The Iceman - a short by J. Van Auken

You've definitely got the adapter set up well and back focus spot on. The stills look really good. I'm impressed that you got set up so quickly :)
 
ya see, when you wait for something for 6 months, and read about it every day, its like astronaut training. Once you're out in space (on set) you whip through the motions like a trained monkey.
 
I hear ya. I guess the wait was worth it then as you are on track to produce hours and hours of perfect adapter footage :)
 
I'll do anything for a credit (swoons to floor, back of hand across forehead, HVX 60p overcrank fades to black...).

Anyway, enough of the thread diversion :)
 
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I think it's effective here, because it started as an independent project, and only one cut will be sent to dramafest. I also (hopefully) am describing the process and tribulations enough to warrant its own thread.
 
UPDATE 11/28

the second day of major shooting is finally done. It was a struggle to bring everyone back together at the location. time was also a major, major factor (only allowed from 2 till 5). The great news is that all of the interior filming is 100% done. psyched, very psyched. I'm sitting here converting in cineform right now, so i'll be looking at dailies and posting grabs shortly.

All that's left to do is the external scene, and the city montage dealie. then it's editting for a few weeks and we should have ourselves a short. I'm getting hyped because this is the first (major) project i've completed in 9 months that I headed up completely on my own.

got back some mock-ups from the artist doing the cover and poster, and I'm really digging his style. he brought some things out that I really like, and will actually be putting into the film.

I've found the magic of adlib very useful throughout this process. every other line we'd find my writing to be unnatural, or without flow, and the actors smoothed it out nicely. kudos.

Next shoot is friday (everybody here has real jobs), and after that we should be golden.
 
okay, here's a still from the second day. ignore the motion blur, but what are your thoughts on the lighting? Fairly stark, i know, but is it distracting? I'm considering bringing it down a bit more in post.

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I really like it. Is his face at 90 IRE? And what was the raw at? I probably would bring it down a slight bit, to get a little detail back. Looks good, though.:thumbup:
 
I tried as best i could in cam to keep the face at 70%, dunno where it is now. I'm probably going to try to bring the highs down with levels. thanks for the reply.
 
Okay, it's happened, it's finally happened. Principle photography is done. giant relief.

I don't know if I mentioned, but its been a while since I've finished one of my own projects, and I'm feeling better and better about it as the process moves along.

Anyway, with just B roll to do, I've decided to start toying with my look while I wait for Cineform to get back to me about a footy error.

As per your suggestions, here's where I've got things:
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I'm liking it, but depending on how it looks on a crt, i might go more blue (to fit the name/feel)
 
UPDATE 12/10/06

The film is basically dead in the water. Ground to a halt in post because CineForm ate my footage and just decided to stop working and start spitting out garbled footage during converts (if it outputs anything at all) and then, for whatever reason, the codec stopped being compatible with PP2.0, or for any playback at all. This is so effing ridiculous, i can't even talk about it without my blood pressure rising. I've had to lodge 3 formal complaints with the company thus far on this one project; one was answered with "reinstall it," one wasn't answered at all and I had to find a workaround from here, and one hasn't even been looked at yet. The idea that an entire project is killed because of a software blunder after all this work is unbelievable, what's worse is that I paid $200 for it. That's one expensive headache.
 
while dealing with the death of my film at the hands of a workflow flub,
I recieved the final version of our poster from the artist I had mentioned.
It's too damn bad there isn't the film to back it up,
but he did some really great work with minimal direction from me.
Anyway, his name is Galen Higgins. PM me if you want his info.

may I present the cover for IceMan:


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Shot on HVX, so no original tapes, but the MXF files are fine (i think), it's just that apparently cineform can't handle MXF's over 3 gigs. so much for long takes.
 
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