Short HVX Reel

nope - with the exception of the first car shot - everything is straight from the hvx and the images are purely shooting techniques and camera settings.

Thanks for the comments guys! I appreciate it!
 
Aram Bauman said:
What compression are you using? It looks nice and cripsy.
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It's semi-secret proprietary stuff! Thats why it looks so good. I'm contratually not allowed to say. It's one of those silly things where its not like its really complicated or supersecret and you could easily figure it out on your own - I would just get into trouble work wise if I posted here - especially using my real name!

sorry!
 
Again great stuff, what lighting did you use for the night stuff? And did you just use standard settings, I have actually had some problems with low light maybe it's the settings or my cam.
 
Nathan Beaman said:
It's semi-secret proprietary stuff! Thats why it looks so good. I'm contratually not allowed to say. It's one of those silly things where its not like its really complicated or supersecret and you could easily figure it out on your own - I would just get into trouble work wise if I posted here - especially using my real name!

sorry!
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So is that why I can never get anything to look like the QT trailers do? If they can't show us how to make it that nice then why offer at all? I mean, everyone compresses with quicktime anyways. PS theres always PM! ;)
 
HappyGobo said:
Great stuff. Loved the helicopter shots. Did you use a smoothcam filter on any of them?
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nope all handheld!
Though it would be interesting to try the smooth cam filter. Though it would take forever to analyze!
 
MOVIE STUNTS said:
Again great stuff, what lighting did you use for the night stuff? And did you just use standard settings, I have actually had some problems with low light maybe it's the settings or my cam.
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Lighting for the lights stuff varies. Lots of tungsten heads and kinos. Some larger elements - mostly 5k and under.

Lots of people report issues with low light filming situations. The trick is to just make sure that something is lit and that there is contrast. As long as something in the frame is properly exposed you'll see a dramtic improvement in the overall image. I usually use Cinelike V and drop the master Ped to -5. It helps keep the blacks nice and silky smooth with no artifacting.

Here's a link to a B&W Short I just shot on the HVX - lots of Dark Contrasty stuff with little to no artifacting.

http://www.urbanrhinovisual.com/presents/fisher/index.html
 
Very expressive. And I don't think I've seen better tonal range than that!

I notice many of these same shots are in your reel, in color. Do you simply prefer them that way, or was the decision to go to black and white made after the fact? Or, is it just a commercial concern, since it is your reel, after all?
 
dougspice said:
Very expressive. And I don't think I've seen better tonal range than that!

I notice many of these same shots are in your reel, in color. Do you simply prefer them that way, or was the decision to go to black and white made after the fact? Or, is it just a commercial concern, since it is your reel, after all?
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It's kind of a spit between preference and commercial concern. The director intended for the film to be black and white from the start and so it was lit as a black and white film - for contrast. There are a couple shots from this I would love to include in my reel but cannot use in color for several reasons. We used alot of colored grads because they seemed to give a softer, less visible grade. Also at times we were forced to mix tungsten and daylight heads which would throw the color balance of the shot off. The images still look grade but the emphasis was not put on the color.
 
[SIZE=+0]Great comp... great eye for real cinematic shots... i'm sure you're more than capable of making even SD footage look great. where did you learn your lighting methods??[/SIZE]
 
mindzeye said:
[SIZE=+0]Great comp... great eye for real cinematic shots... i'm sure you're more than capable of making even SD footage look great. where did you learn your lighting methods??[/SIZE]
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Thanks!
I actually learned alot just from watching contemporary cinema and reading old books. I'm also an electrician in I.A.T.S.E so that helps! After lighting so many other people's films a natural benefit is that you get better at lighting your own!
 
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