Guy Meachin Posted January 25, 2005 Share Posted January 25, 2005 Hi, we've just had some of our work put up onto the internet for people to look at, if anyone has the time could they give me some feedback on our film in terms of colour, composition, light etc. Unfortunately the film doesn't add up too a great deal but be patient, some of the shots are held a little too long and some perhaps unessacery. It was meant to be a kind of an experimental short. My job was Camera Op and DP (if I can call myself that). Click on Delph at the top left of the screen to view our film. http://www.media-arts.mmu.ac.uk/filmhome.html Cheers Guy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Premium Member Adam Frisch FSF Posted January 25, 2005 Premium Member Share Posted January 25, 2005 I like it! Some great surreal imagery in there. Great! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DavidSloan Posted January 25, 2005 Share Posted January 25, 2005 I loved some of the images, they were very poetic...the piece as a whole, doesn't work, though. Can we have the technical details? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guy Meachin Posted January 25, 2005 Author Share Posted January 25, 2005 (edited) Yeh I agree totally, it doesn't work, I tried to do my best with the job I was given. I think we all had different ideas and so it ended up being something totally different to what origonally set out to make. What technical info would you like? Shot on XL1s in Southport, Merseyside. Used a polariser for the daytime shots. I edited it in FCP 4 HD. Used the custom gradients also in FCP quite a bit, what do you think, OTT? Also I boosted the constrast and brought the brightness down slightly. I also added a little gaussian blur to take the crispness (is that a word?) of the video out. For most of the shots I boosted the oranges and browns using the 3-way CC, to try to keep a colour consistancy throughout. Guy Edited January 25, 2005 by Meach Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guy Meachin Posted January 26, 2005 Author Share Posted January 26, 2005 Any other comments would be great! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alvin Pingol Posted January 29, 2005 Share Posted January 29, 2005 It seems the site has gone through an update, so the first link you posted no longer works. New address: http://www.media-arts.mmu.ac.uk/online-cin...ine-cinema.html Unfortunately, Quicktime gives me a "10060: Disconnected" error whenever I try to watch your film. :( Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guy Meachin Posted January 30, 2005 Author Share Posted January 30, 2005 Yeh I had this problem too, if you have quicktime go into Quicktime preferences and click Transport setup, click - Use this protocol and port ID, set Transport Protocol to HTTP and click other Port ID and type in 554. Don't be put off by this, it only takes a sec and it's really easy, any probs let me know! Cheers Guy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guy Meachin Posted January 30, 2005 Author Share Posted January 30, 2005 Thanks for pointing out the dead link by the way! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alvin Pingol Posted January 30, 2005 Share Posted January 30, 2005 Just watched it. There are some really nice shots in there. I did not think the post grads were over the top, I actually felt they worked quite well. I plan to experiment with digital grads just to see how far I can go before it starts looking "fake", and also test what I can do with digital color grads. Though I can't say for sure, as I'm not sure how far you pushed it, the color correction held up well without any obvious artifacts coming from the limited colorspace of DV (the Quicktime compression may have hid these artifacts?). Overall, images were a little dark I'd say, but this could've been what you were going for. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guy Meachin Posted January 31, 2005 Author Share Posted January 31, 2005 Yeh, kind of wanted it to be dark overall but maybe some are too dark. Thanks 4 watching it! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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