Alex Fuchs

Hi Ram, I've heard of this letus35fe thing, but I can't find a site about it. Can you post a link or something? Thanks Alex

Hi Ram, with what cam do work on this videos? Do you shot on film or with Mini35? What budget do you have for this? The Videos look pretty good, but the Sivan Shavit Video looks a bit squeezed or? I personally don't like such warmth looks, but this is just a matter of taste. I like the cool look from the Oforia Vid. But at the end - there is nothing to critique. I like your style, man. Cheers, Alex

hi chris, the pix are a little bit small, but they look very good. I have no doubt the finished film will look good as well. cheers, mate and just do it alex

Ok, this time the infos first. We shot with the 400er series of the Mini35-adaptor by P+S with the Sony Z1 at a pub in Berlin. This time it was low budget, I only had a 4ft 4bank kinoflo, a 200W china ballon, a dedolight set (4x100W) and a couple of bounces. I only used 1/4 and 1/2 WD gels because I worked the whole time with fully opened t-stop (at the cam and the lens!). The car scene was shot with only a two 12V Miniflo set and seems a little bit underexposed but I can live with that. I used a Zeiss HS lens set (18, 50, 80, 100 macro). There was no budget for Dolly, Steadycam etc. We done a tape-to-tape color correction at a pogle, that's it. The light redish tint happens through the compression and will be changed in the next few days. or http://myspacetv.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=...ideoid=13599928 Feel free to critique me harsh I want to learn about a thousand things more. :) Thank you for your time. Alex

Hi Robert, a thousands thanks for your critique. I agree with all of your points and I will have a look, if a re-edit can fix some problems, but I think, I haven't the material to do this. But for the future I learned a lot. Yesterday I have done a tape-to-tape color correction in a postproduction house and put the whole stuff more to cyan. My colleage try to change the the video look with some postproduction tricks. And we try to post a better compression version on our upcoming homepage through the next days. Some shots which looks very grainy before the tape-to-tape correction at a POGLE looks now a little bit better because we used some noise reducer. Thanks all of you for your critique. I take it serious and try to do some better stuff with all this in mind. Ah, and Ram I checked out your stuff - very impressive work - do you shot all this on film or on HD? Cheers, Alex

Thanks for your critique. First of all the video is a result of a test shooting and was shot in about 2 hours. Because the band and I too thought it was only a test the video has become this look. For me this work open my mind, because I done all the stuff I'm not allowed to by other works: Going so tight because the band don't want to show to much of their rehearsal room, wobble the cam, looking for freaky angles, don't care about the field of depth (set it to autofocus) and so on. I have never done a shooting like this before but I found it an impressive experience because I prefer very steady and static cam styles at all. After capturing and the fact that there was no really budget for this video I deceided to do the editing and desatured the material and give it this creepy look because I thought it fittet perfect for this kind of music. And by the way I love the disorientation and the video look, because I shot it with video and it looks very old school - so why don't buy this as look. And I shot it only with available light and there was no lightning design. I put the guys under the lights and just done it. The color grading was hell because of the fluorescent lights (greenish, blueish tints etc.), but I think it looks now good. But I agree to all your points - with a budget and a crew I have never done it like this. It was a kind of improvisation. Cheers, Alex

Is the video so bad?

impressive!!!

Hi there, sorry for the poor quality but it's youtube. Feel free to critique. Thanks Alex

Hi Kieran, all the material where real productions, but most of them with a very small budget. The so called tracking shot has no refelction in frame, I think what you mean is a part of a practical what I put away after this shot (the tracking shot with the girl in bed?), because I don't liked it too. The matrial looks a bit grainy because I compressed it to hard for the web. I often try to light real hard contrasts so I get some trouble when I compress it for the web, because you get really fast noises in the blacks. The finished films/muisc videos look very good on TV.

Thank you for your critique. Scott you can see the full Amos video on www.playback-payback.com.

Wow, nobody there to critique? Be hard, I can live with that.

Hi there, I have my new reel online. Maybe somebody has time to give me a little feedback. Thanks. Alex http://www.visual-bastarts.de/htm/showreel.htm

Hello, I've seen the Video from Ok go "Do what you want" and I asked myself how they created this effect. The video is on youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MUE-4FbM_XI. Maybe somebody knows how this effect works? Thanks, Alex

Hi, I'm planning an shortfilm project and the production will maybe produce this project with the M2-Adapter (http://www.redrockmicro.com/products.html). Because I'm in Germany and nobody of my friends has worked with this system yet, I'm looking for somebody who does it allready and can tell me something about it. We shoot the short with the Sony Z1 (HDV/720p/Pal)). Thx Alex

hi haspel, i think you could be right with your objection that the differnce between s8 and 16mm is watchable on screen because of the grain, but this project i'm planning is just a try. It's all a matter of costs. Maybe I shot all the stuff in s8 (and by the way scotness footage after a telecine transfer of s8 negative stock looks pretty good). When things went wrong I will shoot the whole thing with Mini35/HDV or S16mm, but on one hand I want to check this S8 thing out (with Vision2 200 ASA negative stock) on the other hand S8 will look more like film then this soft Mini35 look will (it's only my opion, because I shot a lot of this Mini35 video stuff). By the way, there are a lot of S8 semi pro cams like the beaulieaus where you can set all cam functions manually and you can work with different c-mount lenses. So I can work as I do for 16mm stuff. cheers alex from berlin to vienna

hi scot, your telcine transfer was from s8 to what? DigiBeta? MiniDV? thanks alex hi axel, I thougth I would try to work like César Charlone (City of God, Man on Fire). He always shot cu's with super16 and all panorama shots with 35mm and then mix it in post after DI. Why should it not work with s8/16mm? cheers & gruss to vienna alex

O.K., the idea is to produce a production trailer on S8/N16 and do a telcine transfer and then made an DVD-Trailer to find some sponsors/producers to shoot the whole movie (then on S16 or HD). Has somebody experience to this workflow? How S8 looks after a transfer/offline edit to MiniDV/DigiBeta? Maybe somebody has experience. My idea was to shot all cu's with S8 and the medium and panorama shots on normal 16mm and put the shots in postproduction together. thanks alex

Maybe someone here can explain what exactly is this "flashing" look. Never heard about this. Thanks Alex

Hi dudes, has somebody experience with that cam? Ikonoskop A-Cam SP-16? Seen on http://www.wittner-kinotechnik.de. Maybe it's a fair price? Maybe somebody knows something about this sugar? best regards alex

ORWO is an old East German Brand. They produce only b/w film. It's good and cheap. check out this link: www.filmotec.de This is the homepage from the manufacturer. There is a english version of this site. cheers, alex

Hi Jaan, the stock you mean is called FOMAPAN R, it comes from Czech Republik but is only an b/w reversal stock. Check out this site http://www.andecfilm.de. Maybe the manufacturer has an homepage too?! Best Regards, Alex

When I underrate a film do I have to pull the material during the development about the factor (maybe 1 stop etc.) I underrate it? Is it right, that a underrating means an overexposure and an overrating means an underexposure? Is it right, that under/overrating means, that I expose a stock in f-stop steps to get the next/undernext ASA value? Cheers, Alex

Sorry, I never shoot with this stock, but I think a lot of east german movies were shot on this material and they look really good. I know a few filmstudents who shot on ORWO, but I don't really know much about this stock, but for this price maybe I shoot something in future..... cheers, alex

Hi, ORWO is an old East German Brand. They produce only b/w film. It's good and cheap. check out this link: www.filmotec.de This is the homepage from the manufacturer. There is a english version of this site. cheers, alex