A Kindling Light - my second GH1 film

[Martti Ekstrand]

Another example of how fun I have with this camera and how quickly it can go from idea to completion. Got a rare moment of inspiration on Saturday afternoon, shoot between 22.00 - 02.00 Saturday to Sunday. Was tired as a dog on Sunday so rested. Edited and post-processed yesterday and let it render overnight. On Vimeo now.

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Direct link: http://vimeo.com/groups/8432/videos/5588719

[J Davis]

Pretty cool.
I liked the people walking at 1/2 shutter

[alignment1]

RIDICULOUS!! I LOVE IT!!

Great music choice, love the 1/2 shutter. I especially liked it when you first start seeing the motion blur at around 1:14- it's subtle, ghostly, perfectly appropriate...

Nice work M!!

[Peter J. DeCrescenzo]

Very nice, Martti. I see dead people! :-)

I especially love the swish-pan-to-dead-stop transitions. Were those done completely in-camera, or "reversed" in post?

[chadfarmer]

wow, great mood and atmosphere. more please.

[OPHERBA]

I like!

[Ian-T]

Very nice, Martti. I see dead people! :-)

Ha..that's what I said to myself.

This looked nice. Very ghostly too.

[billh]

That is really neat! I love it. Would someone mind explaining what you mean by 1/2 shutter? Half a second shutter speed?

Thanks,

Bill

[Martti Ekstrand]

Thanks for all kind comments!

Sorry for not having to responded earlier but I've been unable to get through to Dvxuser for a couple of days. Luckily Peter relayed the problem to Jason Ramsay, who could fix it. Thanks to both of you.

I especially love the swish-pan-to-dead-stop transitions. Were those done completely in-camera, or "reversed" in post?

The swish pans are the only thing that's absolutely straight out of the camera - I've taken them from the frame they start to the one they stop as they were in-camera. It's just the 1/2 second shutter speed that makes it look like a dead stop. On the rest of film I used the average frames plug-in called 'CC Wide Time' in After Effects Pro to further enhances the smeariness of the 1/2 s shutter. But the swish pans lost their effect with that so I just key-framed it to zero at those points and then ramped it up again right at the stop. The individual clips run at between 75 - 125% of original speed, I just eye-balled what I thought looked cool in FCP on a clip by clip basis. Only CC is a crush of the last 1-3% greys to black except on the clip that I shot last. It had gotten much brighter than when I started so I had to bring down the gamma and take out some blue. It's the one with a flat stone slate and a chain barrier in the beginning.