Short film I shot with F3 and RED 18-50mm

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FilmDude

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Just some clips I put together from a short film I was the DP on this past week.

Lighting used: Arri 650's, 800 open faces, Mole 150

Camera: Sony F3, non-s-log, SxS

Lens: Red 18-50mm, Lomo 80mm



Any "noise" you see came from compression, I dont have that in my raw footage, but oh well, thats what 3rd time generation with compression on vimeo will do haha.
 
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Thanks a bunch, the scene file was Technicolors Wide cine gamma, and on a few shots in my own variation of a cine wide gamma as well. I had to constantly knock down my lights with nets/scrims because the F3 was so good in low light, I should have had 300's and 150's and would have been fine I think. The 800's were so powerful I only could use them with softboxes and 3x nets to get it to match exposure with practicals.

I love lighting with practicals and tried to do that a lot in the film as well.
 
jambredz said:
looks great. also great to see this from non s -log
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Yeah a lot of people go crazy over the whole S-Log rush, honestly I do love S-Log, but I see is as kind of a way for people to use it as a crutch for some things. If you light dynamically and expose properly you are already most of the way there. This was also 99% Interior shots, so I had full control over my lighting. If I had ext. then that might have been a call for S-log.



bill totolo said:
Where can I find that scene file, no luck after a quick Google search.
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http://blog.abelcine.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/5DM2_TEC.zip

There ya go, from ablecine I think you can download them all in one shot, but this is the specific one I used on most of the shoot.


Also I note that everything was Tungsten balanced but played with color temp a few times to get a slightly warmer feel. I'd dial it up a bit towards the warm or cooler side depending on what I was shooting. Doctor scene was at 4000k while I believe I cooled it down a bit in the dark classroom scenes, but dont remember what temp.
 
bill totolo said:
Did you do any tests against AB_Range?
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Actually I think I switched it to Range at one point for a scene that just wasn't feeling right with the lighting I had, It had a little bit more color in the frame I believe. But I think I only used that scene file once on the shoot, and it was for only a few shots. Sometimes I'd light a scene and just not be happy with it tone wise, but before I change the lighting, I change my scene files to see if anything might just make that little difference to make up for whatever was missing. Thats what did it at that time I believe.

Most of the time I have 2 lighting setups: the first one I spend a lot of time on, and the second one is my "backup idea".

There was a bedroom scene and we took about 25 min to light this small room, second I looked at it with the standins I hated it. We had these wall sconces in the room, but they had florescent bulbs in them so we had turned them off. After not liking my original setup I said screw all these lights, I sent the gaffer to get some 25w incandescent bulbs from the corner store, worked WAY better and felt much more natural. I like to play with things on set, the people that turn it into a science I just dont understand sometimes. If it doesn't feel right, just play around a bit, make it feel right. So yeah I did use the AB_Range and it helped on a shot. But overall I like the Technicolor flat look the best. I find its the most pleasing to my eye, and really protects me in post.
 
Erik Naso said:
Nice. Very cinematic indeed.
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Thanks alot, saw you were going to rent the F3, you can't go wrong with it, my advice is not to put the gain up passed 6db if you want really clean image. But also dont use -3 db either, you're just clipping your highlights then. 0 - 6db is pretty good and clean in a non-s-log mode.

Enjoy working with it!
 
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