Frame Grabs - 48 Hr Film - AF102

Nothing that scary about dark space around subjects. Seeing spots of light and depth gives it more dimension IMO
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Do no disregard the impact that an actor and audio brings to a scene.
 
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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What settings did you use for the day/night shots?
What kind of grading was done on the exterior shots?
Any noise reduction plug in used on the night scenes.

Looks great amigo!
 
Shooter said:
Do no disregard the impact that an actor and audio brings to a scene.
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As an actor and a musician, i agree completely. From a visual standpoint, it could have used more ambient lighting. But as was stated, you guys had limited resources so it was quite successful.
 
Shooter and Greg. That you got such good images out of the camera shouldn't be surprising to people who have seen your collective work before. Top notch stuff, this. Rating the camera at 200 and 400 is very conservative and, I believe, a very good place for it to live. When working at 800 and higher, some noise is to be expected. It is refreshing to see someone working in CineLike on this camera and your results are fantastic. Thanks for sharing!
 
So it's not Shooter (he didn't shoot) it's not his settings (default)... it's his camera!
He (and Greg) have the special Kiwi camera!!! hahaha! :grin:

No, seriously, excellent work Greg!!! Kudos! The Cine-V looks great!
What did you look for in the WFM? Skin levels and blowout prevention? Where did you keep things on average?

And nice, subtle grading, Shooter (AKA Editor).

Looks like great casting too, based on what the actors project in stills- can't wait to see the film, guys!
 
Johnf said:
What settings did you use for the day/night shots?
What kind of grading was done on the exterior shots?
Any noise reduction plug in used on the night scenes.

Looks great amigo!
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No Noise Reduction was applied.
Daylight scene grading was a little de saturation of color and a little White Output reduction. Tiny bit of hue control to match skins when intercutting one scene to minimise some green bounce from some foliage. If I have time I will see if I can post up a little side by side of some scenes (source vs. graded)

Philosophy for the post was - Do Only what ever can be done Real time. ( No Rendering) Premiere CS5.5.
I ended up rendering only 1 effect in the Opening Title ( Roughen edges which I had applied to the Title text)
Premiere real time really Rocks!

Thing about shooting 48 Hour type projects is one must take on board a "that will have to do" mentality. There is so much everyone wants to add and do ( shoot and post) but the competition has strict deadline ( 7 pm Sunday). Its frustrating. Everything gets compromised everywhere.

Many teams get over ambitious , have tech issues or dont plan the post timing properly. They dont make the deadline. They get instantly DQ'd

Whatever...shooting with the AF102 as was done here...was trouble free for us. We planned not to get to tricky.
 
jburke14 said:
I haven't seen mentioned the matrix used? I'm trying to find a good matrix for projects like this.
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That will have been what ever matrix is default at F5 Scene Setting.

As Greg said. He only dropped the Ped -1 from Default.

D.Ps often do a minute tweak just for the hell of it. eg a line closed on f5.6 or a nudge open on f4 and 1/2. Kind of what Greg did maybe! :-)
 
Shooter said:
That will have been what ever matrix is default at F5 Scene Setting.

As Greg said. He only dropped the Ped -1 from Default.

D.Ps often do a minute tweak just for the hell of it. eg a line closed on f5.6 or a nudge open on f4 and 1/2. Kind of what Greg did maybe! :-)
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Cinematrix? Looks really clean in the night stuff too.
 
Mickey Munday said:
great job on this it looked fantastic. i'll be honest though, in terms of the story, i had no idea what was going on. stuff seemed to just happen. other than that, great use of the af100.
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Thanx Mickey.

The story: Its kind of filled with local reference ( kiwi /NZ culture and kiwi /NZ icons) that may not translate so well to "foreigners" in a short film idiom which requires moving a story ahead pretty rapidly without too much time to spell out a plot. eg. one character is highly recogniseable in NZ as the "man" from the WXXXX's Hamburgers chain. ( International Brand)
 
Absolutely phenominal shots!

I hope that I can coax the same images out of my camera (they must be in there somewhere!).
 
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