Mark Sanew

Thanks for your comments.

 

I am currently studying Cinematography at Art Center College of Design in LA. Despite small shorts and class assignments, this is the one big project so far.

 

As to the trailer content, the idea was to get a trailer out as quickly as possible to get more money for post(the usual story). The sound edit was not complete and the deadline for Sundance was fast approaching. We had 2 1/2 weeks of post to make that deadline. Surely, there will soon be a fuller trailer.

 

We had a standard package - 18, 25, 35, 50, 85. I was very shallow on any lens I used except for day ext with the 18. Had to keep the lens open as much as possible to hide groundglass in dark situations. Of course there was the struggle of using a very minimal light package when shooting night interiors that are supposed to play as day.

 

I shot in 720p24 for the entire shoot with (2) 16gig cards. We had a few slow motion shots that I cranked up to 60fps and with Panasonic's converter addendum(found on their website) it looks beautiful.

 

I was sadly given a lens, the 18, that had a brutal aberration on the the left side. It basically left me with 15% of the frame blurred. My fault for not noticing before taking the lenses.

 

I learned 100 fold what I have in the classroom in 8 days on set. You can't set an amount on that kind of experience.

 

Jeremy

The look is amazing, the shots color, framing lighting is smooth and really jumps out has a great feel to it.

Obviously it's easy to get caught up in the technical side, since you are in school have you figured out how to separate the shot being technical and artsy from being functional?

This is the opening clip I directed for a student film festival.

It's only for filmmakers, who understand the inside-humor.

I recommend watching it a least twice in order to get most of the jokes, like the mafer that holds the toothbrush.

 

Enjoy, and tell me what you think.

 

-Yuval

 

A filmmaker's day - download divx version (15 mb)

I believe I got most of the jokes never being in film school I have to say that was a good piece of work. The gel over the light and clamps were amusing.

The transitional work was smooth, lighting, look and framing were great ,color was vibrant and I stayed interested waiting for the next scene.

The music was weak, but I know that was kinda the point.

What camera and lighting equipment were used and what film school is this for?

Well I will start with the good.

Your story telling ability is good, it was smooth and well done.

The narration and many of your shots flowed with the story as well as the look.

The story had me interested but I was immediately questioning why if they struggle for their identities do they dress the same all the time?

Why do they look so much the same?

The story of the girl was somewhat lost on me.

So on to my problems.

Myspace blows, the quality of the video and audio is so bad it would not matter if you shot with a VHS-C camera or film the quality is so poor.

It looked like there was some great use of the natural light and some good shots, some very good ones but the encoding is awful.

I wore studio headphones and the audio is a bit rough, the audio transitions were choppy, but I realize you were probably focusing more on the shots and story so it's not a major thing.

The music went well with it and hid most of the problems.

Its hard to go to locations and get dead silence for each scene.

Overall the shots, the look (from what I could see) and your story telling ability is good.

I lost interest a bit in the characters only because I felt like the story was playing on one tone.

The range of emotion stayed in neutral or low. No comedy and no real points of upswing. But that may be the story.

Regardless I am hardly a pro but thats my take.

MARK,

 

NICELY DONE.

 

Clean camera and lighting, very good sound. Just enough fx in post to lend something to the story.

If this is your first project I see good things in your future. I liked it.

 

Chuck

First project with all new camera, lighting and sound.

Quite a process.

Thanks I appreciate it.

This was my first project on the XL2, it was never truly completed but was a good primer into all of the new equipment.

This is a hobbyist project. This is all made with friends with the same interests.

http://www.savagegeese.com/curtainfalls.html

Any thoughts?