XDCAM EX1 on the road blog

Peter Jackson would be proud of this..
btw: How easy for you to match EX with and w/o Letus?
Maybe you have a set of color matched Zeiss. I always have to have some (hard) time to match my Nikons. 105 beeing a little magenta, 28 yellowish. The 50 beeing ok, but then again far from my DVX alone.
Cheers
 
Nice stuff as always Phil. I like the Zacuto shoulder mount with the lunchbox...I've been thinking about going that route myself.
 
They're all nice, but I really like the silhouetted shot, third from the bottom. Stock or LEX? And how wide?
 
The edit is up on my blog. It's just a fun edit. NOT the finished short film, that is being cut by the director and will be about 7 minutes long. This is just a 2 minute fun tease!
 
Philip, very well done.
You are a very talented man.

Hey, could you give us the low down on your settings,
frame rate, shutter speeds? I see you did some faster shutter rates for that
stoccata look.
 
cheers. The handheld fast shutter was 1/250. The overcrank was 60fps at 720p. The rest was 1080p 25p. Shutter set to off on the letus extreme. I did notice when I got back a couple of specks of dirt on the glass of the extreme. Shame, but you can only just notice it.

The sound wasn't great. I wish it had sounded fuller. Craig who is doing the proper edit will spend some time and money bringing it up to spec!
 
I thought they were risking it with saving money on the sound. False economy using the camera as a sound recorder. If they have a sound guy they should have just spent a little more and recorded it seperately.

Great footage though Phil.
 
nothing to do with using the camera as a sound recorder. Would have made zero difference recording it separately. The Ex1 sound is DAT quality. It's more to do with the sound recordist not covering the wide shots very well. I would have used personals lavalier mics for those shots but he boomed everything just using a 416 on a standard pole, an 816 on an extra long pole would have done the trick, also there was the issue of the A14 and of course our limited time for retakes.

Considering everything am pretty happy with results. If I had more time today (am editing some viral commercials shot on two ex1s, got 7 spots to finish by tonight, am on number two!) I would tweak and fiddle. Find some nice SFX, play around with the colours more. They still look a bit video on the clean shots compared to the LEX
 
He should have lav'd up the main guys. Some Countryman B6's would have been invisible to the eye and done a great job.

416 is fine for most of the work looking at the pics, and an 816 is a good mic for further distances. Hope he spent some time just recording ambient sound as he can use that to be analysed and remove the unwanted background noise. There's a very unwanted drone there.
 
phillip-

sorry but link is not working for the new ww1 version. love the production shots. as always, thanks for sharing

be well

rob
 
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