Brackendale Part 2

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Steven,

Beautiful photography, I really liked the montains/lake and the sunset at the end, British Columbia is so beautiful place, the montains are just everywhere.

My sister-in-law lived in Yukon for 16 years and she will never stop to tell me I should go there to shoot some films, how beautiful it is there and in British Columbia. One day!!! ;)
 
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Thanks guys, I just noticed that the file is breaking up in places. I'll have to recompress it later....
 
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Very Sweet Steven. 8) 8) 8)
(big surprise)

This Andrew fella doing the music... What does he compose on? Is it software or old school?
 
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Old school and here's the kicker, there's a piece that was written by a French composer named Camille Saint-Saens around the turn of the last century called Carnival of the Animals. I have always loved this piece and actually used it a few years ago in another film I did. The piece used in this film is basically a complete rip off of Carnival of the Animals. I mean, it's almost identical. I don't know how they can get away with doing that...but whatever, it means that I can use it and not pay out the wazoo.
 
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I think anything over 50 years old is free range. (Could be, and probably am wrong)
 
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Yes, but that's fine if you want to hire your own orchestra and record it but not if you are going to use somebody else's recording and the only recordings worth using are less than 50 years old.

You have to pay royalties to the performing artists to use the actual "version" you are including in your film, even though the piece itself maybe public domain.
 
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So does Andrew play all the various instruments or does he hire various other players?

Also, did you use your Photozoom uprezzing technique on this piece?
 
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I have no clue who this guy Andrew is. He is one of the composers in the music library I am part of: http://www.bmgmusicsearch.com/us

Nothing has been uprezzed yet. I still have to do some color correction and I usually live with a piece for at least a week before I commit to uprezzing to a final master.
 
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Steve, once again love your work.

Have you ever thought about giving a seminar on how you get such great stuff out of the DVX? If you haven't and this gives you an idea. Remember I get a free seat for giving you the idea, ha, ha :D :D
 
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I have actually thought about that a lot. I'd love to teach in some capacity, it's just a case of logistics, etc.
 
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do you need more logs? .. every time i try to even show sombody somthing, a voice comes out of mowhere and says "not enough logs". ...and then i cant show them.
 
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[quote author=disjecta link=board=Clips;num=1102519216;start=0#12 date=12/08/04 at 10:09:26]I'd love to teach in some capacity[/quote]

Just booked my flight to Seattle - Be there in the morning!
 
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[quote author=disjecta link=board=Clips;num=1102519216;start=0#10 date=12/08/04 at 10:00:35]I have no clue who this guy Andrew is. He is one of the composers in the music library I am part of: http://www.bmgmusicsearch.com/us [/quote]


disjecta, beautiful work. Can you tell what price you are paying for the licsence at bmgmusic? I checked out the site but did not see a price on there.

Thanks,
Sid
 
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It's free until you distribute it. There is a sliding scale depending on what you are using it for.

When you start doing business with them, you pay an intial $200 fee. Your first usages of music comes out of this so they are not retaining a "security deposit", it's more an intent to do business upfront. For low-level usage (like local cable, etc.) it is $90 a drop for production music. A drop is considered one usage of the track so if you decide you want to extend it, they will charge you extra to stitch the piece in an audio program (what I have done in the past). If you use the piece twice in your film, it will be $180, etc.

I haven't done anything outside of low-level distribution but the price goes up accordingly. You can request a price sheet from them without making any commitment.
 
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Disjecta....we are all Salieri's to your Mozart... And you had to mock us by throwing a dead fish in there!!!
 
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You are too kind.

But seriously, I don't do anything special with the camera itself. I have spent a significant amount of time getting the settings I like but the differences are very subtle to settings used by others.

It's all a question of composition and editing. I can't just look at a scene and shoot it. I think about how it would look on a big screen movie and then compose with that in mind. I study camera moves and compositions in films all the time and that's the way I think no matter how insignficant the shot.

I certainly have an advantage over others with my background as a musician, being finely tuned to the subtlties of sound and having a 6th sense when and where an edit should take place.

Of course knowledge about the technical end or your camera is also very advantageous. There are many times you simply cannot rely on the auto settings and you need to make manual settings quickly to capture a shot exactly how you are seeing it with your eyes or in your mind.

Some of this can be learned, some of it you are just born with but there are no quick and easy ways to become a good cinematographer, it's hard work and it's a lifetime of learning. I look at stuff I shot a year ago and I think to myself "What was I thinking with that shot?!" So it's a never-ending process of evolution.

The only way you can get better is to keep shooting and when that voice inside your head wants you to sit on your ass, defy it and make the effort to get the shot.
 
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