F35: Love and invention.

Grug

Grug

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This was my second job back from India, and easily one of the most delightful shoots I've ever been on (though the location being just 500m from my house probably helped with that!).

A wonderfully quirky little romance about the things we do for love, that managed to squeeze in steampunk inventions and vast quantities of goldfish in perfect harmony :)

Here are some preliminary grades:

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really great work, immediately evokes a feeling and style of it's own. I can't see on my computer screen, are you cleaning up the blacks in the fist frame with something like NEAT video? Do you have any clips that can be shown?
 
Cheers! No noise reduction on most of them, just the wider two-shot in the living room (where I rated the camera at 800 ISO in order to hold more detail in the curtains on the windows).

Can't show any clips yet, but I'll post something up when I can.
 
Really nice images! Great production design too!

F35 making magic. Of course, only in the hands of talented people!
 
Awesome, thanks for posting Mark.

If you don't mind, how did you light the day interior two-shot? Any Area 48 action?

What about the red/green colour washes? Did you use any LED icelight type wands with gels?

These look great, looking forward to seeing the finished project..
 
Thanks guys :)

Rob, the day interior was a reasonably simple formula: four HMIs outside, an M18 and 2.5k Fresnel pushing through the living room windows, and a 200w HMI PAR coming through the glass slits on the front door, and a 575w fresnel coming through the kitchen window (you can see that in the background of the close-up single on the man). With Area48s bouncing off the wallpaper for fill where needed (we had 1-3 of them in play depending on the shot), and a couple of kinos coming through the smaller side windows.

You can see that setup here:

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Fortunately our living room windows faced south, so we didn't have to contend with any direct sunlight throughout the days. A lot of our scenes in that room had to be shot night-for-day due to the schedule, but I think we pulled it off pretty convincingly... people got very disorientated when they walked outside the house and saw that it wasn't bright and sunny but nighttime and pouring with rain! :)

Movie Light:
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Actual Light:
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I also had a couple of these tiny new Aputure M9 LEDs, which are about the size of a credit card, and have internal batteries, and they're brilliant little things (I had four and this was the first shoot I'd used them on, and straight after this was done I ordered another four!). I tucked them everywhere, as practical lights for the fishbowls, or gaffer taped to the walls to act as a little hair/accent light when needed. The colour quality is excellent, good enough to key with.

In the bathroom scene, two of them were actually my key light(!) I just taped some green gel to wall above the mirror, and used the gel as a cradle(!) to hold the M9s in place at the angle I wanted. The other two I tucked into the shelves to the left of the mirror as accent lights:

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In the inventor's room, I tucked two of them underneath this green glass bowl thing as an accent light, and then supplemented that with an Area48 with forrest green when I wanted to play more of the green into the scene's action:

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Mostly though the inventor's room was lit with one of my favourite lighting dishes... Dedo Soup:

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Thanks for the info. I'm grabbing a few M9s for sure.

I really like the grimy bathroom scene - white accent on the right wall and how it fills the other side of the circular mirror.

Long live the small DLH4s...
 
Really great images, Grug. Very happy to see an F35 put to use in Australia too.
 
Thanks for the kind words fellas :)

WakePlace, lenses were Zeiss CP.2s and CZ.2 zooms. We shot probably 60% of the film on the 15mm T/2.9 CP.2 (our wide lens), 30% on the 21mm T/2.9 (our medium lens) and the rest on the 28-80mm and 70-200mm CZ.2s (28mm was basically our long/portrait focal length, and then we had a few macro shots that we did with the 70-200mm on extension tubes).

We wanted things pretty funky, hence the wide-angles, and there was a 1/2 Black Promist in front of everything and nets in front of the lens as well (on every shot we could get away with it on).
 
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