New music video premiering exclusively at Spin.com!
- Thread starter Jeff Ray
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Hi jeff, One of the nicest MVs Ive seen anywhere this month... great job.
Jeff Ray
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We did in fact shoot at 60 frames for slow mo, and a lot of that is used in the video. But there are probably 9 or 10 shots in the video that, in addition to being shot at 60 frames, were further slowed down with the Twixtor software.
I wanted to use Twixtor more, in fact the video was initially concepted to really emphasize the extreme slow motion, but it's a tricky application that requires a lot of skill and knowledge to use it to it's fullest extent. I purchased it thinking all you had to do was apply it to your clip and you were done. But it has a lot of problems with conflicting motion (like drum sticks, etc.) so I had to pick and choose what we were ultimately able to use.
Anyway, glad you liked it! Thanks for the feedback guys.
Not every video has to be 4k
a lot of people who are given 4k don't do a video like this. So bands and labels are willing to pay 40k, 100k whatever to make a video. This video had guys in a warehouse. they can get away with a 4k video and if the dp knows what they are doing they can make it look great. This video looks like a 40k video, and beleive it or not a lot of people couldn't have achieved it without a 40k budget. They would need to hire a lighting guy, a crew, an editor, etc. It just happens this guy could do most of those jobs which is super rare.
But people don't expect every 4k video to look like this. It actually is very rare to see a 4k video that looks this good. I bet you 99 percent of 4k videos look very average and even bad.
There is money in music videos. People want to sell their bands. Most labels don't want to only spend 4k on a video they want to pump some money into their product. It really depends on the concept and whats being done. The insane money of the 90's is gone though and if that is what you mean then yes videos aren't cash cows anymore.
Ronster
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Awesome
Jeff Ray
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Just regular 100 watt soft white bulbs. And then we had two different sizes of china balls. Half were nylon based and gave off a more blue tone and half were paper that gave off a warmer tone.
Thanks for the feedback guys!
What did you use for Color Correction & the vertical streaking effect? What monitor do you use to color correct? Was it difficult to correct the temperatures of the lights?
Also, what type of lenses/set up did you use?
Extremely tight video - I've watched it probably 20 + times & showed many.
Thanks!
dc
Also, what type of lenses/set up did you use?
Extremely tight video - I've watched it probably 20 + times & showed many.
Thanks!
dc
Jeff Ray
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The overall color tone was pretty much done in camera. Just offset the white balance and put the color temperature in camera to +5 or so. I used the "Stripes" plug-in filter in FCP for the vertical streaking effect and just took the opacity down to about 15 percent.
No special lenses, all stock HVX.
Glad you liked it!
by offsetting the white balance & adjusting the temp to +5 - was that responsible for getting all the lights to match temp wise? or was any of that cc. In your earlier post you mentioned that some of the China balls were different temps but all look cool & blue/white....
Thanks for taking the time to answer questions!
Thanks for taking the time to answer questions!
dantewaters
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Great job jeff it's soo important to have your vision and execute it.
Now more than ever I am ready to get my HVX I have been putting it off for awhile, but after selling my VX2100, and seeing another one of your stock lens videos I'm ready. Good work love the cold light effect.
Now more than ever I am ready to get my HVX I have been putting it off for awhile, but after selling my VX2100, and seeing another one of your stock lens videos I'm ready. Good work love the cold light effect.
Jarek Zabczynski
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Yes...badass is a great term here. Awesome work!
Jeff Ray
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Yeah, I mean there wasn't too big a color temp difference in the first place. It was noticeable on set, but in camera with the color temp adjusted, they all looked relatively the same. Some CC was done in terms of adjusting the color a little bit further, but not a whole lot.
Evening Films
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planning for the cut
planning for the cut
Just picked up on this thread... nice work Jeff!
Did you cut this piece as well? I'm curious how much you planned for the edit when you shot -- did you have specific sequences of shots in mind, or did you just shoot a bunch of cool looking stuff and then build the edit from the visuals after you shot?
--Hans
planning for the cut
Just picked up on this thread... nice work Jeff!
Did you cut this piece as well? I'm curious how much you planned for the edit when you shot -- did you have specific sequences of shots in mind, or did you just shoot a bunch of cool looking stuff and then build the edit from the visuals after you shot?
--Hans
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Jeff Ray
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Yeah, I was Director/DP/Editor. I'd say it was fairly planned out. It changed a bit as we worked through several different edits of the video till the label/band/myself were all happy with it.
We knew where the red sequences would go. We knew we wanted to incorporate the morose code logo throughout. We knew the majority of the slow motion would be in the chorus as oppose to the verse. The part with the spotlight on the lead singer and the china balls dim, that was planned. And the guitar solo with the light kinda revealing the band or however you look at it, that was also planned.
At the end of the video, when the china balls start to fall as we cut to shots of each band member, we had a wide shot of some of them falling, and I even went as far as to digitally composite some more so it looked like a ton of china balls falling. But it was in super slow motion and the label/band felt it needed to end with a bang. I fought it for a long time, till we got to like the 5th cut of the video, and finally conceded, and to be honest, they were right. It worked way better without it, so we took it out.
Jeff