"Intrigue" FS700 Micro-short

Nice! I like the edit, and the mix of b/w and color. Would you be willing to tell us what lenses and motion control equipment you used?
 
I would be very careful when shooting slow motion. I like to use as close to 180 degree shutter as to not have slow motion artifacts. It also looked like you may have pushed the slow motion on the footage further than you had framerate for, and there was some frame blending. I try to avoid doing that or minimize it by making sure those shots aren't on screen for a long time.

gamma and contrast are critical in black in white work. I saw a lot of inconsistant contrast between your open areas and under the bridge. I personally preferred less contrast when you were under the bridge. Color grading can help you normalize this.

Grain was heavy and apparent with the settings. Getting some extra light in there, or some denoising software could have helped when going to the web. Noise works well in high bitrate mediums but Vimeo still doesn't have what it takes to get a clean grain online.

Jumping to the colored shot is a bit jarring. Maybe a slight desaturation on those shots would still give the effect you were going for, but still fit within the world you constructed.

Title sequence is nice.
 
I have not been disturbed by noise that much. The thing is Justin uploaded the file in SD, that may explain lack of resolution.
Other than that, it made me think about Lynch Mullohland Drive, which is nice... The talent is great.
As for the " all things slow mo "... It goes well with the music. The thing I did not really like is how you lit your scenes, it looks like you didn't have any light at all, it is not always clean and pleasing regarding the exposure and the overall look of your picture. Hopefully DR on the FS700 is quite amazing... Also, going from B&W to color is a good idea, but the greens somewhat looked "electric" and too much saturated... But well, that is only my two cents.
Apart from that, I liked it. Nice effort ;)
 
I used a Sony Zeiss 16-35 and 24-70...no motion control, just AE. One shot I matted two performances by the same actress together, after the cutaway I had a matte of her face on a body double. I shot on a rainy, grey day, which helped the mood I wanted but didn't help my exposures, since I didn't have any direct sunlight to bounce inside. I wasn't satisfied with the footage much, very noisy as mentioned, had to pump the gain to get anything down there half the time, but when I took it to black and white I was able to live with it. I'm pretty sure I didn't slow anything down past what the camera did, but this cut has been done a while so I may have done on a clip or two and not remember.

Jumping back to color for the one clip was a stylistic choice I had some doubts about, but the visuals had some fascinating symbolism to me so I decided to let it stand. I feel like this kind of thing is up to each viewer to decide for themselves, but for me the B&W represents a death state: instead of living her life she is dying a death. When she shoots herself she is free to actually live, which is what the green path makes me think of, which is why I felt it had to be graded so, so green. I freely admit this was not something I was thinking about when I shot the piece, just a clumsy attempt to verbalize what I found in the cut. I'm a big believer in finding things, be they in front of the camera or in an unexpected order of the footage. The green shot was a slo-mo mistake, I thought I had longer than 8 seconds of 240fps (until I got home and looked it up again), but I liked the movement of the wind in the leaves enough to try and use it.


EDIT: by the way...thanks for watching and taking the time to comment!
 
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