Just competed a short film shot on the FS100-"International Orange"

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I got my FS100 back in November of 2011, and "international Orange became the first serious film project I planned to do with the FS100, related the the 75th Anniversary of the Golden Gate Bridge, called "International Orange - The Bridge Re-Imagined." I started it in March of this year, shooting through early May of this year.

I used the wonderful Metabones EOS to E adapter and Canon 24-105 L 4.0 and 17-55 EF-S 2.8 as well as Zacuto EVF. For the picture profile I used Glencolor GLOG B, which was pretty good but he's since made some improvements in that, and by happy accident it really emphasized the 'International Orange" color in the film.

There are a few clips here and there shot with a couple of smaller consumer camcorders, Panasonic tm700 and 900 but 99% was shot on the FS100, and I'm pretty happy with the look.

Please feel free to ask me any and all questions about my experience with the FS100.

Enjoy.

vimeo.com/keithmoreau/international-orange

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Wow... your post is really annoying. Why not just write with white on black?

Looks like a fun job, watching kids experiment and grow is always a treat. I'm afraid I'm not particularly keen on your handheld theme, makes me feel like I'm on a boat (in a bad way) :S
Also some choices of standpoint where I as a view really wanted to look at things from a different vantage point... like when they were piecing it together.
 
Keith don't post white on white again. I almost missed you great little film.

I really enjoyed it and I didn't at all mind the hand held camera work seemed to fit the spontaneity of the situation.

That was so far removed from how art was taught in my school as a child. What a great bloke.
 
Thanks for watching and taking the time to interpret the unintended barely readable post, I don't know what happened with the text in the post being white, that IS annoying! I fixed that.

To legeve: the handheld as well as the shot choices were partially a creative but also a practical choices. I pretty much had to shoot handheld, and I was on the floor or kneeling and / or shooting at waist level much of the time to avoid looking down at the kids, who are 1st graders about 4 feet tall. Things were happening pretty fast in the class, and I had to be mobile and able to quickly adjust and it probably wouldn't have worked on a tripod. I also felt it was more important in the bridge building scene to show the kids' expressions at the expense of showing as much of the actual piece they were building.

Handheld: yeah, it can get a bit rough on occasion, but I feel that in the last 10 years or so viewers in general have become accustomed to handheld work, even extremely unstable hand held work, ala Cloverfield (JJ Abrams). Now it seems many narrative dramas are handheld, as it seems to convey a heightened sense of 'being there' as opposed to being removed in a static shot. I had a couple of other camcorders on tripods, a manned and unmanned one. I actually had to add 'shaky cam' effects to those to make them match with the FS100 or they would have seemed out of place. It's kind of ironic that post stabilization is so important, but I was doing the opposite, making steady footage less steady! :) I do agree that a few times it gets a little too shaky and hope the audience will overlook that.

To Nirv - Thanks for watching and appreciating the point of the film, which is to show how a great teacher can engage the kids. I know it's something these kids will take with them the rest of their lives in a positive way. I also think you got my point about the hand held work, which was partially a creative decision to emphasize the spontaneity, you hit the nail on the head there!
 
I forgot to say how great the preset looked that you used so hats off to Frank. The paint did look superb.

The film reminded me of one of my favourite documentaries Etre et Avoire and the teacher in that had a similar approach of empowering the children to explore and think creatively.

I left school thinking art was being able to draw flowers well because that was the limit of art education in my school. I should imagine everyone connected with the video are very pleased with the outcome. A great advert for all concerned.
 
Nirv,

Thanks much for your feedback and observations, as well as the extraordinary compliment comparing my film to "Etre et Avoire." When I first shot with Glencolor GLOG B, and looked at the rushes, it seemed a bit noisy to me. Since that version of the profile Frank has updated it to reduce the noise by lowering the black level and other adjustments, I think it's even better now. However I think the FS100's noise, happily, is pretty organic and film-like.

And all connected with the film are very, very happy with the outcome, and that's also gratifying.

Again, thanks for watching!

-Keith
 
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