WWII Film (Shooting on Canon 7D)
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I agree; I explored other routes of color correction such as sepia toned / really warm with desaturation to it, and I liked them but for some reason I just came back to this. The old adage "if it's not broken, don't fix it" kind of came to mind, and I just feel like it works well with it.
Thank you!
sweet, I really like it a lot!
How long is it? It looks like your storyline will be interesting too, does it take place in Germany or Japan? The scene with the boats and everything had me wondering.
Re-Enactors used for this? I'm sorry to ask so many questions, I'm just curious how you did it :]
The only thing I saw that was a big no-no was the medic firing a gun, regardless of their situation the Geneva Convention said they weren't allowed to fire; though you could easily say that it was the end of the war or something when it didn't matter as much and the Germans started killing the medics anyway and they started firing back.
Please, let me know when this film is done. I would love to watch it, I always am up for more WWII films.
Kennon@DecembersEdge.com
Jason_Boone
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The audio sounded nice and clean. Love it.
bahaha, so true!!!
Most of the time, I was shooting really high aperture... around F/1.4 - F/2.8 with high shutter speeds so I could maintain a good depth of field. Some of the shots, however, I shot a lot lower around F/11 or so.
Someone else had mentioned over-exposure in the one shot; I actually did this intentionally, with the plans to put a sky in during post-production for a very high-dynamic range look, I attempted it and it looked really nice, but I didn't feel good enough about the masking on it yet so I didn't want to post it up and have people saying it looked bad :] haha
Thank you!
Three condenser mics surrounding someone firing the weapons off will do the trick. Wait til you hear the Ping'ing we got out of the M1's, it gives me chills hearing that hahaha
marlontorres
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The film will be about 30 minutes and it takes place in Europe.
No, I didn't use re-enactors. I figured I'd rather use real actors and dress them up as soldiers. The re-enactors I found couldn't act for shi*.
As for the medic, yes, the story does take place during the last week of WWII (May 3rd 1945) and my medic is carrying around a fire arm for self-defense. It is explained in the movie
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The film will be about 30 minutes and it takes place in Europe.
No, I didn't use re-enactors. I figured I'd rather use real actors and dress them up as soldiers. The re-enactors I found couldn't act for shi*.
As for the medic, yes, the story does take place during the last week of WWII (May 3rd 1945) and my medic is carrying around a fire arm for self-defense. It is explained in the movie
Nice! I didn't mean to tear your thing down at all with my comments, I was just curious if you knew that or not. I ended up using a group of hardcore re-enactors that will do anything and everything to create historical accuracy and authenticity and just happened to get lucky with the fact that they were all really decent actors. Under my direction I was able to get them to really let loose and have a good time with it, I ended up getting them to do all the acting for a stack of 10 pizzas, a couple cases of beer, screen credit and portrait style photographs. They are a great bunch of guys and I couldn't have gotten luckier than to shoot this whole thing for such a small budget. I just turned 23 two weeks ago and I don't really have a ton of money that is extra per month to use for budget on a film, so I have been doing my best to accommodate.
I'm really looking forward to your film, the music in the trailer gives it a nice feel as well. Who did the composing of your score, by the way? I saw another clip where the guy shot himself under the tree and I was just curious about the music.
Also - was the armor real or composited in there? Very cool stuff!!!
Again; very well done!!!
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marlontorres
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Well, I'm on a tight budget myself so I'm doing pretty much everything. Write Direct DP Edit Music VFX... My day job as a CG artist also helps with my films production value. The armor was all CG
Well, I'm on a tight budget myself so I'm doing pretty much everything. Write Direct DP Edit Music VFX... My day job as a CG artist also helps with my films production value. The armor was all CG
Awesome, maybe I can get you to assist me in after effects on some small effects... I would love to work together with you if possible, I'm also performing all of those roles myself with the help of a few people here and there.
I use After Effects pretty extensively for typography effects and things like that, but I haven't really done much in the way of realistic looking explosions or smoke... and I'd rather not use videocopilot stuff if possible.
Let me know if you're willing to help composite one or two small things for me (grenade explosion, plane fly over shot) and if you want compensated for it how much you'd ask. Again, I don't have a lot but I'd be willing to compensate fairly for it.
marlontorres
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Well it depends, I have at least 15 vfx shots I still need to work on myself so I'm pretty swamped. If you can give me more detail on what the exact effect is and what needs to be done to it, ill get a better idea and we can work something out. I'm looking for a few people to help me out on fx as well, haha...
If you're too busy I totally understand - your project is your key passion at this point. I did a decent job with my vfx but I just feel like someone could take it up a notch or two so that's why I'm just looking around for someone who might be able to help.
I posted some graded vs ungraded stuff above by the way!
WhiteMonkey
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I may be able to help you both out with effects. PM me with the details.
PMed you!
shaocaholica
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I like the colors but I think theres too much contrast. I'd like to see a few more details in the shadows, just a few. In the first shot, the highlights feel a bit too blown on the hand. Just my 2 cents.
I might be able to help out with VFX as well but I'm still uncertain about me new work schedule.
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Heres a quick pass I did on the first shot with lightroom 3, about 3 minutes worth. Wow LR is fast for this stuff.
Original grading:
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I like the colors but I think theres too much contrast. I'd like to see a few more details in the shadows, just a few. In the first shot, the highlights feel a bit too blown on the hand. Just my 2 cents.
I might be able to help out with VFX as well but I'm still uncertain about me new work schedule.
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Heres a quick pass I did on the first shot with lightroom 3, about 3 minutes worth. Wow LR is fast for this stuff.
Original grading:
Hmm, actually that's not such a bad suggestion. I like your color correction on it, it seems to retain a bit more detail too. Thanks for that, I will definitely try to mimic that!
shaocaholica
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Good luck trying to mimic it in anything other than Lightroom (stills editing, but can batch sequences). I've got 3 colored and graduated filters going and natural film grain.
Do you mind if I use that shot to show how still image editors can do some great stuff much faster than dedicated video editors?
Sure thing, I agree with you by the way.
I might just use Photoshop to color grade from here on out.