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    Talk the director into doing a long lens shot off sticks, slo mo .. or use a Gopro 9 on a gimbal .. seriously .. ?
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    Thanks !
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    Hi Miguel .. wow great many thanks .. I just listened to the Chris Menges , Roger Deakins podcast and they mentioned my dad quite alot ,as Menges was his assistant on Poor Cow and I think the first few shoots Chris Menges worked on .. anyway thank you again sir !
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    Yeah re spill , I would light the screen 1 stop lower or at least make it lower than your subjects .. false color if you have it is handy for checking your GS.. but these days its all a lot easier than it used to be .. they will junk matt around the subject too , so you don't have to worry about a corner of the scree being dark / wrinkled .. the whole screen doesn't have to be evenly lit.. just the area behind your subject .. green spill is a pain with blond hair ,and seeing your in Byron Bay Im sure you will have some blonde models .. ? .. keep the action a decent way in front of the screen and don't over light it , I wouldn't stress too much though , these days you can key off an unlit green bin liner .. make sure the underwear isn't green , or have a blue screen too just in case .. !
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    Sure the variable would have to start from zero not 2 stops ,or at least one stop .. and maybe up another stop on top .. but it will happen Im sure .. Venice ,yes great ND but it always has to be a group of 2 filters , even if one is clear .. one LCD screen with an electric current .. smaller , quicker , and cheaper ..I guess Sony will put this and AF in the Venice first, to try to get a lead in the high end .. but presumably Arri are working on the same in some secret dungeon in Munich ..
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    Can they get worse than the tent pole ,escapist super hero bollocks thats being knocked out now ?
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    I here by predict .. Probyn's Criteria .. within 3 years .. all the usual suspect high end cameras will have as standard ,dual ISO or triple ISO .. variable ND .. either Sony sell the patent rights or the others get around it .. and the big one AF.. yes Auto Focus .. not for every shot.. but for singles extreme shallow DoF (god knows what size sensors in 3 years !) , running at / away from camera etc .. it just saves time = money = thats why it will happen 100% ..
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    Shameless boast .. Roger Deakins and Chris Menges talking about my dear departed old man ,on the latest pod cast about Chris ..
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    So Roger Deakins is not a DoP when he shoots on an Alexa .. or you are joking yes ? please say you are ..
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    Careful don't let scientific truth get in the way of film being better for everything .. ?
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    Yes that guy certainly knew what he was talking about ..
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    The said deceased actors could then give out the prizes at the AI Oscars !. known as the Big Al,s ... I think we are onto something here sir ..
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    Well its an interesting idea .. could the lighting ideas of Roger Deakins be used in some AI program to come up with virtual lighting 3D setups .. given the script, story board and location details !.. you never know .. !
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    I think the aspect ratio is far more of a problem ? .. and yes I doubt this persons use of a crappy digital crop in will be putting Roger Deakins ,or even me ! out of a job anytime soon ..
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    https://www.sony.net/Products/Cinematography/Venice/ Top right Hot button of the LCD screen , set to Cont (continuous ) from Step .. + / - buttons
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    Oh great thanks for the quotes .. I actually thought he shot more than 1/3rd .. thanks for taking the time to do that ..
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    Do you have a link to the article about Badlands .. I would be interested to have a look .. thanks .. Im not in the same country as my brother but I can give it a try ..
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    Interesting Malik mentions the over exposing , but it definitely wasn't his idea ? and it wasn't to avoid using lights or reflectors.. I do remember my dad saying he wanted a sort of washed out , hot , bland look to the day exteriors day shots and that Malik was very concerned when they sure some un corrected rushes. Yes they did use lights just that when the topic of the lighting budget came up Malik has been surprised he used lights at all !... my dad was from documentary work and had done alot of the BBC "Wednesday Plays" with Ken Loach ,and then Poor Cow ,Loaches first feature film .. there was a whole new wave of a more naturalistic lighting in the 60,s early /70,s .. presumably Malik had checked out his work and thought he just didn't light anything ....he had shot Down Hill Racer before Badlands too .. maybe he was basing the no lights idea around that film .. which of course used lights .. Malik was just very green then .. Sorry I don't have the slides , hopefully my brother in the UK still has them !
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    I don't think it is personally.. its just shade
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    I wish I could ask my old man !.. he started the film and it was a pretty bumpy ride with Maliks inexperience I heard .. in the end my dad got an ulcer but didnt leave due to any big falling out , and was given the Cadillac after the shoot which he drove alone the west coast .. Malik is in Badlands as a friend who comes to the door of the rich guy and Kit answers , apparently the actor who was meant to do it just didnt turn up !.. all I can remember is the old man was over exposing all the hot day ext by 2 stops and "printing down"..and that was kept during the shoot .. and he shot the house burning stuff too .. I think he shot most of it and has the top credit, (Tak Fujimoto was the AC and did some shooting after the old man went to hospital )..or that was just in his contract .. he was flown over from the UK and when he got there there was basically no lights ! as Malik thought he didnt use them.. great film but he really was very green when he made it, straight out ion film school virtually .. and there was alot of upside down slates going on .. but still personally I think its his best film regardless of any family tie .. the music is fantastic and two un known young actors .. he had lots of slides but many seemed to be of Sissy Spacek and of him taken by her mmmm.. she did end up marrying the art director I believe ..
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    Sony definitely had a strange logic to a lot of their menus .. also compared to say Arri or REDs the Sony cameras just has so many different available settings , which is good to some degree but then you had to have this huge menu .. they have got better eventually, with the Venice / and Fx line , Fx line has a lot of stuff you can change by touch screen now in the status menu .. and the A7s3 has a completely new menu structure .. The thread you mention was I think was more to do specifically with Slog settings in the f5/55 and the various pitfalls of the EI mode , and actual recordings levels being at a set ISO at all times and the EI being an offset , like using a light meter and film .. Tyler had problems ,or at least his AC who despite being a "Sony expert " actually didn't know the camera very well., nor seemed to understand shooting in EI mode . a give away being it being referred to as EL mode . hard to blame Sony for that .. the main crazy thing was the SDI out settings that made it very easy to record the LUT internally unintentionally .. which happened a lot in the early days of the f5/55 ..
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    Well put .. exactly the case .. .. add a bit of Walter Mitty syndrome and unfortunately that whats happening on this once great forum .. This comment sums it up entirely .. "Eventually those comments will overrun the forum, that will be a great day." overrun ? yikes ..
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    .. shoot log / lighting / grip gear / exposure setting / you can get alot better results than this example, that seems to be being put forward as the pinnacle of Digital capture , I wonder if it was even shot with Log gamma ,for some weird reason.. anyone could find the same from some similar corporate shoot on a tight budget shot on film .. its the usual meaningless post from the amateur film worshipping cult.. on a day release from the institute ?
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    close the Iris a bit .. the problem is Karim is not a cameraman .. and thus doesn't really have an understanding of shooting in the field .. ie "You'd think someone would have solved this problem by now. I guess I'll have to come up with my own high level solution, and if I do before someone else does, I'll post it on this site."
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    Ok who left the padded cell doors unlocked ... again ..
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