C300: C300 Mark II/C100 Cinematography Reel

Eric Coughlin

Eric Coughlin

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Cinematography reel I just finished putting together. Shot on C300 Mark II (most of the early narrative/commercial shots, some interviews, footage with nuns, cityscape shots), C100 Mark II, C100 Mark I, and one shot with a Red Scarlet MX.


Comments and constructive criticism welcome.

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Nice work! Do you recall which lens was used on the second to last shot, of the talking head?
 
Thanks, all!


Lkorver said:
Nice work! Do you recall which lens was used on the second to last shot, of the talking head?
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Here below is the long answer of tech info on all of the interview shots. I guess second to last would be, "2:03, couple at Universal Studios, Canon 24-70 f/2.8 II."

1:47, outdoor suit guy, Canon 24-105, C100 Mark I
1:48, indoor suit guy, Sigma 18-35, C100 Mark I
1:49, indoor suit guy side shot, Canon 24-105, C100 Mark II
1:50, gray shirt glasses guy, Sigma 18-35, C100 Mark II
1:51, kitchen background guy, Sigma 18-35, C100 Mark II
1:51, suit woman, Sigma 18-35, C100 Mark I
1:52, red haired woman, Canon 15.5-47 T/2.8, C300 Mark II shot in 4K
1:53, red haired woman side shot, Canon 70-200 f/2.8 II, C300 Mark II shot in 1080
1:53, doctor gown lady, Canon 15.5-47 T/2.8, C300 Mark II shot in 4K
1:54, doctor gown lady tight shot, 200% crop of previous 4K shot, Canon 15.5-47 T/2.8, C300 Mark II shot in 4K
1:55, sunglasses dude, Canon 15.5-47 T/2.8, C300 Mark II shot in 4K
1:56, sunglasses dude tight shot, Canon 70-200 f/2.8 II, C300 Mark II shot in 1080
1:57, blue dress girl, Canon 24-70 f/2.8 II, C100 Mark II
1:58, blue dress girl tight shot, Canon 70-200 f/2.8 II, C100 Mark I
1:58, outdoor guy, Sigma 18-35, Canon C300 Mark II shot in 1080
1:59, white nun, Sigma 18-35, Canon C300 Mark II shot in 4K
2:00, red tied suit guy, Sigma 18-35, Canon C300 Mark II shot in 4K
2:01, black robe deacon, Canon 24-70 f/2.8 II, C300 Mark II shot in 4K
2:02, Avon perfume ladies, Canon 24-105, C100 Mark II
2:03, couple at Universal Studios, Canon 24-70 f/2.8 II
2:04, lady with blurred out background, Sigma 18-35
 
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Just updated my Cinematography Reel with some more recent projects, including projects with the Arri Amira, Red Epic Helium, and Red Scarlet Dragon. About 35% of it is new footage since the previous edit.

 
I think this is excellent work but I wonder if you could chop it to one minute of total excellence.

Also the message is a little unclear - are you a drama DOP or someone who can do multicam at a conference?

One can see that you have hit the roof of being a generalist and maybe need to consider focussing your 'offer' or splitting the reel.

Some shots can be ripped up.. if I watch with the eye of someone who would be looking to hire an operator/amera/cine glass price level.

Bloke by sea - green
Drama in dark.. underlit (you needed a 12k on a cherry picker)
Stab and old guy - head room - chin cropping
Religious venue - overblown lights - fake flare
Madonna and child - over exposed
59 kid on sofa - you should be tilting down during the slide
visit to cultural site - colours in knee
etc. etc.

It might be worth getting a proper colourist onboard (also to consider sharpness - the real estate is too sharp and some shots look like C300 35mbs mudge)
 
The reel looks good to me.

You really should get "eric@twosensefilms.com" set up and ditch the @Gmail.com address... or if you like Gmail, just set up a $5/mo Google Apps account.

Looks a _ton_ more "established."
 
morgan_moore said:
Also the message is a little unclear - are you a drama DOP or someone who can do multicam at a conference?

One can see that you have hit the roof of being a generalist and maybe need to consider focussing your 'offer' or splitting the reel.
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Yeah, I'm the guy who does it all. I like variety in my work. Perhaps it would be best to have a different reel for each type of work, but it seems a bit excessive to me. Like, what's the point of splitting up the reel if they're all going on your website anyway such that they know you still do events, or corporate, or drama, because they see different reels for each? I suppose you could argue that the event client is going to want to see more than 10 seconds of event footage, the drama client more than 30 seconds, etc., but I think they'll get the general idea well enough in most cases with the two minute reel. I've got time-stamps on my website page which most of my clients go to where they can quickly find each part of the reel based on type of work. And, I've only got so much time to be working on reels, so making a dozen different reels would be rather time consuming.

I know people are of different opinions on this, but I personally can't stand one minute demo reels, as well as when I'm looking to hire other cameramen. Just not enough time to put enough content to accurately get your quality of work across, I feel. Much better to have too much than too little, as as a producer I can always stop watching after one minute if I've gotten the idea by then. I'm speaking mainly in terms of length of reels, and not so much a case where a reel would be improved by removing lower quality shots and thus shortening it.



jbregar said:
The reel looks good to me.

You really should get "eric@twosensefilms.com" set up and ditch the @Gmail.com address... or if you like Gmail, just set up a $5/mo Google Apps account.

Looks a _ton_ more "established."
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I used to have eric@twosensefilms.com and found the e-mail address going through the WordPress engine to be too unreliable. E-mails that would arrive days after being sent, wouldn't arrive at all, etc. I switched to G-mail and the simplicity and reliability is great. Since I don't market myself as a production company and instead market myself as a freelance cameraman I doubt most of my clients (producers) care anyway. I know I sure don't care when I hire a sound guy I've never met before whether his e-mail address matches his website.
 
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Eric Coughlin said:
Yeah, I'm the guy who does it all. I like variety in my work. Perhaps it would be best to have a different reel for each type of work, but it seems a bit excessive to me. Like, what's the point of splitting up the reel if they're all going on your website anyway such that they know you still do events, or corporate, or drama, because they see different reels for each? I suppose you could argue that the event client is going to want to see more than 10 seconds of event footage, the drama client more than 30 seconds, etc., but I think they'll get the general idea well enough in most cases with the two minute reel. I've got time-stamps on my website page which most of my clients go to where they can quickly find each part of the reel based on type of work. And, I've only got so much time to be working on reels, so making a dozen different reels would be rather time consuming.

I know people are of different opinions on this, but I personally can't stand one minute demo reels, as well as when I'm looking to hire other cameramen. Just not enough time to put enough content to accurately get your quality of work across, I feel. Much better to have too much than too little, as as a producer I can always stop watching after one minute if I've gotten the idea by then. I'm speaking mainly in terms of length of reels, and not so much a case where a reel would be improved by removing lower quality shots and thus shortening it.




I used to have eric@twosensefilms.com and found the e-mail address going through the WordPress engine to be too unreliable. E-mails that would arrive days after being sent, wouldn't arrive at all, etc. I switched to G-mail and the simplicity and reliability is great. Since I don't market myself as a production company and instead market myself as a freelance cameraman I doubt most of my clients (producers) care anyway. I know I sure don't care when I hire a sound guy I've never met before whether his e-mail address matches his website.
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Since twosensefilms.com is going through GoDaddy, you could use the free email they offer, and forward that through gmail to take advantage of SPAM filtering, all for no additional cost.

As far as your reel: looks good to me- shows you're getting a variety of work and have a lot of experience. As for guidance on any changes to make if any, are you using any sort of analytics to track what works/doesn't work? You could do quick experiments on various changes, track the analytics (sales, traffic, views, etc.), and move forward based on the analytics: no guessing.
 
NorBro said:
Awesome!

What were you filming for Impact Wrestling?
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Uh, some scripts in front of a white background of wrestlers yelling out lines of dialog. Then various b-roll of different wrestlers before the show started. Basically, some type of promo video. Never did see the final video.

They didn't need the actual show filmed, so the sound guy and I hung around and watched it for around an hour before heading home. Kind of interesting and unique for someone who had never been to something like that before.
 
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jcs said:
Since twosensefilms.com is going through GoDaddy, you could use the free email they offer, and forward that through gmail to take advantage of SPAM filtering, all for no additional cost.

As far as your reel: looks good to me- shows you're getting a variety of work and have a lot of experience. As for guidance on any changes to make if any, are you using any sort of analytics to track what works/doesn't work? You could do quick experiments on various changes, track the analytics (sales, traffic, views, etc.), and move forward based on the analytics: no guessing.
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Free is kind of tempting (though I thought GoDaddy charged for e-mails addresses), but that's pretty similar to the setup I used to have. It went through WordPress, then forwarded to my G-mail account. But, as I said, too many reliability issues. Then I'd also be paranoid the forwarding would not work. And it was difficult to even log into the WordPress e-mail. I've switched to SquareSpace since then.

I'm just having a hard time imagining the type of clients I have going to my site, seeing my demo reels, my equipment list, my experience, and then not hiring me because my e-mail address is @gmail.com instead of @TwoSenseFilms.com. How exactly does that make someone more legitimate? I can certainly see if you're cold calling (e-mailing) corporations for work it'd seem more legitimate and less spammy, but for clients getting your e-mail address from your website, and then contacting you?

What I have a much easier time imagining (since it has actually happened), is a client e-mailing me at my @TwoSenseFilms.com address, there being an error such that I don't receive the e-mail, and then me loosing the client.

I haven't really used analytics. Most of my work lately comes from job websites, as well as local people I know (not as much local co-workers though since I moved to Atlanta recently; need to hit the pavement here!).
 
I haven't used GoDaddy's email, though I'd expect GoDaddy email to be reliable: https://www.godaddy.com/help/set-up-email-addresses-7600 . You've already paid for the domain service, if it makes sense for you, you have the option to get a more marketing friendly email, and can even spin up a few addresses if you ever need them: booking@, sales@, support@, <somespecialevent>@ etc. To be honest I have less trust for the gmail side of the equation- sometimes emails (already read) disappear, won't show up in searches, then later reappear. The only reason I route through gmail is "free" SPAM filtering. Of course it's not free, Google is reading all our emails and tailoring ads based on the intel gathered, selling analytics etc.

If online marketing presence doesn't matter, then these videos don't matter either. If an online presence does matter for marketing, analytics are very helpful in guiding you regarding optimizations to improve content for sales. Minimally you can do before/after and/or live A/B testing to make simple improvements based on analytics results.

How's work in Atlanta? I visited this studio a few years ago, they had a nice production studio and a lot of ARRI cameras & high-end lenses: https://www.sharaf.net/atlanta-gallery/
 
Eric.

On the email thing personally I am a little confused by the entity of TwoSense films. Are you a solo op with an amera available to hire by production companies or are you a production company (with the backroom to script, contract, sign off, run liability and much more) ?

It would seem the equipped solo operator would be best with mynameDOTcom and nameATmynameDOTcom

especially when you have a google friendly name. unlike John Smith or suchlike.
 
No client cares about e-mail addresses when you have $100K+ worth of equipment to offer, hah
 
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