Jewelry Commercial shot on the XHA1

91ststudios

91ststudios

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Hey everyone,

Last time I brought you a 30 second commercial shot for a local jewelry store and well a few months later I have yet another.

This time it is for a 150 year old British company called "Charles Green". They specialize in handmade lockets and gold jewelry.

I felt the shoot went really well. This is my first time dealing with a live animal and one that could completely destroy my equipment, so we were lucky that the horse didn't come my way on the jump scene. Also we were able to get the sixth generation owner to be in it and he is the judge at the end. The only problem I ran into was getting the over the shoulder shot without a monitor which I now find to be an essential piece that I desperately need to buy. Thankfully, it can out pretty sharp.

Any feedback you can give me is appreciated.

Equipment: Canon XHA1, Bogen 516 Pro, Redrock Micro 35mm Adapter for Medium to Close shots (50mm 1.4), and FCP2.

http://www.vimeo.com/661115
 
Very nice! Anytime you can break away from the traditional "product shot" type jewelry store spot, you've done something right.
I liked the focal vignetting (not even sure how to word it) on the first shot, I guess that is from your Redrock, or did you tweak it in post?

My only complaint, and it's small....the trophy! She jumped that huge wall, and all she got was that little wimpy thing? :Drogar-Angry(DBG): Also, maybe some motion on your text, that was fairly plain.

Good job.
 
Deepfocus88 said:
Very nice! Anytime you can break away from the traditional "product shot" type jewelry store spot, you've done something right.
I liked the focal vignetting (not even sure how to word it) on the first shot, I guess that is from your Redrock, or did you tweak it in post?

My only complaint, and it's small....the trophy! She jumped that huge wall, and all she got was that little wimpy thing? :Drogar-Angry(DBG): Also, maybe some motion on your text, that was fairly plain.

Good job.
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Thanks I appreciate the feedback. The focal vignetting is from the Redrock. Our location person actually said that is the type of trophy they get and I also wondered why it was so small. What would you recommend I do on the text? I was going for a very classic look with this and I didn't see any interesting looks in Livetype. I usually do the glow across but it didn't look right for this.

Thanks,
-Josh
 
Agreed! That was really something. I really enjoyed it. Music went well, little girl did an impressive job and the colors were astounding.

-Kegan

EDIT: Had to remove my trophy question and add that it is an interesting trophy, nonetheless.
 
Hunter007 said:
Agreed! That was really something. I really enjoyed it. Music went well, little girl did an impressive job and the colors were astounding.

-Kegan

EDIT: Had to remove my trophy question and add that it is an interesting trophy, nonetheless.
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Thanks! I appreciate the positive feedback. Hah, I think i'll make a better effort on the trophy next time I use one.
 
The images were very nice. I really liked the colors, very old english green, like a jaguar.

I think theres a tad work to do on the sound. The voiceover was so so. I didnt much like the fade to be honest, I thought it just pulled me out of it. I would have liked some live action sound - hooves, not too loud of course.

I just played it again and theres something in the voice over thats really bugging me. Cant quite put my finger on it.
 
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