shooting a short film with a FX 1

[andres victorero]

Hi In the next march I´m going to work like a DP in a short film of a fiend mine. The cam is the FX 1 PAL. I shot a lot with DVX100 but HDV is new for me.

The short film will be very contastly and there will be a lot of night shoots. the lights won´t be a problem. we have enought lighting material.

 

Any suggestion? your advices are much apreciated. ;)

Edited January 1, 2006 by andres victorero

[Brant Collins]

Hi In the next march I´m going to work like a DP in a short film of a fiend mine. The cam is the FX 1 PAL. I shot a lot with DVX100 but HDV is new for me.

The short film will be very contastly and there will be a lot of night shoots. the lights won´t be a problem. we have enought lighting material.

 

Any suggestion? your advices are much apreciated. ;)

 

Do some test shots and get a good feel for the camera and learn it's settings

[Matt Sandstrom]

the mpeg compression creates lots of blocky and smeary artifacts in the shadows, so i'd suggest lighting to a lower ratio and pushing the blacks down in post.

 

/matt

[Milo]

Mattias, what camera did you use on "just wondering" ?

Milo

[Matt Sandstrom]

arri sr3 with vision2 expression 500t. spirit scan to digibeta. no hd. my last short film was shot with the fx1. i'll post some stills and clips soon.

 

/matt