"November", shot on the DVX, just came out on video today

crap, i was looking for this a few days ago because i thought it was already out. i asked the guy in blockbuster and he told me it was in the "N" section....no **** moron.

i'm going now.
 
I wasn't too impressed with the movie itself, but some of the DVX footage was good. I wouldn't use this movie to showcase the DVX though, only because the film school directing, cliche' story, and wooden acting of Mrs. Cox , detract from the cinematography and the camera.

I agree with an earlier poster, that the surreal lighting was less effective than the more natural footage, later in the flick. For an indie, I thought they would have loaded up on the Special features, but it was pretty rudimentary.
Good to see if you own a DVX though.

I believe "Stay" was a much better film, in this genre,IMO. :beer:

Cheers.
 
What other movies has the DVX been used for that are worth seeing? At least, movies I might be able to find at a local video store or something...
 
I saw Lonesome Jim in the theaters... I don't remember being overly impressed, but I also don't remember being annoyed either, I guess the story was reasonably engaging, and it actually wasn't that hard watching Liv Tyler.


I also love going to IMDB and doing a 'Technical Spec' search under 'camera' for the AG-DVX100

http://www.imdb.com/SearchTechnical?CAM:Panasonic AG-DVX100

"Search aborted at 200 matches"


so, there's a LOT of stuff filmed with it, now finding the "good" stuff, that's hopefully where we all come in, track it down, see it, and report back!
 
libneon said:
What other movies has the DVX been used for that are worth seeing? At least, movies I might be able to find at a local video store or something...
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If you live near a Movie Gallery check out some of those Sugar Creek Gang flicks. They were shot on DVX. I hear they're pretty slick. :grin:

;)
 
Owen said:
If you live near a Movie Gallery check out some of those Sugar Creek Gang flicks. They were shot on DVX. I hear they're pretty slick. :grin:

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Hey, I'll vouch for that, Owen! I just saw The Sugar Creek Gang: Swamp Robber, and it was an awesome DVD....great movie, great camera work (nice crane and dolly shots, including the one crane AND dolly shot, per excellent commentaries), fun story, uhhh...already mentioned the commentaries, cool Making Of...nice job all around, and in my opinion, well worth seeing. Shot with Ana adapter I noticed.
 
Shawn Murphy said:
Not that this sounds exciting, but it sounds like it's a little more than voice over commentary, re:

"Interview Lew Baldwin Composer/Visual Effects "

please let us know if it's at all interesting, otherwise, I've already seen the film on the big screen. thx.
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Composer AND VFX? I don't remember any FX... unless the slide project shots count when they walk in front of the screen during classes...
 
Owen said:
...unless the slide project shots count when they walk in front of the screen during classes...
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yeah, I'm curious what their definition of "effects" is too, maybe they define color correction as an effect, I guess technically speaking it is, but I think it's a stretch to call it out as such! ;-)
 
Here

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yes indeed.. the name of the game in November was timing... Alot of stuff done in camera, and alot of stuff done in post.

Nancy was with me in LA doing some camera tests with the HVX during dvexpo.. If i can find a reason too I will try and post it.
 
vitaluminosa said:
I just finished watching it - it was pretty good, even though for some reason there was profuse pixelation during the developing room scenes.

The story was kind of cliched, yeah, but I thought they did an okay job because nowadays practically everything in the thriller genre has been used up.

I liked how it was presented in the style of "Memento" and "Groundhog Day"... :)
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hey man, it was pixelated in the developing room because red is a very crappy color for miniDV and film alike. it doesn't look well at all, hence the artifacting all over the place in the scene.


as for the bumping from the apt. above, it was more a purpose for us to focus on the fallen picture. if the person in the upstairs apt. didn't pound on the floor, then the picture on the wall wouldn't have fallen.

i watched the commentary with nancy schreiber and it was incredibly informative. she and greg harrison did a lot of tests to see what looked good and what didn't.

the blue section of the film or 'denial', was done all in post. both nancy and greg explained that it took forever to find the right color to do in post and she stressed that doing all color stuff IN CAMERA was much better than doing it in post.
 
The one thing I noticed immediately on the DVD, that I thought was odd, was the motion artifacts, bluring - like when they do a 60i filmout. Also a lot of noise in general, though I know the CC played a part in that. Wonder if their post workflow played a role in that.
 
Questions: They transferred this movie to 35mm for theatrical release right? Well, did they transfer THIS 35mm print BACK onto DVD for the DVD release? Or did they just transfer the original DV footage to DVD?

This movie was pretty good. And I thought it looked great. But these people need to work on their marketing. I mean if *I'm* posting on the biggest DVX site in the world that November just came out on video, what the hell are they doing?
 
In the director's commentary (over the rear title crawl) he explains their workflow from production through post. They output to Digibeta and uprezzed to HD for final CC. The DVD was pulled from this master - same master that was output to negative for the 35mm prints.
 
Preston, you beat me to the answer....


I was going to say that Digibeta probably made it lose some resolution before uprezzing to HD. I would think HD has better resolution than digibeta.
 
I thought it looked good. I thought the film was really good too (need to watch it again though) and I dug the style of the whole piece and the setup on the 3 chapters...

Update: Will also add that I listened to the director and Nancy's commentary today. VERY helpful. They explain their entire workflow during the end credits as well...
 
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