FAT MONSTER FILMS presents "O2" ... Every. Breath. Counts.

Mark Johnson said:
After severely abrading the band's corneas, I Hate Kate forced the entire crew in front of the wind machine. Fortunately, they weren't as good at throwing debris into the blades as we were. .... CLICK BELOW

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THIS CLIP JUST MADE MY DAY!!!!!!!!!!! BAAAAHHHHAAAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!!

can't wait to come see you guys reeeeal soon.
 
Ted Arabian said:
That is an interesting light. Seems like it would make the subject look flat... what was your experience with it?
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It's bright as poo poo and I could NOT stop staring at it. I'm glad it wasn't in my face all day.

Seriously though, as with any light you can do lots of things with it. It's great for eye-light, used off camera as just a regular LED panel, or for the ringlight effect which is what we were going for.
 
I guess I have to do some reading on that light. It looks like it is a simple front-fill light.

I look forward to seeing the video and checking out the results.

Thanks for the reply.
 
Ted Arabian said:
I guess I have to do some reading on that light. It looks like it is a simple front-fill light.

I look forward to seeing the video and checking out the results.

Thanks for the reply.
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Ted,

I especially liked the look that Matty and Tim got by having Justin up close with the Ring Light illumination given the overall lighting of the set (see below). It would have been difficult to get the look otherwise. The thing was quite cool and surprisingly versatile.

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Wow. That is nice. Very subtle.

It is a very interesting light... seems like you can "enhance" a persons age/appearance as this light, being beamed directly from the lens, alleviates many facial shadows.

And it must be great to not have to worry about the camera op casting a shadow while moving about!
 
Charlie Anderson said:
OMG!! that is hilarious!

And I would have Ted Arabian's baby if he could talk the Fat Monster guys into letting me Art Art direct a project.
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Wow. Charlie, that's comittment!

Say, I had an amazingly drunken evening in Towson one night after taking depositions at the Black and Decker headquarters! I ended up somewhere downtown Baltimore and my blazer is still there somewhere. Maybe you can go down and look for it, huh?
 
Dude...Mark, come on man...I totally sent that to you in confidence...I didn't want the whole forum to know what kind of consul I seek...
 
I was going through my iPhone pix from this past weekend and found several of Super Luis holding the slate. This is amusing in several regards:

1) Fat Monster is so damn cheap that we have to use cardboard for slates

2) These were slates for different frame rates. As most of you know, a common music video technique is to shoot the band playing in sync with a sped up version of the song. Then, when you slow the footage you have the band playing and singing in sync but the movements of everything else appear in slow motion. For this shoot we prepared several different takes of the song in progressively faster speeds. Luis was asked to make slates for each one so that we could be sure we knew precisely what sync rate to slow the footage in post. Thus, he's holding "30" for 30 fps. You'll note that he's written "estrogen shots" under it. He made other slates as follows: 36 fps "little girl"; 48 fps "chipmunks" to better define what each sounded like. By the way, it is quite amusing to watch the band attempting to play double speed.

Oh, and everyone who shoots music vids should keep a link to THIS POST by Barry bookmarked as it gives the very precise percentages you need to speed up footage to sync properly. When you have these figures you can create different versions that are perfect matches. We use AfterEffects with the "Time Stretch" function to do this.


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Mark Johnson said:
... As most of you know, a common music video technique is to shoot the band playing in sync with a sped up version of the song.
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I actually did not know this technique. Thanks for sharing. I look forward to seeing the results of this when the video is completed. (and I bet you have some pretty funny footage of shooting this technique!)
 
Hey Mark, do you have any opinions between TimeStretch and TimeWarp? I've been using TimeWarp to slow things down. Why do you choose TimeStretch? Just curious.
 
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