Rezfactor--"Runway" [working title] Production Notes Thread
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Brandon Rice
Distributed Producer
Congrats man, looking forward to your flick!
Ralph Oshiro
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More stills . . .
02 OCTOBER UPDATE 1.0: PRODUCTION STILLS FROM SEPT. 30 SHOOT
Check out my poor man's daylight KinoFlo lighting set-up! It's one of those desk lamps that use those consumer "daylight" flourescent bulbs. They work GREAT! I used one to supplement the natural daylight coming through the windows to fill her face on the bed. And there's also two in the bathroom (one desk lamp and one screw-in daylight flourescent bulb into the standard above-mirror bath fixture). Of course, there's lots more production stills that I'm dying to post, but I'm holding back until after the viewing is over!
02 OCTOBER UPDATE 1.0: PRODUCTION STILLS FROM SEPT. 30 SHOOT
Check out my poor man's daylight KinoFlo lighting set-up! It's one of those desk lamps that use those consumer "daylight" flourescent bulbs. They work GREAT! I used one to supplement the natural daylight coming through the windows to fill her face on the bed. And there's also two in the bathroom (one desk lamp and one screw-in daylight flourescent bulb into the standard above-mirror bath fixture). Of course, there's lots more production stills that I'm dying to post, but I'm holding back until after the viewing is over!
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Ralph Oshiro
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Actual grabs . . .
02 OCTOBER UPDATE 1.1: FRAME GRABS
Uncorrected Sony DSR450 DVCAM image; white balance: daylight, manual.
So here's an actual frame grab (uncorrected) straight outta my DSR450 DVCAM camera. This grab shows what the camera photographed using the exact lighting set-up shown above, using the daylight desk lamp. If you're ONLY lighting with these, and you white balance to them as the sole source, they photograph pure white. Here, you see it's casting a slight yellow-green tint, when compared to the natural daylight bouncing into the room. I also placed the lamp in a less-than-desirable key position (under the chin), only because I was emulating the position of the motivated source.
Uncorrected Sony DSR450 DVCAM image; white balance: daylight, manual.
This is a frame grab without the fill. Again, both grabs are uncorrected, straight out of the camera. I decided to go without the fill, mainly because it was burning up the white pillow under her head, and I was too lazy to make a cutter.
02 OCTOBER UPDATE 1.1: FRAME GRABS
Uncorrected Sony DSR450 DVCAM image; white balance: daylight, manual.
So here's an actual frame grab (uncorrected) straight outta my DSR450 DVCAM camera. This grab shows what the camera photographed using the exact lighting set-up shown above, using the daylight desk lamp. If you're ONLY lighting with these, and you white balance to them as the sole source, they photograph pure white. Here, you see it's casting a slight yellow-green tint, when compared to the natural daylight bouncing into the room. I also placed the lamp in a less-than-desirable key position (under the chin), only because I was emulating the position of the motivated source.
Uncorrected Sony DSR450 DVCAM image; white balance: daylight, manual.
This is a frame grab without the fill. Again, both grabs are uncorrected, straight out of the camera. I decided to go without the fill, mainly because it was burning up the white pillow under her head, and I was too lazy to make a cutter.
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jpbankesmercer
Director Mod
Rez, it always amazes me how you get some many hot chickcs in your flicks!
I mean ALWAYS, really always. Hot chicks everywhere...always
I mean ALWAYS, really always. Hot chicks everywhere...always
Ralph Oshiro
Veteran
Whew . . .
04:29AM 02 OCTOBER UPDATE 1.3: FINISHED
THANK GOD! Everything went well (I think) with my final edit, except for a typo in the credits that I didn't catch until hours after I had already encoded, zipped, and uploaded. I was truly surprised that I actually finished everything and began my upload by 10:30PM Sunday night (except for the second upload to correct the credits at 03:00AM--sorry for wasting all that bandwidth).
Not counting picking up stock shots on various weekends, I really only had three short shooting days. The entire short was completely shot in daylight, and my talent never arrived before about 01:00PM on each of three consecutive Saturdays. I had no professional crew members, just my talent and a couple of her friends that came along. My girlfriend was of invaluable assistance, and even thought up a key story idea. And my non-actress star impressed me to no end . . . I think she's a natural. My thanks to everyone here for answering my stupid questions, and for your unending moral support. And without Jarred, I would never have even made this film. Thank you Jarred.
Now, my elation from actually finishing something is quickly fading into a satisfied exhaustion, and now kernels of thoughts for the NEXT project are starting to percolate. I must say, this is the first DVXUSERfest entry that I'm actually proud of. Although a script never actually emerged for, "RUNWAY," there's a story in there somewhere, and the few objective observers that have seen the final cut seemed to have "gotten it." Sure, there are things that I wish were better in it, but I'm generally pretty satisfied with the end product. I hope you enjoy it.
04:29AM 02 OCTOBER UPDATE 1.3: FINISHED
THANK GOD! Everything went well (I think) with my final edit, except for a typo in the credits that I didn't catch until hours after I had already encoded, zipped, and uploaded. I was truly surprised that I actually finished everything and began my upload by 10:30PM Sunday night (except for the second upload to correct the credits at 03:00AM--sorry for wasting all that bandwidth).
Not counting picking up stock shots on various weekends, I really only had three short shooting days. The entire short was completely shot in daylight, and my talent never arrived before about 01:00PM on each of three consecutive Saturdays. I had no professional crew members, just my talent and a couple of her friends that came along. My girlfriend was of invaluable assistance, and even thought up a key story idea. And my non-actress star impressed me to no end . . . I think she's a natural. My thanks to everyone here for answering my stupid questions, and for your unending moral support. And without Jarred, I would never have even made this film. Thank you Jarred.
Now, my elation from actually finishing something is quickly fading into a satisfied exhaustion, and now kernels of thoughts for the NEXT project are starting to percolate. I must say, this is the first DVXUSERfest entry that I'm actually proud of. Although a script never actually emerged for, "RUNWAY," there's a story in there somewhere, and the few objective observers that have seen the final cut seemed to have "gotten it." Sure, there are things that I wish were better in it, but I'm generally pretty satisfied with the end product. I hope you enjoy it.
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TheatreGuy
Veteran
Hey, that's all great news Rezfactor!
Funny, as I sit here watching my files SLOWLY upload I am contemplating what I can shoot next!
I had so much fun making a film!!!
Can't wait to see your film.
It has been really fun watching the progress and the beautiful women!!!
Funny, as I sit here watching my files SLOWLY upload I am contemplating what I can shoot next!
I had so much fun making a film!!!
Can't wait to see your film.
It has been really fun watching the progress and the beautiful women!!!
khmuse
Tech Guru
Great grabs!
Man, seeing your grabs makes me really wish I had gone with my first idea and shot with an SDX instead of the DVX (that damn 1st prize was so tempting). The difference a REAL 2/3" SD camera makes is so obvious and for me, the low light performance would have made my job so much easier. Oh well, too late now.
Congratulations Rez, your film is gonna rock! Can't wait to see it.
PS Great to see the Peds get a bit of screen time too!
Man, seeing your grabs makes me really wish I had gone with my first idea and shot with an SDX instead of the DVX (that damn 1st prize was so tempting). The difference a REAL 2/3" SD camera makes is so obvious and for me, the low light performance would have made my job so much easier. Oh well, too late now.
Congratulations Rez, your film is gonna rock! Can't wait to see it.
PS Great to see the Peds get a bit of screen time too!
Ralph Oshiro
Veteran
Whew, AGAIN . . .
09:10PM 02 OCTOBER UPDATE 1.4: CONVERTED .AC3 UPLOADED/SPECIAL THANKS
SPECIAL THANKS TO:
Edgen, khmuse, Jack Daniel Stanley, FlintMI, VaricamLife, and of course, Barry and Jarred (I'll add more names as I remember)--A GREAT BIG SPECIAL THANK YOU to you all, for all of your expert technical guidance on pixel aspect ratios, encoding, and such. I JUST converted, and uploaded my DVD-audio .wav file to the requisite .ac3 file, using a utility that FlintMI posted a link to, at the last minute, in response to my desparate, way-past-the-last-minute post in the "confirmed uploads" thread. Without all of your help, I would have never made it.
09:10PM 02 OCTOBER UPDATE 1.4: CONVERTED .AC3 UPLOADED/SPECIAL THANKS
SPECIAL THANKS TO:
Edgen, khmuse, Jack Daniel Stanley, FlintMI, VaricamLife, and of course, Barry and Jarred (I'll add more names as I remember)--A GREAT BIG SPECIAL THANK YOU to you all, for all of your expert technical guidance on pixel aspect ratios, encoding, and such. I JUST converted, and uploaded my DVD-audio .wav file to the requisite .ac3 file, using a utility that FlintMI posted a link to, at the last minute, in response to my desparate, way-past-the-last-minute post in the "confirmed uploads" thread. Without all of your help, I would have never made it.
mentatDUKE
Veteran
Congrats! Now we get to see your great looking actress.
Ralph Oshiro
Veteran
More grabs!
03 OCTOBER UPDATE 1.0: CUTTING ROOM FLOOR, PART I
Uncorrected Sony DSR450 frame grab.
Uncorrected Sony DSR450 frame grab with Magic Bullet 'White Diffusion 5.0' plug-in.
Uncorrected Sony DSR450 frame grab with Magic Bullet 'White Diffusion Max' plug-in.
More frame grabs from my DSR450! All grabs have been saved as .jpgs out of Adobe Photoshop at a quality of '8.' This is the "roof" shot that I posted some BTS stills of many pages ago, here and here. I ended up not using any of this footage, so here they are!
03 OCTOBER UPDATE 1.0: CUTTING ROOM FLOOR, PART I
Uncorrected Sony DSR450 frame grab.
Uncorrected Sony DSR450 frame grab with Magic Bullet 'White Diffusion 5.0' plug-in.
Uncorrected Sony DSR450 frame grab with Magic Bullet 'White Diffusion Max' plug-in.
More frame grabs from my DSR450! All grabs have been saved as .jpgs out of Adobe Photoshop at a quality of '8.' This is the "roof" shot that I posted some BTS stills of many pages ago, here and here. I ended up not using any of this footage, so here they are!
Ralph Oshiro
Veteran
More grabs!
03 OCTOBER UPDATE 1.1: CUTTING ROOM FLOOR, CONT'D
Sony DCR-HC1000 16:9 frame grab.
More rejected footage . . . this is a frame grab from my little 3CCD Sony HC1000 camcorder in an Ikelite underwater housing (shown below). It's 60i, but the camera does have a native 16:9 imager. This was heavily color-adjusted. Anyway, for various reasons, I chose not to use any "water" footage. I'll just bank this footage and probably use it for something else later.
For those of you unfamiliar with this, now-discontinued, little camcorder, the Sony DCR-HC1000 has, "3-1/4.7" Advanced HAD (Hole Accumulation Diode) CCD imagers with 690K effective (video) pixels . . . and a horizontal resolution of 530 lines . . . by utilizing more area of the oversized CCD, a 16:9 image is created with a 14% wider angle field of view and 30% more pixels than a standard 4:3 image." The Ikelite housing is now discontinued as well, as I just found out when grabbing this image. It's now only $600. I paid over $1,200 from B+H a little over a year ago!
STAY TUNED FOR MORE "CUTTING ROOM FLOOR" FRAME GRABS AS THE CONTEST CONTINUES . . .
03 OCTOBER UPDATE 1.1: CUTTING ROOM FLOOR, CONT'D
Sony DCR-HC1000 16:9 frame grab.
More rejected footage . . . this is a frame grab from my little 3CCD Sony HC1000 camcorder in an Ikelite underwater housing (shown below). It's 60i, but the camera does have a native 16:9 imager. This was heavily color-adjusted. Anyway, for various reasons, I chose not to use any "water" footage. I'll just bank this footage and probably use it for something else later.
For those of you unfamiliar with this, now-discontinued, little camcorder, the Sony DCR-HC1000 has, "3-1/4.7" Advanced HAD (Hole Accumulation Diode) CCD imagers with 690K effective (video) pixels . . . and a horizontal resolution of 530 lines . . . by utilizing more area of the oversized CCD, a 16:9 image is created with a 14% wider angle field of view and 30% more pixels than a standard 4:3 image." The Ikelite housing is now discontinued as well, as I just found out when grabbing this image. It's now only $600. I paid over $1,200 from B+H a little over a year ago!
STAY TUNED FOR MORE "CUTTING ROOM FLOOR" FRAME GRABS AS THE CONTEST CONTINUES . . .
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TheatreGuy
Veteran
Not using the roof shot??? Well, I hope that yo have something better to replace it with!
You certainly do give a new meaning to the word "grab!"
Congrats on the wrap. Can't wait to see!!! And I do like that last grab at water level. Very nice.
Ted
You certainly do give a new meaning to the word "grab!"
Congrats on the wrap. Can't wait to see!!! And I do like that last grab at water level. Very nice.
Ted
Ralph Oshiro
Veteran
More grabs!
03 OCTOBER UPDATE 1.4: CUTTING ROOM FLOOR, CONT'D
Uncorrected Sony DSR450 frame grab.
Uncorrected Sony DSR450 frame grab.
Uncorrected Sony DSR450 frame grab.
Uncorrected Sony DSR450 frame grab.
More frame grabs from my DSR450! All grabs have been saved as .jpgs out of Adobe Photoshop at a quality of '4' to '6.' Some of these shots are in motion, so some may be a bit soft. I ended up not using any of this footage either.
03 OCTOBER UPDATE 1.4: CUTTING ROOM FLOOR, CONT'D
Uncorrected Sony DSR450 frame grab.
Uncorrected Sony DSR450 frame grab.
Uncorrected Sony DSR450 frame grab.
Uncorrected Sony DSR450 frame grab.
More frame grabs from my DSR450! All grabs have been saved as .jpgs out of Adobe Photoshop at a quality of '4' to '6.' Some of these shots are in motion, so some may be a bit soft. I ended up not using any of this footage either.
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Ralph Oshiro
Veteran
More grabs!
04 OCTOBER UPDATE 1.0: CUTTING ROOM FLOOR, CONT'D
Uncorrected Nikon D70 image.
Here's the "daylight desk lamp" I had mentioned a few pages ago, which I used as the key light for the actress' legs. The "fill" or base light for the room is "off" in this picture, and was created by a screw-in, daylight flourescent bulb (not pictured here) which just blew out.
Uncorrected Sony DSR450 frame grab.
This video frame grab was saved out of Adobe Photoshop at a quality of '7.' Yet still another "rejected" piece of footage (no pun intended), shown here to illustrate the lighting used on "RUNWAY." The "daylight desk lamp" really mimics the quality of a small KinoFlo quite well. The light is soft, and when white balanced to, photographs perfectly white. The base light on the tub was provided by the screw-in bulb. [Note: the purple-ish hue in this .jpg is absent in the video display of this footage.]
04 OCTOBER UPDATE 1.0: CUTTING ROOM FLOOR, CONT'D
Uncorrected Nikon D70 image.
Here's the "daylight desk lamp" I had mentioned a few pages ago, which I used as the key light for the actress' legs. The "fill" or base light for the room is "off" in this picture, and was created by a screw-in, daylight flourescent bulb (not pictured here) which just blew out.
Uncorrected Sony DSR450 frame grab.
This video frame grab was saved out of Adobe Photoshop at a quality of '7.' Yet still another "rejected" piece of footage (no pun intended), shown here to illustrate the lighting used on "RUNWAY." The "daylight desk lamp" really mimics the quality of a small KinoFlo quite well. The light is soft, and when white balanced to, photographs perfectly white. The base light on the tub was provided by the screw-in bulb. [Note: the purple-ish hue in this .jpg is absent in the video display of this footage.]
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