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MagicCat

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A rather large project was just handed to me on a Hard Drive. It is for a commercial prodution. The client said the "Just out of Film School" producers she hired could not produce the spot she paid for, so she handed it it to me to complete. With over 50 girls to key out, It did not take me long to find out why they were having such problems...




Believe me folks, this is the GOOD stuff!! The person Rode the zoom button constantly, no lighting, and, and and...


OMG!!! bwwwwaaaaha ha ha ha, sob sob, weep weep. this is a mess a 2 year old drinking grape juice on a white carpet could not compete with!! Please tell me nobody on this forum would do such a job, PLEASE??!!
 

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concur....

concur....

there is no way you'll be able to satisfy anyone with that, and you'll give yourself an ulcer trying...

I say, reshoot, without hesitation.
 
Oh! YES!!! this is real!! No kidding. No Reshoot, no nothing. The client is out 500 bucks for this green plastic nightmare and has airtime paid for already,. No refunds on that either.

Im not crazy, I told her I would key 1 or two scenes and have to pull the rest off of DVD's she has had shot over the years. She does not care about quality, but must please 200 parents with a few shots of their girls, or risk dancers withdrwawing from her school. OMG, what a mess.
 
If the "greenscreen" and carpet were not so many shades of green Primatte would be able to distinguisg between the green costumes and the background, but not now. Green pom poms would render you screwed under any scenario.

Greenscreen that doesn't roll out to the floor for full body shots, No lighting, Lots of Zooming, Green costumes, Green Pom Poms = reshoot or run for the hills.

No way.
 
I just pulled this footage up. I laughed so hard my eyes were watering and I think I left a puddle under my chair Then it occured to me, this is all the footage there is. HORROR struck.

The photogs actually made a commercial from this mess and then literally yelled at the client for questioning their artistic abilities. Oh, God, I wish I could show the rest of this stuff. I have NEVER seen such bad work in my entire life!! Not to mention thier level of professionalism in dealing with the client.

Enjoy!!
 
I have an hour and 20 minutes of this garbage. Two 25 year old kids shot this for a past client of mine. They both just graduated from some film school and the little Lucas's conned her into paying them for this.

I will write a complete story sometime. This one is almost too horrific to imagine, it is "Everything you should never do". The caps above represent some of the BEST of the footage.
 
Why this is YOUR nightmare? Why you cannot just turn it down saying that this is worthless crap? Even an amateur like me would not shoot green dresses and pom-poms against green screen. This is hilarious!
 
LOL :) I'm sorry dude, I'm not laughing at you but I can picture a key with the girls missing body parts and pom poms. Ha ha ha ha

Looks like a job for Digital Domain
 
Just a few more shots, Im simply in shock. It just keeps getting worse as I scroll down the timeline.


This is why kids should intern with an established company or pro, before they are allowed to set out on their own. Even then, This is just unbelievable.
 

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I would not have posted this if I thought it was NOT something folks should see. I take no offence at all. Beleive me you, i have had my laughs. This was too much to keep al to myself.

Again, Enjoy!!
 
Cranky said:
Why this is YOUR nightmare? Why you cannot just turn it down saying that this is worthless crap? Even an amateur like me would not shoot green dresses and pom-poms against green screen. This is hilarious!
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The client is a VERY good client, I would never accept stuff like this normally. In the past we shot all her stuff. This time she tried to cheesball the price by hiring these two Idiots. I think she has learned her lesson. Consider it a mercinary editing job. If she does not get these girls on TV, she is in much more trouble than I. There are no misconceptions going on with my client, she knows full well how bad this may be.


This one is all about quantity, not quality. Several 2 second low-res Pic in pic shots with an Awful lot of colored moving jumpback/backgrounds should keep this tolerable. Not to mention, I have some clean stuff to pull from too. Stuff THEY didnt shoot.
 
Just a quick Observation,... These two fella's that shot this, that's an HVX200 right? They're possibly DVXUSER Members and may see this thread... Good grief...

Please someone chime in here if I'm too off base however, I would like give you a suggestion, it may or may not be possible to salvage more than you think.

Mocha, Motor, Mokey, over at http://www.imagineersystems.com/
These plugins might help in the right hands.
I've seen some amazing stuff with these tools...
 
NC17z said:
Just a quick Observation,... These two fella's that shot this, that's an HVX200 right? They're possibly DVXUSER Members and may see this thread... Good grief...

Please someone chime in here if I'm too off base however, I would like give you a suggestion, it may or may not be possible to salvage more than you think.

Mocha, Motor, Mokey, over at http://www.imagineersystems.com/
These plugins might help in the right hands.
I've seen some amazing stuff with these tools...
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If they see this thread it'll be the best thing that ever happened to them.
 
NC17z said:
Just a quick Observation,... These two fella's that shot this, that's an HVX200 right? They're possibly DVXUSER Members and may see this thread... Good grief...

Please someone chime in here if I'm too off base however, I would like give you a suggestion, it may or may not be possible to salvage more than you think.
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I agree with you deeply and have always remained exteremely professonal both in private and public. In fact, in 30 years, This is probably a first for me to post something of this nature. Beleive me, I have not gotten into half of this here, and never will. It is bad, really bad. These two are not getting half the spanking they have rightfully earned. And for what it is worth, Im not a mean person, I cant swat a fly without feelign guilty.

I will say this, One of the persons has gone MIA. There is a TON of bought-and-paid-for footage missing from the "Main" camera. I think it is safe to say, there are others who would warmly welcome his re-surfacing
 
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re story board the spot - go for a behind the scenes parody / doco concept- you might be able to dance around the problem with a new concept / gag behind the spot.

like the cheap video production company ad parodies you can watch on youtube. or borat / fashionista style gags.

By the way - That is Awesomely lit footage! Too funny
 
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