WWII Film (Shooting on Canon 7D)

First shot again to show color continuity not that it matters since I have no clue if these shots are even related:
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Here's the 2nd shot with a copy-paste of settings and some minor changes.
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Original grading:
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shaocaholica said:
First shot again to show color continuity not that it matters since I have no clue if these shots are even related:
shaocaholica_shot1_CC.jpg


Here's the 2nd shot with a copy-paste of settings and some minor changes.
shaocaholica_shot2_CC.jpg


Original grading:
CCed2.jpg
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Sweet, I'm not a huge fan of the grain in the second image but it still looks cool. I worked on changing my color grading a bit and got it to look pretty close - it wasn't too hard, just gotta know what to do to achieve it. Lots of playing with balancing the shadows, gamma and lift of the image... as well as playing with the saturation very slightly.

We've got an interview with a guy who fought from Normandy all the way to Berlin pretty much named Sam Lombardo on Tuesday. His company as the first ones to put a US flag up in Germany during the war, and oddly enough the story behind it is nuts too - it was handmade because they were too far off of the supply chain to get an actual flag... so they took a German surrender flag and made one themselves and well, it was the first US flag to (knowingly) fly in Germany.
 
I like your props and costumes. They have a nice level of wear on them although that implies for me that they've been deployed for a while. I don't mind seeing brand new costumes and props as long as it fits into the story.
 
shaocaholica said:
I like your props and costumes. They have a nice level of wear on them although that implies for me that they've been deployed for a while. I don't mind seeing brand new costumes and props as long as it fits into the story.
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Thank you! They're absolutely historically accurate too, because most of the stuff is legitimate stuff that was USED in the war. The story takes place closer to the end of the war, and these guys supplied everything. They consider themselves living historians and at the "hardcore" level they said. It was so nice to find such a dedicated group of guys who will do anything to re-create accuracy with their history.
 
I can tell those are real Garands :)

I would have loved to help if I still lived in Hershey but I've moved onto greener pastures here in LA.
 
KennonF said:
Thank you! They're absolutely historically accurate too, because most of the stuff is legitimate stuff that was USED in the war. The story takes place closer to the end of the war, and these guys supplied everything. They consider themselves living historians and at the "hardcore" level they said. It was so nice to find such a dedicated group of guys who will do anything to re-create accuracy with their history.
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Dead historians would not really be a great help, would they?
Thou the thing they do is called "Living History" they are not living historians (well actually they are, but you would not call them so). :D

No serious, I´m am member of a similar "hard core" research group here in Germany dedicated to WWII GI and civil reenactment (you may have seen the little flick I posted in this thread) and also an consultant for film and TV, regarding that matter of historical period correctness, I can vouch for those guys you have there. Everything is absolutely perfect in my book. Great job.

Also a great job of CC. I really appreciate the grainy look here. Just make sure you end up with something original and genuine, that does not resemble Private Ryan and Band of Brothers too much. And yeah, I know it´s not easy, cause that kind of desaturated, bleach-bypass look is somehow associated with WWII flicks these days.

shaocaholica said:
I don't mind seeing brand new costumes and props as long as it fits into the story.
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Some of the GIs received brand new (M43) gear after the Battle of the Bulge, also replacements came in new gear.
Because of supply shortness towards the end of the war, some soldiers sometimes wore everything but the kitchen sink. This is an often overlooked fact.

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my ct2 - Frank
 
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Postmaster said:
Dead historians would not really be a great help, would they?
Thou the thing they do is called "Living History" they are not living historians (well actually they are, but you would not call them so). :D

No serious, I´m am member of a similar "hard core" research group here in Germany dedicated to WWII GI and civil reenactment (you may have seen the little flick I posted in this thread) and also an consultant for film and TV, regarding that matter of historical period correctness, I can vouch for those guys you have there. Everything is absolutely perfect in my book. Great job.

Also a great job of CC. I really appreciate the grainy look here. Just make sure you end up with something original and genuine, that does not resemble Private Ryan and Band of Brothers too much. And yeah, I know it´s not easy, cause that kind of desaturated, bleach-bypass look is somehow associated with WWII flicks these days.



Some of the GIs received brand new (M43) gear after the Battle of the Bulge, also replacements came in new gear.
Because of supply shortness towards the end of the war, some soldiers sometimes wore everything but the kitchen sink. This is an often overlooked fact.

p000008fw4.jpg


my ct2 - Frank
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Thank you for such positive comments and great information. I'm not as knowledgeable as the guys who did the re-enacting so I put a lot of my trust into what they did with their props and costumes, but I have certainly learned quite a few things during the course of this project. It's a really high compliment to hear this stuff from a person who is deep into re-enacting who wasn't involved in the project. We're trying to keep it from being too similar to the other films (and on no-budget, obviously it won't be quite as large of scale as both of those) but incorporating a few general ideas or techniques that made those films work. If it's not broke don't fix it (But just don't wear it out!) is the way I was thinking about it.

Thanks again!
 
Oh also - I don't know if you noticed the German wearing the American overcoat, but I tried to incorporate some of the small historical facts like that into this film. Towards the end of the war, the Germans were sooo meager with their supplies that they took whatever they could find. There are a couple famous photos, one comes to mind where there are a couple Germans running across a road in front of some armor that is on fire, and I think one of them has a M1 Carbine and US over-coat. Interesting little things like that are what makes up the big picture (just in my opinion)
 
KennonF said:
Towards the end of the war, the Germans were sooo meager with their supplies that they took whatever they could find.
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Yeah, towards the end everything goes. Heck they even made jackets and pants from Italian tarpaulins.

all the best, Frank
 
We interviewed a man named Sam Lombardo last night, most patriotic man I've ever met in my life and wasn't even born in the US. He was born in Italy and moved here, then back to Italy, then Mussolini's oppression came and he moved back here and decided he wanted to defend our great country... so he fought in WWII, front lines of the Battle of the Bulge, then in Korea, then in the Tet Offensive in Vietnam and never got wounded once. What a hell of a man that is right?

Anyway - pieces of the interview will be in this film, I'll post a small quote video later of him speaking.
 
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