirical comedy about crime in South Africa.We are going to release that soon — in the next two to three months, max.” POST: What kind of cameras did you use on the two projects? COPLEY: “For the crime one we used a Sony and for the Music Awards with Charl- ize we shot on a Panasonic P2 camera. I ended up having two on the production. I had to put a production company together quickly and one of the guys took some of the P2 files and converted them in ProRes on his Final Cut system. So I had these QuickTime MOV files in the project and the P2 files coming in from extra stuff that I had shot. Premiere Pro was able to handle those two formats, which was really impressive.” The A-Team: Mad Dog Murdoch is Copley’s first film role since District 9. POST: Are you using other aspects of the suite as well? COPLEY: “The piece I edited was pretty basic. I mixed the sound in it. I was very curi-

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