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wardanthony

wardanthony

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i always thought a crane out of a pickup would look real cool. especially if the car you are shooting gets next to the pickup and you follow overhead out the side of the truck. maybe it is too hard i dont know. got any photos of your whole truck/crane/camera set up??
 
Steven Bogda said:
i always thought a crane out of a pickup would look real cool. especially if the car you are shooting gets next to the pickup and you follow overhead out the side of the truck. maybe it is too hard i dont know. got any photos of your whole truck/crane/camera set up??
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i'll have the pics of our jib set up by tomorrow. do you mean like having the jib arm swing out to get next to the car? if so, that can be a bit tricky considering that the wind will probably be blowing hard (depending on your speed of course) and it must be parallel with the car when you are accelerating and breaking because it'll but a rediculous amount of stress on the jib body and legs that it wasn't designed for, and it could potentially break the jib. we were traveling at 25mph on the average, after we warmed up from a speed of 10mph. i don't know if i answered your question but let me know if you mean something else.
 
hey guys sorry i haven't posted up any of the production stills, i've been so busy lately since its the end of the semester and my finals are killing me

i will post up some of those stills when i get them from my friend,but for now, here is a cut of the opening scene of my new film

http://vimeo.com/954702

lemme know the good, the bad, and the ugly about it
 
not bad, 2 suggestions i have

I know it must be balls hard to frame up a shot on a moving pick up, but the beginning shot seemed like it was a bit off. dunno if it was intentional.

2nd, in the end the way it pans up and goes out of focus could have been a little smoother.

other than that i liked it, especially the wide shot, it had good composition.
 
thanks man, can you elaborate on what you thought was off? we shot it at a slight dutch angle on purpose and those shakes you see when the jib rises is undoubtedly from the wind. i heard that i can smooth it out in final cut with the smooth cam filter, ive just never used it though so i have no clue on its effectiveness. (I just know that it has to crop the image to stabilize the frame and im kind of iffy on that). i dunno, lemme know your thoughts on all that..
 
Oh and i forgot to mention the end. yeah i totally agree on that too. once i cut my second scene, its supposed to fade together smoothly. Im using the camera tilt as a transitional device into the next scene/location, which will be an alleyway. the fade goes from the end of the scene you just watched into white fog, then the camera dollies back, deeper into the alleyway, and then we see the car slowly drift through the alley to a hault. I'll post that up as soon as i shoot some pick-up shots, get the footage together and cut.
 
something about the composition. maybe i think its off bc of its relation to the last scene with the wide angle, that shot is framed right, where the first on isn't, what were you trying to say with it being off angle in comparison to the rest of it? maybe thats or it could be the shakiness. through the stride of the jib movement off. If its on purpose and there's a reason for it i see no problem with it other than the wind thing.

and you got balls putting a camera on a jib thats on a moving pick up, just to get a shot you want, I respect it, but wow. I couldn't do that, i'd sooner risk my own life.
 
can't wait to see the pics of your rig as i'm planing on doing the same thing for my flik as well. i would imagine you'd be better off framing it a bit wider to compensate for the steady shot fcp thing. i'll be doing some tests as soon as i get my rig built.
i love that over the shoulder shot, got one like it my flick as well. i'm startin to feel a bit like a copy-cat ;)
thanks
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well i wanted to slowly reveal the character/setting/situation with by starting with tight shots, to wider shots. i didn't reveal the characters facial identity completely so that i can stretch it out into the next scene. The film is about a man running from his past and his reluctance to make change for the better. i'm sort of showing pieces of a cinematic "puzzle" so that the audience can piece them together, if that makes any sense. i'm always terrible with explaining things through a computer haha

yeah the wind thing bothers me a bit but i don't think i will resort to cropping it for the steadiness, the shot is too tight and the sacrifice of image will be too great.

haha thanks, i just knew i wanted that shot so badly so i insisted on putting my cam on the jib after a good amount of people told me it sounded like a bad idea. i must say though, if you take the time to rachet-tie the tripod legs down in a super secure position, and have some sandbags handy (or free-weights in a duffel bag, as we did), those legs are staying down. thats half the battle, the other half is making sure we accelerate and brake slowly. oh yes, and WIND hahaha

i also guess that it helps that i trust my crew with my life (my dvx haha)
 
hey lowercase, pics of the rig will definitely be up friday night. yeah if i could do the first shot over, i would've framed it a bit wider to compensate for the smooth cam filter cropping, so im sure you'll keep that in mind for when you try it out. just remember also, accelerate and brake slowly and smoothly, or else... i wouldnt even want to talk about what could happen:/

thank you, no worries , i'd love to see the footage when you get a cut together
 
I understand what you're going for, and well thought out. I liked it. any shots of tires as a drive, or too cliche?
 
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