Outside the Ring - Shot on the Samsung NX1

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Darktide Media

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Just got down shooting this with the Samsung NX1 and Contax Zeiss lens. Produced by Warcry Media House

Thoughts on it would be great.

 
The fighter's skin tone gets a lot redder on some of the action shots - it could just be blood moving though his face, or different location lights, but it kinda looked like a mismatching white balance kind of thing. It was just a little distracting.
Other than that I thought it looked great. Nice edit.
 
Nice job. I would do a couple things. First, as mentioned already, the shots could be matched pretty easily for skin tones, probably with a color curves to bring up the reds in the interviews. I personally would use RGB curves to brighten up the mids and crush the blacks a little - it's a dramatic piece and could benefit from a punchy look.
I also would tighten up the editing a bit - it runs over 4 minutes now, and could (and should, imo) run closer to 3:30. This could be achieved by pulling some of the interview dialogue (lot of ums and ahs in there) while on the cutaways. There are also cutaways that run a second or two too long...
All just my opinion, but since you're looking for feedback...

I love the NX1 btw. Such great colors and skin tones, coming from Lumix GH3s and GH4s, which always have a greenish cast to my eye.
 
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Thank You for your feedback. The look to me was not suppose to be punchy I think that is so over used for fighting. I want a certain look and I think we got that but yes the reds are a bit over the top even for me but we had to get the edit out so next time I will fix what I can.
 
It looks great. Regarding the skin tones, both options seem kind of OK to me (though I like the interview one better), the problem is cutting from one to the other, it does get a bit distracting. It could be solved in post (I would use Colorista for this kind of thing), but it's not a huge deal anyway.
 
On my monitor (calibrated HP ZR24w, PC watching in 4k) the gamma looks a bit washed out. Colors are not over saturated, maybe a bit under. The reds are not over the top and the interview is a bit overexposed and sickly looking on the window side of his face.

Sucks to have such limited time to do our work! Just a single reflector on the fill side opposite the window would have allowed you to lower the exposure on his face a bit.
 
How much of the black level/gamma boost comes from YouTube re-encoding the video? I noticed a big improvement going from default resolution to 720p, but there were still a bunch of shots that looked like the darkest thing was somewhere in the 20 to 40 ire range (yes I'm a long time video guy). Obviously part of this could be my display, I watched it on a fairly cheap android tablet.


On to the camera... How are you finding things like moire/aliasing in the different resolutions and frame rates? Are you finding more of a problem with certain lenses and less with other lenses? What did you do to get good audio, was it direct into the camera or external recorder synced in post?
 
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