last night a local filmmaker showed his first cut (it was shot with a GL2). now there were three productions shown. one that i've worked on (with a DVX) and then a short by another filmmaker (don't know what that was shot with) and then the feature.
in all honesty the stuff we shot looked pretty good. granted it was off a DVD that was hooked up to the christie projector, but it looked pretty good. ah but here's something that looked questionable...all 3 were a bit soft. i'm going to presume that's the blowup to the big screen.
but what really made ours look better was the lighting. the short was all natural. at least that's the way it looked. room lights or outside daylight. no key, fill, back just whatever light was there. so the contrast was off plus i think it was a 1CCD camera...the feature shot with the GL2 the director said during the intro that he knew the scenes he lit were bad, but even the ones that were done by somebody else didn't look like they were set up right. so again contrast was off...
ours in no way was perfect, but and this is for those who might think otherwise...LIGHT your scene and your actors properly. trust me it will produce better coloring and have more impact...
okay back to the message at hand...should we increase the sharpness a tad to offset the softness caused by the blowup or leave it as is??? i've worked with 8mm and seeing the DVX on the screen did look somewhat like film maybe 16mm, but overall it was nice seeing it on the big screen.
in all honesty the stuff we shot looked pretty good. granted it was off a DVD that was hooked up to the christie projector, but it looked pretty good. ah but here's something that looked questionable...all 3 were a bit soft. i'm going to presume that's the blowup to the big screen.
but what really made ours look better was the lighting. the short was all natural. at least that's the way it looked. room lights or outside daylight. no key, fill, back just whatever light was there. so the contrast was off plus i think it was a 1CCD camera...the feature shot with the GL2 the director said during the intro that he knew the scenes he lit were bad, but even the ones that were done by somebody else didn't look like they were set up right. so again contrast was off...
ours in no way was perfect, but and this is for those who might think otherwise...LIGHT your scene and your actors properly. trust me it will produce better coloring and have more impact...
okay back to the message at hand...should we increase the sharpness a tad to offset the softness caused by the blowup or leave it as is??? i've worked with 8mm and seeing the DVX on the screen did look somewhat like film maybe 16mm, but overall it was nice seeing it on the big screen.