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Flares like these are created inside the vegas project.
You start with a simple square, you apply some gaussian filter, color correction, and multiply the layer. Hard to explain, easy to do once you know how. You have to track the image also.

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I am obssesed with flares this year.

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Blue ones from interior.

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Red ones for the exterior. In this case the flare allready existed but it was enhanced. The flares helped to lighten up a bit their kiss, otherwise it would be in backlight and we would have seen less.
 
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About the room, I guess I unterstand now. Being a white room is what provides such a beatiful uniform light. As you said before, you pointed the 2 x 1000w to the ceiling and the white walls and sheets made the rest of the job.

other good example of beautiful flares: http://www.bubble-squeak.com/site03/mo_dealership.html (I think you guys know it, but I´ll remember anyway)

Thanks for the info, macgregor!
 
macgregor said:
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I usually do not show raw images...
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Wow. That even makes the finished work that much more impressive. You (that's the universal you) go out, shoot a movie and bring it to life in post.
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gumonstro said:
About the room, I guess I unterstand now. Being a white room is what provides such a beatiful uniform light. As you said before, you pointed the 2 x 1000w to the ceiling and the white walls and sheets made the rest of the job.

other good example of beautiful flares: http://www.bubble-squeak.com/site03/mo_dealership.html (I think you guys know it, but I´ll remember anyway)

Thanks for the info, macgregor!
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Mmm, not really, if you have a completely white environmente, for some reason, faces end dark always, so you have to tweak the light and create a source light, which was the x2 1000W coming from one of the walls.
My first shortfilm was done in a compeletely white room and ended not as good as i wanted becasue this fact.

Here i leave you some more missing scenes that did not make the final cut. Lots of flares, too.

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Quite a futuristic room.

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Sony VAIO product placement, lol.


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Wonderfull post processed eyes...
 
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Hey macgregor, if you don't mind me asking...(forgive me if it's been covered)

Do you change your detail settings in the DVX based on the scene your shooting or do you have a default setting you like to keep it on?


And I'd like you to know that, for me, each time I watch this, it inspires in me an urge to go out and try making something equally as beautiful. I think that is Similo's greatest strength and is one of the highest compliments I can give any film.
 
Kaz, the same happens to me.
Each time I watch SIMILO, I have 3 thoughts:
- I wish I had took care for details in my short
- I have to try and do something like that one of these days
- I have sooo much to learn...

I guess we all have the inner feeling that we are able to achieve a result at least near to SIMILO but... then I watch my footage and I know there's still something that I'm missing. SIMILO looks Pro and mine looks amateur. Maybe next one...

Pablo
 
Yeah i was wondering about the location too. It looks like a real place and I thought who the hell wants to sit in all that white all the time. Looks cool for a few minutes in a short but living in it? HELL NOOOOOO!!!

I think thats cool that you posted the raw and the curves you use.
Thats one of my secrets to getting what im after also and if you guys(DVXusers) noticed...the raw image is shot with low contrast and looks milky but this is key to extracting nice colors out of the raw. I do the same and it gives you more room to work with when using curves and contrast.
Usually starting with a simple S curve in the tangents will do wonders. Just have to make sure not to go overboard or else it starts to look muddy.
One raw I would like to see is in the white room. Im trying to imagine it and then imagine it in post but the skin detail is throwing me.
 
I like the script, before we know that he is a machine, she says those keywords :
did not erase everything
made for me
never failed me
by my side = It took a while to really catch the feeling of that one : "Her pet".

Just ennuf to not know he is a machine, but ennuf to make a reference once we discover.

I loved your work. I can only wish to see the full-res output.
 
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Aram Bauman said:
Yeah i was wondering about the location too. It looks like a real place and I thought who the hell wants to sit in all that white all the time. Looks cool for a few minutes in a short but living in it? HELL NOOOOOO!!!
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I going to tell you a secret... I spent one night in that location with my girlfriend... It was a really very bad experience... several reasons:
1. All the room was built with smooth surfaces. No cornes. It was something like a cave.
2. White. All white. Pretty colour for few hours. But at the end you lose the orientation.
1+2= Because all was white and the light was everywhere (no shadows), one couldn’t see where a wall was, a “curve corner” or a low roof. That night I banged my head everywhere. A dark cave where you can’t see anything is so dangerous as a white room like that...
3. The furnitures. The same thing as the room. Smooth and curved furnitures. When you put something over a table, for example, that thing fell to the floor. And it happen too when you sat on a chair...

Note: sorry if my english is not very good.
 
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mochouinard said:
I like the script, before we know that he is a machine, she says those keywords :
did not erase everything
made for me
never failed me
by my side = It took a while to really catch the feeling of that one : "Her pet".
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Yeah! There are a lot of girls in the world that think her boyfriend is a pet. We always had in mind this...
 
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Hey macgregor, if you don't mind me asking...(forgive me if it's been covered)

Do you change your detail settings in the DVX based on the scene your shooting or do you have a default setting you like to keep it on?
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Definataly, each scene has its own settings. Usually two stored settings in F5 and F6 dial (F6 for progresive and F5 for interlaced).
 
zacharias said:
Smooth and curved furnitures. When you put something over a table, for example, that thing fell to the floor. And it happen too when you sat on a chair...
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I remember placing the nikon lenses when i was swapping them in the G35, and after leaving them on the "table" i watched how it slowly started to slide and fall. Then you go, pick up the lense from the floor, and place it in the "table" again. But it slowly slides down again.

;]
 
Mac, just wanted to say 'thanks' for paying attention to the posts here on the forum. The how-to's of your film are very interesting to read, not because every DVX'r is gonna go out and steal your methods, but because it helps to see that it takes thought and vision to produce something like this. I can tell that you had some ideas of how you wanted this to look when finished, and you thought through and executed the steps to make that happen. It's just a little different from the 'guerilla style' of production that so many of us are used to.
 
Exactly! This is why I hate getting hired to shoot "guerilla style" lol. I hope other indie directors are watching this! :mad: :)
 
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It's just a little different from the 'guerilla style' of production that so many of us are used to.
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Well, i dont know if that is good or bad. I assure you shot without crew or expensive equipment. No matte boxes, no sound, no tripods, almost no nothing. I had never worked this way before, i think it was my first guerilla style work. ;]
 
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