Framing Memories

ChuckS

ChuckS

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My wife owns an art gallery and a while back she showed me a well done video called "A different Kind of Nature" with a guy walking around with a picture frame and wanted to do the same thing for her gallery.

This is the result.


 
I couldn't make out any discernible connection between anything so it really didn't impact me at all. Was there supposed to be or is it just a POC of compositing?

The opening shot was heavily Jello'd out.
 
Thanks avidya, I'm glad you liked it.

Its not that difficult to figure out, each framed video was followed by the corresponding memory as she walked around collecting and storing memories. I don't know what POC means and it depends what you consider the opening shot, the very first shot has no jello at all, the next two where shot from an RC with a GoPro which has marginal quality to begin with.
 
I liked the "RC GoPro" shots a lot. If you dont know whats going on, can look rather impressive :) and a good tool to have for some shots. Could you elaborate a bit more on the setup you used for those shots?

I also think there is a lot of jello going on. Most probably from software stabilisation? If i know the shot is going to be heavily stabilized, i always use higher shutter speeds.
 
I liked this a lot. The cinematography and motion tracking on the frames was very nice. However, I agree with some of the others that it was hard to get a sense of what was going on. It felt more like an experimental piece to me with no story. Also at the end, this may just be personal preference, I didn't like the final few shots. It looked like you were zooming out on photos of the environment with the picture frames positioned in 3D space. I would have just done a real camera move and used a 3D camera track, it would have fit better with the rest of the film, I think. Also, the really quick pans at the end felt really out of place with the rest of the slow and contemplative cinematography, it seemed very jarring to me.

Overall, though, I really did like this. Great work on the cinematography and visual effects!
 
latyshev said:
I liked the "RC GoPro" shots a lot. If you dont know whats going on, can look rather impressive :) and a good tool to have for some shots. Could you elaborate a bit more on the setup you used for those shots?

I also think there is a lot of jello going on. Most probably from software stabilisation? If i know the shot is going to be heavily stabilized, i always use higher shutter speeds.
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Thanks. The jello was mostly from the GoPro. The Aerial shots were meant to be temp shots that I never had the time to go back and re-shoot. The props were out of balance which caused the jello.

tommygdawg said:
I liked this a lot. The cinematography and motion tracking on the frames was very nice. However, I agree with some of the others that it was hard to get a sense of what was going on. It felt more like an experimental piece to me with no story. Also at the end, this may just be personal preference, I didn't like the final few shots. It looked like you were zooming out on photos of the environment with the picture frames positioned in 3D space. I would have just done a real camera move and used a 3D camera track, it would have fit better with the rest of the film, I think. Also, the really quick pans at the end felt really out of place with the rest of the slow and contemplative cinematography, it seemed very jarring to me.

Overall, though, I really did like this. Great work on the cinematography and visual effects!
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You are correct, there was no story here, just the idea of collecting memories and storing them, more of a conceptual thing. I also agree that moving the camera rather than zooming out on a very large picture would have been better but totally impracticable. The warehouse was very tall and narrow, I used a 7mm fisheye lens and stitched six shots together to get the FOV I have. I did the swish pans to condense time and cover up a lot of the distortion from the fisheye.
 
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