A Tropical Hideaway

Ted Ramasola

Ted Ramasola

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Something I just finished this morning. Shot this couple of months back, the resort footage was entirely DSLR, the 30 second intro with a JVC hd100.

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Fantastic. Great job.

You really captured all the elements the destination - food, culture, entertainment as
well as the beauty of the resort itself.

I'm interested to know how long you shot there for as well as what gear you brought
(lens, dolly tract, underwater housing, etc). There were a couple of very nice jib shots
so I'm assuming you had a crew?

Again, terrific work.

P.
 
Thanks Peter,

We had 2 and a half shooting days for the resort. The intro was done on another occasion for a different project.

I always work in a small crew, I only have 2 assistants.

All my major support gear are DIY discussed fully in these threads;

DIY Mattebox http://www.dvxuser.com/V6/showthread.php?t=140312

DIY RodRails http://www.dvxuser.com/V6/showthread.php?t=205028

DIY Gearless Follow Focus http://www.dvxuser.com/V6/showthread.php?t=185853

DIY Loupe/Finder http://www.dvxuser.com/V6/showthread.php?t=185852

DIY Track n Jib (Slider alternative) http://www.dvxuser.com/V6/showthread.php?t=196598

DIY Plywood MiniSkater http://www.dvxuser.com/V6/showthread.php?t=40901

Also had a DIY 13 foot Jib, sorry don't have documented plans of that yet.

Housing is a dicapac, rated to go down up to 10 meters, they say, havent tried it that deep though.

Lenses; Nikon 80-200 f2.8, 50mm f 1.4, Sigma 20-40 f2.8, Tokina 11-16 f2.8.

Also, in post, Grading and Title captions all in EDIUS.
Except for the Logo graphic in after effects.

Hope that helps.
 
Wonderful looking footage. I especially liked the sunset shots on the beach "Discovering Ancient Arts", and riding down the slide and into the water.

Let me know if you need a 2nd shooter sometime ;)

My only suggestion, if I may, would be to change the music. The piece that you go to around 1:00, and then back to again after that bands plays, sounds to me very much like stock, more so thatn it should. Around 1:55 when the horns come in, that works, but the other parts I don't think do.. just my opinion. I LOVE the native music... when it goes back to the stock track it lets me down lol...

Great video though overall!
 
Thanks Mike,

Youre right on the stock music though, had to bring that back cuz the native lyrics just got tooo gross , for me that is, its a typical native folk song about a boy liking a girl, i had to mix it down cuz its getting to the part that says "the poor boy was just staring at the girl with his saliva dripping down his mouth..." LOL!!
 
Thanks Ted for providing all that detail on your crew and gear. When one sees great
work, it's very helpful to know how it was accomplished. The use of the dicapac was
a real revelation. I never realized they could be so effective.

Congratulations again on a great video.

Best.

Peter.
 
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