"Sleepless"- new scene with Brevis 35mm

wonderwall

wonderwall

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Check out CineVera Picture's latest scene: "Sleepless." It's 3 minutes, shot with the Brevis and Nikon primes. Any feedback is very welcome!

http://www.cineverapictures.com/clips/sleepless.html

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A bit of a slow download for me but what I've seen is very nice! What did your lens package consist of? What stop and what wattage(hmi thru window?) did you key with in the bedroom shots?

RJS
 
Wow. Really well done.

I would love to hear more details about lighting,camera, dolly, etc.

Thanks for posting!
 
We unfortunately spread the word to too many people at once, so the server got bogged down. Hopefully it's all smooth from now on.

The lens package we use consists of a 35, 50, 85, 135mm (all Nikons). I don't remember the stop we were at, but I remember we were a few stops shy of wide open. Chad, our DP, would be better at answering that.

Our lighting package was really small. For the bedroom stuff, the key was a 1k arri coming through the window. It bounced some in the room, but I remember bouncing something small in the ceiling, like a 300w. The lightning was done with 2 totas (750 each) outside on a switch, and another 1k into the ceiling again.

For the car crash, we had a lot of small lights that we needed every watt from. That night we used 1 650w, 2 500w pars, 1 300w, and I think 2 1k DP lights. We used an indie dolly for the car crash, and a doorway dolly on track for the bedroom.

Please keep the feedback coming!
 
I love the transition when she's on the bed reminiscing (happy) and turns to find him and it changes to night (despair). Very nice indeed!
 
wonderwall said:
We unfortunately spread the word to too many people at once, so the server got bogged down. Hopefully it's all smooth from now on.

The lens package we use consists of a 35, 50, 85, 135mm (all Nikons). I don't remember the stop we were at, but I remember we were a few stops shy of wide open. Chad, our DP, would be better at answering that.

Our lighting package was really small. For the bedroom stuff, the key was a 1k arri coming through the window. It bounced some in the room, but I remember bouncing something small in the ceiling, like a 300w. The lightning was done with 2 totas (750 each) outside on a switch, and another 1k into the ceiling again.

For the car crash, we had a lot of small lights that we needed every watt from. That night we used 1 650w, 2 500w pars, 1 300w, and I think 2 1k DP lights. We used an indie dolly for the car crash, and a doorway dolly on track for the bedroom.

Please keep the feedback coming!
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nice man real nice. how did you get the car flipped upside down like that was it from a junk yard or something? is this a scene from a short film or is that all? is this the indie dolly you used for the car crash scene? i'm in the market for one.
 
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Thanks for all the comments!

Getting the cars was actually really easy. The director's brother works with cars, and got us the 2 cars for free. They used the tow truck that they brought to tip the car over (that was kind of fun).

And yes, Mickey, that's the dolly we used, only the older version (the one you can't sit on). My biggest complaint for the indie dolly is that you can't sit on it, but now that they've made one you can, it's probably a fantastic deal.

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a4one said:
What cam was used for this shoot? DVX or HVX or A1?
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'Twas none of the above. JVC HD-100.

For the bedroom we stopped down from the normal key about 1/2 stop and for the daytime stuff we were another 1.5 stops down from that in order to make the switch to night work. (so I opened it up during the shot)
 
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