Chayse Irvin ASC, CSC

Hi,

 

I have worked as a data recording engineer on various productions and I take a very dim view of deleting "unwanted" takes. You aren't objective enough on set; modern directors, especially commercials directors, are apt to assemble scenes from a variety of takes, and I think that it's unreasonable to expect the end-to-end-perfect take to ever exist.

 

Equip yourself to keep everything and maintain film-style camera discipline. Said discipline has been absolutely laughable on many digital shoots I've done on both tape and data and it is incredibly unhelpful.

 

Phil

I totally agree. In the future everything gets captured. The person running the capture system insisted on conserving HD space... see what that got us? The 1 day rental of the HVX could have bought us 2 more 320 gig HD's, which would have more then covered all our footage.

Thank goodness you guys caught it before you wrapped the day out and went home (or worse, wrapped the movie).

Na. We didn't catch it till midway threw the editors cut and we finally reshot last sunday. The director was furious about the mix up. It gets worse tho... we shot the prototype G35 unit from Cinemek, and the unit was out on another project so we had to shoot without it. So we'll see if the footage matches... I think it will because its a black and white project, and I could fake the DOF matching problem with the way the set was designed...

Solid reel man! I'm sure you'll be getting good gigs in no time.

Really awesome man. Left me wanting more.

Its a good idea to have one person dedicated to down loading the P2 cards, backing up, file naming and management

That is KEY. Not only should someone be offloading and moving p2 cards back to set... someone should be responsible for the footage once it leaves the camera and in communication with the script super on which clips stay and which ones go. Your HD space will fill up pretty quickly if your taking all the footage and not just circle takes. I just did a short film with the HVX where we did have a guy offloading and moving the p2 cards from cpu to camera all the time... but mistakes were made by the Scripty and a circle take was mistaken for a non circle take and we had to a reshoot. So make sure they know whats going on.

That was awesome.

I did 2 years of film school loving them both... but my course was only 7k a year. If I were you I would try and do both film school and invest into a project that could help your reel and maybe win an award. You can buy books and read all the stuff you would in film school... but for me it was about meeting and establishing relationships with the people I was going to be working with in the future.

I'm shooting a project with a bit of Kodak 3374 12ASA. Has anyone here shot this stock before and have some advice on shooting it? Anyone have stills I could view?