lol desperatecomfort. I never got the orange flag thing. Even more so, I never got all the people telling me what a surreal experience (or other pschyo-babble) they had. I always felt like politely asking them if they were retarded. The monster doll is brilliant but I think in NY, any parent letting their kid ride 20 feet in the air on its arms like that would get arrested.
The little girl giant...
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Chris Messineo
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Wow, really beautiful footage. It was mesmerizing.
Chris
Chris
Antoine_Fabi
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the very best of the best.
Unbelievable !
Unbelievable !
insanityfw
Ban Me Please!
InvisionProductions said:
Ditto.
electricpig
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little girl giant update
little girl giant update
Blimey, I went to bed crossing my fingers after posting the footage, and woke up to find my .mac had been totally swamped, emails from Apple with 75% and Full warnings for bandwidth, and loads of enthusiastic feedback!
I've upgraded my bandwidth, re-saved the file as H.264 (saving space and correcting the slight gamma shift the sorenson gave it).
It's also now on YouTube as a tiny 320x240:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qBXr15K2uSc
& savefile:
http://www.savefile.com/files.php?fid=3129687
Purple; I did nothing apart from film what was unfolding infront of me...
This was laid on for London by the Royal de Luxe French street theatre company:
http://www.thesultanselephant.com/
It spread like wildfire by word of mouth around London. Started off as a crashed rocket in Waterloo Place out from which the little girl climbed before meeting up with the Elephant. For the next few days they played out their life across the City where cars were found trampled on and large things sown to the pavement. They slept next to each other at night at Horseguards Parade where you could hear them both snoring. They met at various points in the weekend including Trafalgar Square, before she climbed back into her rocket and literally disappeared. There was no real coverage by the media apart from the odd article here and there, and snippets at the end of the local news, nothing nationally anyway.
Justin; kind words, thankyou. I was really nervous taking my camera out, having only done stills in public before.
I ran with the f6 Cinegamma setting, and everything on auto, adding/removing the ND's as the camera requested. The autofocus was OK, but slow, and there was always a focus hunt after I rested my arms and then continued (I've just bought a Foxi for my 'Rig to manually focus/iris on the back of this experience). I love my new toy!
I used to shoot my 35mm with a Canon F1n, manual head and spot meter screen and found it an amazingly free way to work. I want to acheive the same with the HVX.
Scrappy; my camera work/composition was what I was most pleased with, so thanks for the compliment. It was a strange experience zooming while keeping the subject central. Always re-composing was good fun while shooting, and gets you so 'inside' the shooting experience that you live in a tunnel for those moments. Very different to stills work.
John_Hudson; sorry for your wife and sons condition. The H.264 re-compress that's up there now should help your levels as the gamma is better. I wasn't happy with the Sorenson. Yes I am on a Mac, though I calibrate to gamma 2.2 instead of 1.8.
desperatecomfort et al; sorry you only got flags. Still would have popped the reds nicely on an HVX though.
kholi; The music was 'Decollage' by Les Balayeurs du Desert. They also followed behind the giant girl on a float, jamming away in the sun. Got very reggai-like at times, very relaxing.
everyone; I'm just pleased my shooting helped you to share something of the amazing experience it was to actually be there. I've got some bits of elephant footage I'll upload too when it's edited and post-ed. The event was so big I wanted to get one complete story out of it all, and I have to admit I fell for the girl...
ho, hum, back to normal life
mike.c
little girl giant update
Blimey, I went to bed crossing my fingers after posting the footage, and woke up to find my .mac had been totally swamped, emails from Apple with 75% and Full warnings for bandwidth, and loads of enthusiastic feedback!
I've upgraded my bandwidth, re-saved the file as H.264 (saving space and correcting the slight gamma shift the sorenson gave it).
It's also now on YouTube as a tiny 320x240:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qBXr15K2uSc
& savefile:
http://www.savefile.com/files.php?fid=3129687
Purple; I did nothing apart from film what was unfolding infront of me...
This was laid on for London by the Royal de Luxe French street theatre company:
http://www.thesultanselephant.com/
It spread like wildfire by word of mouth around London. Started off as a crashed rocket in Waterloo Place out from which the little girl climbed before meeting up with the Elephant. For the next few days they played out their life across the City where cars were found trampled on and large things sown to the pavement. They slept next to each other at night at Horseguards Parade where you could hear them both snoring. They met at various points in the weekend including Trafalgar Square, before she climbed back into her rocket and literally disappeared. There was no real coverage by the media apart from the odd article here and there, and snippets at the end of the local news, nothing nationally anyway.
Justin; kind words, thankyou. I was really nervous taking my camera out, having only done stills in public before.
I ran with the f6 Cinegamma setting, and everything on auto, adding/removing the ND's as the camera requested. The autofocus was OK, but slow, and there was always a focus hunt after I rested my arms and then continued (I've just bought a Foxi for my 'Rig to manually focus/iris on the back of this experience). I love my new toy!
I used to shoot my 35mm with a Canon F1n, manual head and spot meter screen and found it an amazingly free way to work. I want to acheive the same with the HVX.
Scrappy; my camera work/composition was what I was most pleased with, so thanks for the compliment. It was a strange experience zooming while keeping the subject central. Always re-composing was good fun while shooting, and gets you so 'inside' the shooting experience that you live in a tunnel for those moments. Very different to stills work.
John_Hudson; sorry for your wife and sons condition. The H.264 re-compress that's up there now should help your levels as the gamma is better. I wasn't happy with the Sorenson. Yes I am on a Mac, though I calibrate to gamma 2.2 instead of 1.8.
desperatecomfort et al; sorry you only got flags. Still would have popped the reds nicely on an HVX though.
kholi; The music was 'Decollage' by Les Balayeurs du Desert. They also followed behind the giant girl on a float, jamming away in the sun. Got very reggai-like at times, very relaxing.
everyone; I'm just pleased my shooting helped you to share something of the amazing experience it was to actually be there. I've got some bits of elephant footage I'll upload too when it's edited and post-ed. The event was so big I wanted to get one complete story out of it all, and I have to admit I fell for the girl...
ho, hum, back to normal life
mike.c
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Yes the show is great, as always with Royal de Luxe (I 've seen them several times).
But your footage is very nice, the music works, and the thing is very poetic, very sweet..
Technically, the image is quite stabilize... Shake ? Does the Fig Rig can do something like that alone ?
Thank's for sharing.
Fred.
But your footage is very nice, the music works, and the thing is very poetic, very sweet..
Technically, the image is quite stabilize... Shake ? Does the Fig Rig can do something like that alone ?
Thank's for sharing.
Fred.
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Scrappy said:
well the creator of the orange flags himself said, somethign to the effect of, " i had 2 million dollars to do a project, and i figured why not.... it doesnt mean anyhtign its just cool to see flags everyhwere." ( thats the jist of his statement, he spoke at our school)
But there is an idea in art called the "third meaning", and its that "surreal" sensation. Alot of minmal artstuff that people dont like is supposed to invoke that weird surreal feeling, not specifically mean something.
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Steve Strickland
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That was truly amazing. I called my wife in to watch it with me a second time. We were both moved by the realistic movement, soundtrack, and most of all the sense of emotion coming from a forty foot puppet. Thank you for sharing this.
electricpig
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shadows;- I was doing most shooting with a freely held FigRig on relatively locked off shots. I'm 6'5", but I was having to hold my 'Rig with my hands at my head height to get clear shots over the crowd, and in the case of the final shot I had locked arms straight above my head zoomed at wide-angle. All of this was done using the LCD to frame, and trusting the autofocus. I was being nudged most times by the sheer volume of people, and it all gets heavy to hold clear of your body so I was weaving a bit. With the final shots of her being lifted into the chair I had reserved a clear view by 'reading the road' ahead of the crowd a bit, so I was able to lock my arms at my sides and use the viewfinder rather than the LCD with no heads to look over, so I had 3 points of contact to keep things quite rigid, hence very smooth footage.
I then 'camera stabilised' the footage in Shake (very different from locking a shot off around a single point) to make things smoother and to take out the kicks and twitches. On some frames you might see a little 'burring' which is stabilised motion blurred frames. Everything was blown up 5% to refill the frame (otherwise there were black edges appearing where stuff had been stabilised), and Shake FilmGrain added.
I loved the freedom and fluidity the FigRig gave me, and got some envious glances from some guys with ENG cameras tied to huge tripods. I should get commision on atleast 3 sales from that day from people who came up to me! I saw other people photographing and videoing me as I 'drove' my camera, and this just seemed to add to the surrealness of the occasion for some people. One bloke said 'all these guys with their big cameras around, but you really stood out with your wheel'.
One lesson here is to do some more arm excercises...
I then 'camera stabilised' the footage in Shake (very different from locking a shot off around a single point) to make things smoother and to take out the kicks and twitches. On some frames you might see a little 'burring' which is stabilised motion blurred frames. Everything was blown up 5% to refill the frame (otherwise there were black edges appearing where stuff had been stabilised), and Shake FilmGrain added.
I loved the freedom and fluidity the FigRig gave me, and got some envious glances from some guys with ENG cameras tied to huge tripods. I should get commision on atleast 3 sales from that day from people who came up to me! I saw other people photographing and videoing me as I 'drove' my camera, and this just seemed to add to the surrealness of the occasion for some people. One bloke said 'all these guys with their big cameras around, but you really stood out with your wheel'.
One lesson here is to do some more arm excercises...
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electricpig
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Please download the file from here now, rather than the Mac.com, I've only got 250gigs a month and it's being chewed up by this:
Scratch all this. Bigupload has turned out to be shite.
It's back here now, I'll take the hit:
http://www.savefile.com/files.php?fid=3129687
Scratch all this. Bigupload has turned out to be shite.
It's back here now, I'll take the hit:
http://www.savefile.com/files.php?fid=3129687
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electricpig
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------http://www.bigupload.com/d=120672F9
------Wait for the countdown to finish...
------Near the top you'll see the graphic 'bigupload' with a right arrow. Type in the letters/numbers you see and then hit the download button.
------All a bit confusing with the ads I know, but it's free and works.
This is all great in theory, but it doesn't work...
Try here:
http://www.savefile.com/files.php?fid=3129687
------Wait for the countdown to finish...
------Near the top you'll see the graphic 'bigupload' with a right arrow. Type in the letters/numbers you see and then hit the download button.
------All a bit confusing with the ads I know, but it's free and works.
This is all great in theory, but it doesn't work...
Try here:
http://www.savefile.com/files.php?fid=3129687
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