Some grabs from my in-progress martial arts short

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Huy Vu

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I got together with a few martial artists who are interested in making a 30 minutes action film. We decided that before doing that we would put out some shorts to get the martial artists and crew comfortable working with each others. Started shooting last Sunday and continued this Sunday and I'm very encouraged with the results. These guys are simply phenomenal fighters! We're thinking of making this the pilot of a short web series, with each episode featuring a different martial artists.

Here are some unCCed grabs and a short (very short) clip from what we got so far. On set I'm primarily concerned with getting a neutral look so that I can do radical color correction in post. So far I'm still juggling around a few different looks for CC but have yet to find one that will work for the entire film. So if any of y'all would like to give it a shot that would be cool.

http://youngsterproduction.com/videos/Bottle2.mov

Link to see the film itself
www.youngsterproduction.com/videos/Action Film.mov

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AuditoryVisuals said:
Looks good. But why is it anamorphic?

Hey, I'm going to try the CC. :) You've got really good exposure on these.
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Premiere exports these grabs as anamorphic automatically. I've yet to figure out how to get it back to the proper aspect ratio.

We got really lucky that both shoot dates so far had perfect weathers. Hopefully this Sunday will be the same :).
 
PaPa said:
how did ya do that slow glass breaking shot?
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I shot 60i with a high shutterspeed and do time remapping in AE on a 24fps composition. As to the glass breaking part, that's a real beer bottle that they broke. The guy doing the breaking was wearing extra elbow padding underneath his jacket.
 
Because of time constraint we never got to properly finish this piece. But what we did accomplished was pretty cool so I've put together a cut of what we had. Check it out! Link at the top of the page.
 
Looked like fun to shoot. The scenes look like they were shot in Emeryville, no? Were the other people extras or just passer-bys?
 
Leo Versola said:
Looked like fun to shoot. The scenes look like they were shot in Emeryville, no? Were the other people extras or just passer-bys?
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A lot of it was at the Richmond marina. Most of the people were part of the crew although some were passer-bys.
 
I just checked out the part of the movie that you had up and I thought i'd share my opinions.

Overall the cinematography is good as well as the choreography however I think a lot of the editing is to over the top. For instance there are way to many slow mo scenes in the action and take you out of the pace of the overall movie. I also would have toned down the Color Grading a little.

The scene were the guy jumps over the crx is cool but I would have picked a lower angle for when the other guy gets out of the crx because that car is very low to the ground. The main focus in a martial arts movie is the fight choreography so when there are to many other elements it takes away from that aspect
 
I'm surprised by the number of interlacing artifacts visible. I thought that if you shot 60i and played at 30fps, you could combine the two fields to minimize this?
 
jmc said:
I'm surprised by the number of interlacing artifacts visible. I thought that if you shot 60i and played at 30fps, you could combine the two fields to minimize this?
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It was actually shot 24p, but due to an error in timecode within the tape, the pulldown flag was misread by Premiere and interlacing frames remained. There doesn't seem to be any way to correct this short of manually detecting and removing the pulldown frames, which simply take too much time.
 
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