DEPLOYMENT STRATEGY - sci fi/action short

markcheng

markcheng

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hey all, i been a silent reader on this site for a while, but thought i'd join to share some screens from Deployment Strategy, a sci-fi/action film I wrote/directed/produced and have now finished editing!

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Thanks for letting me share!

mc
 
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Looks nice man. I love the eye makeup, must be uncomfortable. Dude looks like Rufio from the movie Hook lol
 
Waheed AlQawasmi said:
I like some of the grabs. The second one in perticualr, umm what was your budget on this?
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good? bad? trying to make it look as good as possible. the guys in Aint it cool helped give me feedback on the quality...would appreciate yours too! :dankk2:
 
Lake Films said:
Great looking flick so far! Any special settings that you used in the DVX?
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don't think so. i'll check with the DP since it was his baby we were using.
 
RightMind said:
This is 16mm, not DVX. Photo on website showed arri rig on a steadicam.
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dude, there's no arri steadicam rig anywhere!! lol. guess that's a compliment? i assure you it's dvx all the way. wish i had budget for 16mm.

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patryk, our DP (above), will be happy you thought it was 16mm. it's just the magic bullet i think that makes you think that.

mc
 
FilmMakerr said:
lol..another poser just to get his video watched maybe?
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i see what photo he's talking about. It's in the Practical FX section. If you read the content, that's a photo from another movie the fx team worked on. it's not this one.

mark
 
great film Mark looked through the site very impressed like evrthing the multibodys loo kgreat and cool all pet store 99 cnet production lol great work and the set looks great to, very great of you to post every thing on ur site for filmaker to get a handle on how things were done much thanx ,for sharing ur experience and knowledge with us , what program did u edit on may asking i am thinking u used premiere am correct ??? and what were ur camera settings ???? and what did you use for color correction what program ??? and what specficly did u tweak in color correction ????

peace n luv

Mark Dog
 
Mark Dog said:
great film Mark looked through the site very impressed like evrthing the multibodys loo kgreat and cool all pet store 99 cnet production lol great work and the set looks great to, very great of you to post every thing on ur site for filmaker to get a handle on how things were done much thanx ,for sharing ur experience and knowledge with us , what program did u edit on may asking i am thinking u used premiere am correct ??? and what were ur camera settings ???? and what did you use for color correction what program ??? and what specficly did u tweak in color correction ????

peace n luv

Mark Dog
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yo mark dog, thanks man. trying hard like all you guys.

1. definitely editing in premiere and fx so far have been done in After Effects.

2. Since the roughcut is barely complete, i haven't made any solid color correction choices yet. I usually slap on a predefined Magic Bullet profile when I preview my work or export a still.

3. I will ask my DP what settings he used for the camera.

btw, I wrote an article (that's more detailed than what's on the site) in the May issue of Student Filmmakers if you any of you guys are interested. The PDF is located here:

http://www.studentfilmmakers.com/bb/viewtopic.php?t=2238 (page 36)

thanks again for your words of support!!!

mark
 
Northainan said:
Nice grabs. Settings? What light kit was used?
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for the lighting package, my DP assembled a lighting package with the budget I told him I could afford. we ended up with something like this:

2 x 1K's
3 x 650's
3 x 350's
4 x 4 foot kino flos
4 x 2 foot kino flos
a couple of bounce boards
a couple misc. off the shelf consumer lights.
the rest was part of normal lighting package- c stands, beefy babies, flag kit, stuff like that.

Power was our major challenge, we kept maxing out and causing power trips. we had to turn off the coffee maker and the space heater in the green room at times. I usually shoot and light my own stuff, but for a project like this I decided to bring on a DP.

Hope this helps!!

edit: copied this from another forum where I post
 
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sorry for the confusion. i only saw the photos and the pic on the site. ishould investigate more before making any false claims. My bad. keep up the good work.
 
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