CARRY-ON - A Caffesse/Wildman Film

Glad to see you makin' progress. Audio can be tough sometimes, but don't sweat it. I'm sure you probably won't have to do as much as you think.
 
Hi Luis. Glad to hear everything is coming together. I'd love to be able to test audience a film one day. I never have the time.

Hope the audio comes together. Good luck.
 
mentatDUKE said:
Hi Luis. Glad to hear everything is coming together. I'd love to be able to test audience a film one day. I never have the time.

Hope the audio comes together. Good luck.
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Thanks.

Working on it right now... looks like it might be okay.
We'll see.

I'm hoping to have a cut that's watchable by the end of tomorrow.
Hopefully I can make that deadline.
I don't want to be one of the many rushing to upload at the last minute.
 
Alright - I threw up some grabs from our first scene.
Clearly no CC work on those or anything of the like.

Just two people talking.... not much to see here folks.
:)
 
It's simple - but the idea was to go for a 'natural' look.
I'm no DP (and don't pretend to be) but we did the best we could.
You can see the setup for that second grab in the first BTS shot in the post below it.

Just a couple of Flo lights as key, a reflector for some fill, and the backlight is that new Coollights HMI 150watt with a little CTO on it.
(thanks for Drew Ott for lending his Coollights gear to the shoot).

I should mention that fellow user Stephenmick also was invaluable - lending us his Arri kit as well as his shoulder rig for this.
They were used in other parts of the film.
 
Mark Harris said:
Jeeze Luis to hear you talk, I was expecting some really crappy stuff. Those look nice!
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Hahahhaah.
Thanks, Mark.
:)

Well, a lot of it is in trying to keep it simple and staying within my comfort zone.
Most of the work I've done in the past where I have to light my own stuff has been talking head interview type situations.
So... a couple of simple OTS shots was probably within my reach.

The stuff that really impresses me is the nice wide stuff that you guys have going on (like those bar shots through the window you posted).
Going in on a close up doesn't seem that tough to light. But lighting up a room like that and really creating depth with the shadow and light,
that's where I think you can really see someone's talent coming through (Timur, I'm looking in your direction)
 
It's the Letus Extreme.
We shot 1080, but I'll be mastering it on a 720P timeline.
(and I don't want to hear any guff about it)
:)

Sure - give me a second and I'll put up a link to a full res grab.
I should say that any softness seen in the grabs is full my doing, and not a fault of the adapter. We got the Letus about a week before the shoot, so I'm not very experienced in working with it. We also shot with no monitor - so I had nothing to go off of but the HVX LCD screen (which is already inadequate for focus on its own in my opinion, much less with an adapter).

We had just about the best glass possible on the adapter given the nikon mount - a set of brand new Zeiss lenses (thanks to yet another gracious user on the site).

So let me see if I can find a point where I'm actually in focus.
When it's sharp...it's really sharp.
And when it's not.... it's my fault.
:)
 
That's what I wondered. There seemed to be just a teeeny tiny bit of softness that might be chalked up to JPEG compression. No worries.
 
Nope - I would chalk it up to me. Either that, or motion blur.
These are pulled form the middle of a dialogue scene and they're moving around a bit.
That might play a part in it too. Either way - from what I've seen it's definitely not the fault of the adapter.

Here is a full res grab of her

Seems to be a lot of pixelation on it for some reason, and I'm not seeing that in FCP.
Not sure what's going on there (exported as uncompressed TIF).
 
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