Alex Mizin
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Hi guys,
gearing up for a shoot in a week and a bit and am looking for any advice regarding a car mount as I've never had to rig one without assistance before. We're getting either a Ronford Suction Mount or the Microdolly Car Mount Kit, shooting with an EX1 out on location during the day.
Has anyone used these before? How hard are they to set up? Any general tips and ways of setting up a car mount? Are polirizers absolutely critical if shooting with the windows down?
I've been looking for some kind of reference materials for these two mounts and haven't found any, so if anyone knows where I can get a look at them, would be great.
Thanks a lot,
Alex
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Alex,
Right away, the opening shot has too much head room. This continues through the rest of the "documentary interview" and into the meeting with the Williams character (though all of the shots of Williams seem to have fine headroom). However, this is really the only major problem I saw. One other thing was the lighting when Williams was modeling the brightly colored soccer (football) jersey. He was lit with hard light and cast a huge shadow on the wall. Had he been blocked 6 feet further from the wall or the light had been softer, this wouldn't have been a problem. Besides that, I didn't care for the zoom in on Williams. I think a dolly in would have looked much nicer.
The camera had a nice arc. It started out fairly locked down and generally wide. By the end, it was handheld and tight. It complemented the story arc nicely.
The lighting was very nice as well, with the already mention exception. It was soft and expressed all tones from highlights to shadow nicely.
Outside of the cinematography, both actors were good and the location felt authentic and appropriate. I did notice that the consultant's suit was slightly ill-fitting, especially when he put his hands behind his head. This could have been a deliberate choice, but I feel that there wasn't enough else ill-fitting (not necessarily his clothes) in the production design to make it work. The story was interesting and not too cliche.
Hi Matt,
Your comments are dead on. Most of the things that you mentioned are due to the technical and space problems that we had. The headroom shots (in the interview at least) were used due to other takes where the framing was a little better were lost due to sound problems. The harsh light on the soccer jersey shot, we wanted to make it harsh but yeah it probably was a bit too much so. The dolly on Williams instead of zoom would have been good also but we just couldn't fit it on the other side of the table (which we couldn't move, it weighed a ton!!).
Funny you should mention the suit. The actor was a bodybuilder so no-matter what we put him in, when he put his hands behind his head, it looked too small. In the end we felt that he needed to be in the suit, even though it didn't quite fit.
Thank's for you comments mate,
Alex
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Hi everyone,
We've recently completed our second short The Consultant and would love some of you to have a look.
Alex
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Richard, going to see it again tomorrow :)
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To me, throwing in some explosions and gunfire and revving motors seems a lot easier than trying to do subtle sound design on a quiet picture like No Country or There Will Be Blood or Elizabeth.
What so impressed me regarding sound in No Country was the use, or rather non-use of music. I don't think there's a single piece in the whole movie until the credits start rolling? Regardless, very minimal amounts. Yet the tension during some scenes in the movie was unbelievable, probably one of the few movies I've been to this year where I was literally on the edge of my seat. Wonderful :)
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Deakins certainly did look somewhat disappointed. As good as it is for two pieces of your work to be recognised and nominated, fairly likely that's going to seriously hurt your chances. perhaps if the cinematographer gets nominated for more than one piece in the future the votes should be tallied for the person's name, rather than the actual movie ;)
It was a bit boring seeing Bourne Ultimatum get most of the tech stuff. As enjoyable as it was, I can't help but think that just because you have cuts every millisecond and the soundscape is constantly filled with guns, explosions and shattering of glass it deserves the title of 'Best'.
Daniel Day Lewis rightly won for his performance I think. Clooney was great in Michael Clayton but Lewis was just phenomenal. And how young does he look!
Bit bummed that Cate Blanchette didn't win for supporting role though...
Alex
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I agree with David on this one. I enjoyed the movie but the plots were a bit overly dense. So much going back and forth and back and forth. One has to wonder how much of a flop it would be without Depp and Rush in there. Keira Nightley and Orlando Bloom just don't impress me in this one.
I quite liked the cinematography, though not enough to properly comment on it. Oh, and Keith Richards makes a good pirate i rekon :D
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I shot footage with the HVX - 720p/24pn in letterbox mode. I opened up a new project in Avid at 720/23.97. when I pulled up the MXF files they look stretched out and don't contain the 16:9 black matte.
Why did this occur and how can I fix this?
Are the files stretched vertically? Are your monitors set to 16:9? If not the rightclick on the monitors and click the "use 16:9" button.
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1. You can move clips in the timeline using the splice tools (the red and yellow arrows) I think the default hotkey for the one you would use to simply drag a clip is a '
2. So did you bring in the audio of a clip and try to match it to a completely different clip? Or did you delete the audio off the clip and are now trying to add the audio back?
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Looks great! I'm a bit of a novice so I'm afraid I can't add any other useful comments or questions but I like it. The shot with the face of the woman is beautiful. The first frame grab is excellent also.
Alex
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Wow and this is your first short film? Very good. I liked the mood and your edits, there were some slight inconsistancies in lighting as well as some problems with the audio but it was definitely well done. The voiceovers had some popping between lines, maybe add some room tone or something. As far as the lighting concern goes, the scene where she's on the floor looking at the broken glass...at one point she seems a little darkly lit and then suddenly she's very bright. Maybe it's ok and it's just me.
Kev
You are dead straight on with the lighting. Basically I abandoned any thought of light continuity as I was desperately short for time. I finished the last shot about 7 hours before the delivery! I basically decided to screw it and just stick the lights in for the shadows where they looked ok and didn't get into shot. Having said that I only did have 2X500W lights I got from a hardware store.
The problems with sound are spot on also. I basically had to record with an attachment mike which was not very good quality. The 1st and 2nd voiceovers were slightly worked on to remove the noise and to add some pop to the sound but the last one was just cut in, I had no time for messing about with it - I presume that's when you heard the clicking?
Cheers for the comments,
Alex
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Hello guys,
I'm in year 12 in Melbourne, Australia. It's my final year of secondary school. This is the final piece of assessment for my Media subject. Please take a look and tell me any comments or suggestions you might have,
Best regards,
Alex Mizin
http://www.mysharefile.com/v/1388774/JOKER...CUT_WM.wmv.html
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Hello everyone,
I'm shooting a production with a XL2 camera that unfortunately has to be put into service for two days. Unfortunately I have to keep shooting and the only way to go is to shoot using my really basic consumer Panasonic NV-GS25. It is very basic but for thses specific scenes it will have to do.
What my question is that I need to get a wide angle lens for it. Panasonic has one supported lens but I ca'nt find it anywhere to buy. So is there a lens that can fit my camera? Or is there any other way i can stick on a lens? The lens on the camera is 30.5mm.
Any comments will be appreciated.
Need a little help with a dolly
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We have recently used a DigiDolly kit with great effect. Very light frame and track onto which you plant your tripod. Here in AUS its 65$ a day for hire.