Official Trailer "OF SAINTS AND OUTLAWS" shot on 2 FS700's | British Columbia

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ashclever

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Official Trailer "OF SAINTS AND OUTLAWS" shot on 2 FS700's | British Columbia

I completed editing this movie 2 days ago! We began shooting it a year and half ago. The entire film was shot with 2 FS700's. I mostly film/edit Commercial work and Music videos so this was the longest and biggest single project I have had the opportunity to tackle. It took 3 Editing stints mixed with 20 + other vids I made this last year for clients. The movie is my dad's directorial debut using a script he wrote off of a novel he wrote. He and I were the only camera operators for the entire shoot and he also acted in it as well. My role was A-Camera during the first half of the movies filming I was able to travel to BC for (I live in Florida), all editing, and color grading.

A period piece done on an Indy budget with limited means but we somehow pulled it off and makes me proud to have helped make my dads 10 year vision come to life.

http://vimeo.com/96359743



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Very nice work! I love to hear about people getting their passion projects done :)

Which one is your dad in the trailer? :)

I especially like the way you've done little snippets in somewhat desaturated and heavily graded. I can't describe it correctly but it reminds me a bit of comic book / sincity / 300. It adds some good energy to the dialog in the trailer. Can I ask your technique in edit for those bits ?
 
I'm writing this before even viewing the piece. I had to comment on the fact you and your dad were able to work together on a film. That's awesome!! I would love the opportunity to work with my dad if he were into artistic crafts. I worked for my dad as a young man when he owned a painting company on Cape Cod growing up, and it was one of the happiest times of my life. Of course there's always stress with working with family, but it's time well spent and time that should be cherished. I'm happy for you and the time you were able to spend with your father. Now I'm going to watch;-)
 
Pretty awesome, I found the grade to be somewhat distracting, I would of been able to enjoy the dialogue a bit more with maybe two distinct grades throughout, I think it would pull the piece together as it now reminds me of stock footage that would need to be graded to match the film up and give it a look. I do like how it was shot, nice angles, decent acting, great locations and wardrobe, it's the vast amount of different looks that bugs me for some reason, however that's just me, and as we know it's a very subjective subject. But I guess I felt an honest opinion would be more helpful than not.
 
Thanks for the feedback guys! Timmy, the muscled up fellow with the long hair is my pop. He actually won the masters class bodybuilding show a couple of years ago for British Columbia at age 56! It really was great to be able to accomplish such a large undertaking with my dad and yes....at times, decision making can conflict in a different way with family than with friends or co-workers. LOL

As far as the grading, yep, it is pretty intense at times!!!HA. I could definitely understand how you would either really like it, or simply not care for it. The way it is used in the movie as a whole, is primarily for flash back sequences where either the narrator of the film is telling the backstory of characters, or when a character them self is giving their account of a story. Then the more normal grading is used for what is happening at the moment when dialogue is being exchanged....rather than narrated across the top of scenes. That was really the only way I felt comfortable using such extremely different grading plans.

As far as how to achieve that look Timmy, it is a tad complicated to explain. I will say I did all the grading with RED GIANTS COLOR SUITE. The advice I would offer in that department if you want to get a crazy extreme look like that is, don't limit yourself to one instance of Looks and one instance of Colorista. You really have to pile on multiple instances of those tools to get it going that far and the process is pretty different every time depending on exposure levels and white balance of the shots. Messing around a lot with DENSITY in multiple passes is a good starting point.
 
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