Yawningdog
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Hi. Having owned my A7sii for a couple of months now, I have finally managed to shoot something involving a bit of preparation. Here is a link to the music video that I directed last week...
The camera is fine but I feel that it can be a bit fiddly when under pressure of production. We had quite a lot of setups, involving quite a lot of people, playback, smoke, art dept, grip etc.
The video was shot in SLOG3, exposure was set at 2 x stops over...although in tests, I have found that this camera can take up to 4 x stops overexposed, as long as it doesn't clip. The only major difference when grading overexposed footage is that the colours become more saturated than at lower exposures. Otherwise, it is possible to grade everything to look fine. However, of course, anything that is underexposed, or exposed "normally", is very difficult to recover in the grade, in SLOG 3. The footage was shot in 4K, and then encoded down to 720p for the edit and initial grade (in premiere pro 2015), and then upgrade back to 4K for the final composition and touch up grade.
The grip we used was a Key West camera dolly on ronford baker track. We also used a Hague K8 jib that was mounted onto a manfrotto tripod, and then attached to the dolly. The lighting was fairly low key and provided the role as "props" as well as function. I am actually most proud of the lights that I personally constructed. During the band's performance (sitting on hay bales) I created a large 1.2m x 1.2m square box that consisted of 8 x Fluorescent Bulbs rated at 3000K colour temperature (similar to halogen). I was careful to buy bulbs with a high colour rendering index level (Philips TL-D 90 De Luxe 36W 930 - 120cm (MASTER)). The skirt of "blackwrap" is not the most attractive, but it was a last moment decision to prevent too much flooding. I am also really proud of the individual hanging pendant lights (about 17 of them), which hang down the center of the barn dance section. Those were made from plastic plant pots with 115w round halogen bulbs.
The smoke in the scene adds a good feel and some nice light beams, but it is difficult to maintain absolute continuity when the extras are all rather impatient, and performing for no payment. Oh, on the subject of people, I don't think we could have found nicer dancers, all supplied by the Wilkes Dance Academy from Swindon, UK.
All in all, a great fun video to make. I hope you think the video is OK. Sorry if you have seen it elsewhere, I have posted it on another camera forum.
The camera is fine but I feel that it can be a bit fiddly when under pressure of production. We had quite a lot of setups, involving quite a lot of people, playback, smoke, art dept, grip etc.
The video was shot in SLOG3, exposure was set at 2 x stops over...although in tests, I have found that this camera can take up to 4 x stops overexposed, as long as it doesn't clip. The only major difference when grading overexposed footage is that the colours become more saturated than at lower exposures. Otherwise, it is possible to grade everything to look fine. However, of course, anything that is underexposed, or exposed "normally", is very difficult to recover in the grade, in SLOG 3. The footage was shot in 4K, and then encoded down to 720p for the edit and initial grade (in premiere pro 2015), and then upgrade back to 4K for the final composition and touch up grade.
The grip we used was a Key West camera dolly on ronford baker track. We also used a Hague K8 jib that was mounted onto a manfrotto tripod, and then attached to the dolly. The lighting was fairly low key and provided the role as "props" as well as function. I am actually most proud of the lights that I personally constructed. During the band's performance (sitting on hay bales) I created a large 1.2m x 1.2m square box that consisted of 8 x Fluorescent Bulbs rated at 3000K colour temperature (similar to halogen). I was careful to buy bulbs with a high colour rendering index level (Philips TL-D 90 De Luxe 36W 930 - 120cm (MASTER)). The skirt of "blackwrap" is not the most attractive, but it was a last moment decision to prevent too much flooding. I am also really proud of the individual hanging pendant lights (about 17 of them), which hang down the center of the barn dance section. Those were made from plastic plant pots with 115w round halogen bulbs.
The smoke in the scene adds a good feel and some nice light beams, but it is difficult to maintain absolute continuity when the extras are all rather impatient, and performing for no payment. Oh, on the subject of people, I don't think we could have found nicer dancers, all supplied by the Wilkes Dance Academy from Swindon, UK.
All in all, a great fun video to make. I hope you think the video is OK. Sorry if you have seen it elsewhere, I have posted it on another camera forum.
