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.

[Shinobi Productions]

very nice, I love the effect. I want to go film something similar now but I don't want to "rip off" your piece.

[stoneinapond]

very nice, I love the effect. I want to go film something similar now but I don't want to "rip off" your piece.

Imitation is sincerest form of flattery. :thumbsup:

[Martti Ekstrand]

very nice, I love the effect. I want to go film something similar now but I don't want to "rip off" your piece.

As long as you don't film yourself bumbling about on a graveyard in the middle of the night you'll be fine.

[tommygdawg]

Dude. That was awesome. I'm a big fan of (good) cinematography, but even the best of these kinds of films I usually navigate away from within the first few minutes, it just doesn't hold my interest.

Alas, this one was different. It held my attention the whole time and the shooting was great! I assume you used a GH13 on this venture?

[OldManVideo]

Very nice. But didn't I see this graveyard a year or two ago; or am I having deja vu again..

[Homunculus]

Very nice. But didn't I see this graveyard a year or two ago; or am I having deja vu again..
look at the date of the first post in this thread. it's from july of 2009

[Martti Ekstrand]

Dude. That was awesome. I'm a big fan of (good) cinematography, but even the best of these kinds of films I usually navigate away from within the first few minutes, it just doesn't hold my interest.

Alas, this one was different. It held my attention the whole time and the shooting was great! I assume you used a GH13 on this venture?

Thanks! This is my attempt at a bloomesque film and I agree that focus pulls over static objects to soft music is a tad dull after 30 seconds so I tried to spice it up somewhat. It was done last year so no bit rate hack. Thread got bumped since there was a question about shooting with slow shutter speeds in the general GH1 section.

[bluesgeek]

Someone made some money (http://adland.tv/commercials/acura-tl-football-player-2011-30-usa) using your idea.