The Kitchen Test

[The Evil General]

I'm shooting a TV show for Greek TV here in New York and recently was in the position to make a choice over HVX+M2 or plain old vanilla HVX. We have a full crew and new production company so we can support the work load of lighting for film (as you should for the HVX+M2 combo).

Long story short, we chose vanilla HVX, cause we can get a page or two more per day done ( we need 5-7 pages a day to get 2 episodes down a month).

This has nothing to do with the show, but it's the test footage we shot at one of the locations (testing kitchen lighting) that we edited together that I thought I should share cause it's kinda funny.

I mean, it was test footage with some talent that were just doing some typical kitchen blocking but it ended up kinda telling a weird homo erotic story when we edited in a linear way. I wouldn't call it a short, but hey, footage is footage.

http://www.ikseniproductions.com/666/test.wmv

 

[mikecentola]

downloading, but 108meg....wow!

edit: watched it....i am so confused! good shots though

 

[Christopher Barry]

.....it ended up kinda telling a weird homo erotic story when we edited in a linear way

Dammit, Donnie. Why you gotta get all smart on us?

Sure was a cool and funny clip, in context to your reference and the music added that Darko twist. :thumbsup:

 

[Mark Harris]

It's pretty funny. You should definitely enter this into DRAMAFEST.

Would you mind talking about how you lit the kitchen?

 

[The Evil General]

Well, lighting lingo I know only so much of, just enough to tell the DP and Gaffer what it should look like.

That setup though wasn't that complicated, and in general we have all the practicals on 100-150w bulbs with dimmers and then had a light outside the window with some blue gels and another above by the kitchen cabinets (specifics I don't know ). At the end though it's a matter of sculpting the lights to get interesting shadows and gradients on the walls.

If we were shooting with the M2 it would take way more power and time to setup, not to mention that it would be a ***** when we use the steadicam in these small places.

Thanks for finding that cut amusing, usually test footage isn't all that exciting. I'm just happy that shooting plain vanilla ( no M2) can work pretty nicely too, as long as composition and lighting are taken care of.

 

[Shibuya Oboya]

I don't think I have seen HVX footage look this good in a... (let's see if this makes sense) proper set up. Not really sure how to explain what I'm thinking, so I'll just say Good Job, Looks Great.