Grabs From new Short

The ECUS are to help bring you into the character's head, and are used a lot in the V/O sections.

Then, at some other times, they are used to bring you into as intimate contact with a character as you can. Like when the guy is kissing this girl, want to bring the audience right in there with it, with all of the little details you might notice being that close yourself.

Thirdly, some of the ECUs will be used to sort of represent memory. I will tweak the images, so as to become flashes of memories, not complete pictures, but just fragments of things you remember.

Basically this entire short is a flashback, so it is not really told by an objective, omniscient narrator. I am trying for the effect that the guy is telling it and what we see is filtered through his own subjective memory of it.
 
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Grabs from our last day of shooting. I may have one more short day, on the subway, but have not yet decided to add that into the short. Am cutting it rough this weekend to see:

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Cool grabs from today.

TimurCivan said:
mark like the sergio leone, EW establishing shot, then a EXCU cut away. no mids.
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I rewatched Reservoir dogs recently.

When Mr. Blond enters the warehouse, it cuts from very long wide shot to an ECU of Madsen.

gives him status in the scene in a cool way.

sure T new about Leone.
 
er, what did you do? CC?

I am SUPER close to being done with a cut I can get to Herman. The music is going to be very important to this piece, so i want to make sure I give him everything he needs to work his magic.

You should hear the parts of the rough cut, where I try to approximate the music in my head...with my mouth. :)
 
nice grabs guys. looks like an interesting short.

did you guys use a 35mm adaptor? doesn't look like it but just wanted to ask.

was there any specific reason why you did or didn't use one?
 
We used an adapter on the beach stuff. But for the rest, I decided not to, because I wanted to simplify and get back to some basics. I had some specific goals with this piece.

Also, that thing is a little unwieldy and I wanted to loosen up the camera for this one and give it some more of natural, raw feel, like you just happened to be in the same place as these people and peeking in on them. That's next to impossible with the SGPro. It's just too big and heavy.

Plus it just takes too much light to get a decent image. I see so much adapter footage on this site that just looks terrible. Doesn't look like film, it looks like a coke bottle on a video camera. And it's because they did not use enough light.

Timur knows how to shoot with that adapter like no one else, but I wanted to be able to loosen the camera up without having to lock down all of the action with 2K of lights everywhere. Lucky for me, Timur was willing to play along. I told him on the next film in this series(there will be 3 - 3 shorts about death) he can go to town on the lights and ****. :)

But I wanted the adapter for the beach stuff. And that is the only place we shot variable frame rates too, because I wanted that to have a different, more luscious and romantic feel, than the rest of the movie.

Didn't use the adapter on the last comedy we did either. It's pretty much useless on a comedy, because nobody is watching it for the depth of field anyway.

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yea okay see i am debating about using the 35mm addaptor on a feature because i dont want to have to have massive amounts of light everywhere just to get a decent picture. i agree that all the adaptor footage doesn't necessarily look like a film. proper composition, lighting, audio and color correction are way more important than adaptors.

so do the scenes you used the adaptor in (beach scene) flow well with the stock lens footage? can you tell a major difference? well let me rephrase that, do you think the average joe outside of filmmaking would notice a difference?

because if not then i could probably just get away with filming certain scenes in my project with the adaptor also.
 
Well I wanted a difference. That's why I asked Timur to use the adapter for the beach stuff. I wanted it to stand out from the rest of it and be different, because what's happening there in the movie is different. I will add to that with CC and the the fact that it's the only section shot at 60 fps.

But I don't think normal people care about this stuff. Normal people care about acting and story and that's pretty much it. They want to believe it and they want to feel it.

And sound. For some reason you cannot get away with unprofessional sound...
 
Mark Harris said:
We used an adapter on the beach stuff. But for the rest, I decided not to, because I wanted to simplify and get back to some basics. I had some specific goals with this piece.

Also, that thing is a little unwieldy and I wanted to loosen up the camera for this one and give it some more of natural, raw feel, like you just happened to be in the same place as these people and peeking in on them. That's next to impossible with the SGPro. It's just too big and heavy.

Plus it just takes too much light to get a decent image. I see so much adapter footage on this site that just looks terrible. Doesn't look like film, it looks like a coke bottle on a video camera. And it's because they did not use enough light.
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Interesting....

Good grabs, looking forward to seeing a cut! :)
 
I almost hate to admit it, but I love portishead too. They are kind of a guilty pleasure, but soooo luscious. Hopefully Herman likes them, because I've used them to indicate some tempos and feel of some of the music I would like to have.
 
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