Doritos Superbowl Commercial Making of/Bloopers

[blownapartstudios]

Here is a making of/blooper reel of our Doritos Commercial.

Making of/Blooper Reel

For those who haven't seen it, here is the original commercial.

Battlestations!

All the footage is ungraded.

The behind the scenes footage was shot on an HV20 in 24P with the cine-mode setting. The cine-mode is extremely flat, in fact much flatter than you can make the GH1. Great for color correction, but it doesn't help here.

You can see a few shots of the DVTEC that we used. Again, this thing is fantastic and there are like a million ways to use it. Even just using it hand-held (not in shoulder mode or with the shock arm and belt), the thing provides a lot of stability. I like the "large camera" hand held look that you get on the GH1 with it, and it really doesn't weigh hardly anything.

I think there are also a few shots of the 20mm + wide angle + FaderND. I still think this worked incredibly well and even with everything combined it's still fairly small. I think we're probably going to be using this set-up a lot.

 

[blownapartstudios]

We're still getting questions about the wide angle adapter on the Panasonic 20mm 1.7, so let me clarify a few things.

First, here is the original dvxuser post on the commercial with my comments.
Doritos Superbowl Contest Entry

You can see the setup we used at around 1:05 and 1:10 on the table next to the GH1. It's the Panny 20mm with the small .5 wide angle adapter and the FaderND. You can see the setup on the camera in a few shots at 2:31 and 2:39, the camera is on the DVTEC and I'm testing framing over my head.

For footage, this setup was used in all the shots down on the grass, so all the "control yourself" and "slap" clips including the one clip where the guy slaps his own hand. It was also used in the "scary nerd face" shot. None of these shots were altered in any way, so hopefully you can tell from this if the quality meets your standards. I can tell you that it exceeded ours, but I've come to find that I'm not really a pixel peeper

If you have anymore questions, fire away.