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Iconix HD-RH1 Video Camera Used in The Kill Point

Point-of-View Camera Enables The Kill Point Production Team to Acquire High Definition Footage from the End of a Sound Boom

Santa Barbara, CA: July 31, 2007 --Iconix Video, a leading developer of advanced high-definition camera systems and maker of the world’s smallest professional quality HD video camera, announced today the use of the Iconix HD-RH1 camera on the upcoming Lionsgate Television mini-series, The Kill Point, premiering on Spike TV July 22.

The eight-hour mini-series, directed by Steve Shill (Rome, Law & Order) and shot by Cinematographer Bert Dunk, ASC, CSC (Storm in Summer, Street Time), stars Donnie Wahlberg (Band of Brothers, Annapolis) and John Leguizamo (Moulin Rouge!, Love in the Time of Cholera). The story follows a group of American Iraq war veterans who stage a bank heist in downtown Pittsburgh, where the series was filmed. The robbery turns into a hostage negotiation between Leguizamo as the heist leader and Wahlberg as the hostage negotiator. The Iconix HD-RH1 was used throughout filming of the mini-series, allowing the production to acquire a range of shots that would not have been possible with a standard-size HD camera, including an entire scene shot from inside the bank’s air ducts.

According to Bert Dunk, ASC, CSC, Director of Photography for The Kill Point, it wasn’t only his many years of expertise as a cinematographer that got him the job with the production. “When I first read the script for The Kill Point, I immediately thought this would be the perfect application for the Iconix. During the interview, one of the things I brought up was this camera and what a great asset it would be for the production. The director really wanted to add a different look and do some things that were out of the ordinary, so he readily agreed.”

Featuring a camera head about the size of a golf ball, and weighing a mere two ounces, the remote head system of the Iconix HD-RH1 can keep pace with larger HD video cameras, yet is versatile enough to offer 35 different format and frame rate combinations. “We’re able to feed the Iconix footage into an SRW1 recording deck, essentially feeding it a 4:2:2 signal with much less compression than, say, an HDCam deck,” Dunk explains. “That’s really what prompted me to get it on the show.”