"Splitting Hair" to start production the 21st of June

[USLatin]

A few more pictures:



This one was all burned out but I thought it looked kinda cool, sort of. That was an 80mm - 200mm Nikkor that we used only a few times to move quick as we were losing light fast!

I also had to coach a good friend of us, John, though booming. He is a Producer-Actor but he has very good ears and steady hands... I :think: we have very good audio for the first weekend, at least considering the conditions... I just hope there isn't a lot of clipped out tracks...

Here is the same setup I was so happy to do, it allowed us to get right on his eyeline with the dolly when we went from the glass on the night table with ripples from the base of an approaching car and his POV of the window where the car parks and the driver gets out, skateboarding with his surf board under his arm.

We mostly shot on the Rowe Cine Dolly, but I just love Steady Cams and we might not get an operator with his rig to do the comedy club so here are two more.

 

[Matty_g]

framegrabs plz.

 

[USLatin]

I havbe only slept ~15hs in five days so I am a little retarded still, but I'll try to pick a few good ones to show off the SGpro's sweet and plentiful nectar... :thumbsup:

I'll try to look right now for ya Matty_G

EDIT: Oh, btw, Valerie also did our Hair and had excellent input on our wardrobe!

 

[USLatin]

I shouldn't have done this, but I tried CC'ing some stuff for the web, first time I saw the footage. I should have slept instead.

About this scene, I think it might have to end up darker. Some of the closeups, like the first picture here, won't make it high enough without that horrible grainy look from the low light performance of the HVX. The second picture here might be more like it.


I'LL PROBABLY HAVE TO SETTLE FOR THIS MUCH EXPOSURE AND GRAIN:

Making them darker would bring the wide shot to something like this. But I went a tad too unsaturated.

Here is our third scene not counting the surfing intro.
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[USLatin]

Ok, so I slept a few hours and after looking at these select grabs again I know I can get more out of them, which is no surprise since yesterday was only my first session with the footage and only a quest for grabs in a movie with lots of motion blur. We had the shutter at 1/48th for a while here and there, and we moved the camera a lot. I think it will work very well, together with the 24mm 2.8f and the 35mm 1.4f that we used tons of. The best stuff imho is all that long lens stuff... the 85mm 1.4f and 180mm 2.8f were just delightfully beautiful, but it seems we had a problem with the mount! It was an older Nikon mount from SGpro, it had a lot of play to it as it was damaged somehow, the lens would rotate a little, but never with the Follow Focus. This might also contribute to the 85mm being stunningly favorite. The great news are that Michael, CordVision, will be getting the new stainless Nikon mount before we shoot again! Michael checked back focus after every setup, turning off the SG helps do both have to look at the grain which is impossible not to want to look for sharpness when it is sitting right there and you are framing with it.

Anyway, just trying to mess with the actual footage today, no more stills please guys. I have a few more for you if you want, but I can't keep looking at stills cause it is freaking me out when I see noise from the HVX in the dark areas... and I should do some actual CC'ing with motion not just on single frames that I selected.

EDIT: well... hehehe.... I am too tired to edit anymore already, but here are a few more frame grabs. But I still need to match them perfectly.




Much easier with Daylight, but we were getting a little too dark due to the tall buildings on either side.

Here is Rob and Nikki's house, it is supposed to be the afternoon, close to sunset. I need to find how far the darker takes will go and match the rest to them. Also have to figure out what to do with the color.

I have to tone down the warmth on this one

Here is an other CU of Nikki at their house when they have Hunter over

This is the roof scene between our lead and the Surfer who opens up Hunter's eyes. We'll 75% likely reshoot it... unless we can't.

 

[Neal Buconjic]

Congrats on getting the bulk of the shooting done.
Hopefully the upcoming shooting dates find you with a FULL crew!

 

[USLatin]

Thanks Neal, It is all a little much for me right now, without help in pre-production it is a bit tough to keep up with the schedule, but we are getting great stuff... We'll end up shooting the original 5-6 days I planned for though.

This is the Day-Dream sequence that Hunter, our lead goes into... well this is something he consciously day-dreams about to take advantage of his day-dreaming time
Drew (Drew Ott) will be doing some ramps with Twixtor, it was shot at 720p 60fps which will make it a little soft on it's own when we up-rez it to the 1080p timeline, but that works cause I always planned on diffusing the crap out of the highlights like this... Drew said he would try making our real-speed moments 26fps and then use ramps all the way up to 120fps as he thinks they will help and be noticed the most... which will add lots of production value.

This is the original footage.

 

[cordvision]

it looks quite soft. Is it just out of focus or are all the shots like this?

 

[cordvision]

I think the blacks need to be compressed a bit. Since the gamma was set to cineD, all the blacks seem to be a little bit milky. I think it looks immediately much better like this --->

 

[USLatin]

Hey Michael! You rocked the 1st AC + DIT responsibilities you took on... EXCELLENT job both Saturday and Sunday! I am honored to have had you in our camera dept.

Yea, if is a bit soft, but not all of them are. I actually want it VERY soft since it is a dream sequence, a day dream about a hot girl... and the shot of the Surfer with the 24fps to 120fps ramp, or even if we shoot 1080-30p and we only go from 24fps to 80fps when we ramp up on the Surfer, all of that stuff will take us into a moment in the film where anything goes... I wanted to start on Michelle with something out of focus that pulls into focus but have the focused section of the shot look something like the first shot of her.

Then we can add the other sharper shots and make a montage of sorts with them... fading from one to the other... feel free to come over for post when you get a free day and what not :thumbsup:

EDIT: I re-did the surfer grabs a bit and re-uploaded them to the same spot

 

[USLatin]

A few frame grabs from the third day of production (I will upload some from the fourth day as soon as I can).


These are from a scene we had to pick up from last weekend.

And here is our climax scene.

 

[USLatin]

I do have a few more BTS pictures.

This is Eric Kenehan who came over to operate camera