Hi all,
I wanted to share my first serious project, which I worked on with my director-friend Andreas from Immediate Art Ltd. It's a music video featuring our friend Johan playing his version of Memphis Stomp, a jazzy composition by Dave Grusin.
I was the DP and the colourist on this project, while Andreas was directing and editing. A quick outline of our workflow below, for those interested:
Shot on my Canon KissX5 (600D/T3i), using the EF 50mm f/1.4 UMS and EF-S 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6 IS II lenses with Magic Lantern, Technicolor CineStyle picture profile and a battery grip
Takes were supported by a Velbon VideoMate II tripod and a DIY table-top PVC dolly, inspired by the Frugal Filmmaker
Edited on a Mac in FCPX and exported to an Uncompressed 422 10-bit file (~37GB)
Imported to Premiere CS6 on Win7 and CineStyle LUT applied using RedGiant's free plugin LUT Buddy
Color correction and grading applied using RedGiant Magic Bullet Looks II
Exported to uncompressed AVI (~55GB) - not sure why FCPX uncompressed was smaller earlier!
Imported back to FCPX for final titles and media export (FCPX only offers 16mbit h264 1080p, but that is more than enough for YouTube)
Things we learnt:
MacDrive is extremely useful when working in cross-platform workflow (allows read/write to OSX formatted HDDs)
FCPX on its own is not good enough to release beyond YouTube: no control over bitrate without external application called Compressor and no ability to import uncompressed AVI easily (MPEG StreamClip software to the rescue!)
take, re-take - rinse repeat - until you have much more footage than you think you need
shot-list planned to the second is a blessing (thanks Andreas)
Enjoy the video and please do offer any feedback that comes to mind - we would appreciate it greatly! :)
You can watch it here (please select HD 1080p if able):
