Frame Grabs - 48 Hr Film - AF102

Shooter

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Frame Grabs form our entry to a 48 Hour Furious Film Making Competition.

Horror genre.

Scenes only had a light grade and C.C inside Premiere Pro. ( No time to give it a full treatment)

D.P was Greg , who usually A.Cs with me. He did a great job . AF102 , Nikkors 17-35mm and 28-70mm + Nikkor 85 f1.8 lenses. 1080ph. On board sd cards. Basically default settings. 200 ISO and 400 ISO
(I was the editor on this production.)

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WOW Shooter, you really make the camera shine!!!!!!!!! Just great images. Should shut up the naysayers. Just GREAT WORK!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Would love if you post some of your favorite settings on the AF100.
Thanks Shooter for these great grabs!
 
dustylense said:
WOW Shooter, you really make the camera shine!!!!!!!!! Just great images. Should shut up the naysayers. Just GREAT WORK!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Would love if you post some of your favorite settings on the AF100.
Thanks Shooter for these great grabs!
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We work on default settings and I cant advise or say loud enough... this camera is great at default and tweaking settings does not create a "magic bullet" solution to looks. The settings are largely technical settings and not creative settings IMHO
 
Shooter said:
We work on default settings and I cant advise or say loud enough... this camera is great at default and tweaking settings does not create a "magic bullet" solution to looks. The settings are largely technical settings and not creative settings IMHO
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Thats what I thought after some of your previous posts. And, I agree with you!
 
Looks great. Would love to see the film.

By defaults, which Scene File default setting are you referring to?

Also, how the heck do you embed pictures in the post in this manner. I've tried to do it but can't figure it out!
 
Shooter said:
We work on default settings and I cant advise or say loud enough... this camera is great at default and tweaking settings does not create a "magic bullet" solution to looks. The settings are largely technical settings and not creative settings IMHO
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great stills, by default i'm assuming you mean everything set to factory "0" settings correct? If so, glad someone posted an example. Do you know what or how much lighting was used in the outdoor nighttime scenes?

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Also, how the heck do you embed pictures in the post in this manner. I've tried to do it but can't figure it out!
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click the "insert image" icon and then click the "from url" tab then copy and paste your url to where the image is hosted.
 
Absolutely gorgeous...hands down the best AF100 images I've seen so far bar none.

NOTE: The embedded images seem like they were downsized in a way that didn't really make a flattering picture. The edges are pretty jagged. Wasn't sure if you noticed that. Even with that they look stellar! Would love to see a few full-rez stills of the best stuff :)
 
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NOTE: The embedded images seem like they were downsized in a way that didn't really make a flattering picture. The edges are pretty jagged. Wasn't sure if you noticed that. Even with that they look stellar! Would love to see a few full-rez stills of the best stuff
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The edges look straight and sharp to me . All I did was grab the frames ( png) and batch downsize them. All I noticed was a slight crushing of the blacks.

Thanx to everyone for the great comments. Credit is due the D.P ( and the camera / lenses). None of you have seen the stellar job I did editing the show so I can take no credit...YET.

BTW : I have asked Greg to comment on the settings he used. Hopefuly he will be along here sometime soon.
 
Those images look really nice to me. The colors are rich and saturated, but a little too contrasty for my taste.

The night shots look a little artificial to me, especially for a spooky film ( if it is ). Nothing that scary about dark space around subjects. Seeing spots of light and depth gives it more dimension IMO
 
Right, here goes . First post ever !!

Scene file was F5.
I chose Cine V. Contemplated B Press so I could change the knee but decided against it. Shooter and I have shot heaps of commercials with Cine V and I prefer to stick with something that I know and have seen before. It makes for less surprises in the "How Come Room" (which is my term for the Post Suite. Because that's the room where the Producer or Director asks, "How come that looks different from when we shot it." etc)
The only default setting on the camera I changed was to drop the Master Ped to -1. I wanted to make sure the blacks were black. If I was braver, I would have dropped it some more but I figured we could extract some colour and fiddle with the contrast if we wanted to in Post. Being a film person, I'm not afraid of black.
The camera performed great. I relied on the in-built waveform to set exposure.

The exterior shots I set the Camera's ASA to 200. The interiors and night exterior were at 400 ASA. The night scene I shot with 2 HMIs. A 2.5 HMI lighting the girls right hand side and boy's left hand side. Fill was a 575 HMI. That was pretty much all we had power for. No diffusion in front of the lamps other than some "dingle" which consisted of a leafy twig waved gently (and sometimes not so gently by the grip !!) I did set the white balance to about 4300K rather than 3200 which I thought was just too "blue".

The day interiors were lit with a 4ft Kinoflo with 3 daylight and 1 tungsten tube/s. I used a 200 HMI for the light on the Cross in the bedroom. I wanted just a little pool of light on it but couldn't dim the lamp enough so ended up with3 layers of some blue gel that knocked the sting out of the lamp and gave us a funky colour. I had other colour gels but no ND gel (that was in the lighting truck 15 minutes away so I just went with what we had.) Happy accident ? I reckon.

My camera assistant Tom, used the red edge focus assist to his advantage. When we finished, he had a call time for a real paying job at 6-30am the next day. That's dedication for you.

We were given the script at about 8-00am, spent about half an hour doing a read trough with the actors, planning with the Director and the Gaffer/Grip what to shoot and when and we were into it. I guess we rolled camera before 9-30am and wrapped at 10-15 pm. We stopped for lunch and dinner. 3 location changes throughout the day. So we were busy. Driving home, there's always a hundred things that go through your head that you wished you could have done differently if you'd had the time and people.

Thanks Shooter !!
 
...and from what Greg just told you... I will add.. the quick and dirty C.C / Grade I did on what he shot ( accurately exposed) was:

Minor Level and gamma adjustment to "legalise"
Color Desaturation most scenes eg 84 - 90%
Lowered White level out put on certain scenes (sky control)
Minor skin tone matching across scenes using a Primary grade
No secondary grading used at all

One scene was tricky for him to light. I added a soft gradient mask to add focus / interest.

Basic intention was a real film grade - NO funky 'Magic Bullets LOOKS'


The black detail and true look is not 100 % accurately displayed in the frame grabs. It was more so... on the big screen.
 
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