Alex Haspel

thanks a lot guys. the camera was an older sony 2/3" dvcam one, DXC D30P i think. and the lens was an also older fujinon 5,5 - 47mm eng lens equipped with a bartech follow focus device and an m1 motor. lighting wise it was (chronological) .)a 2ft two bank on a polecat rigged at the ceiling, at the door, where he enters the flat .)the tablelamp practical (slightly ND'ed)on the table, where the first two polaroids are lying .)a dedo for the polaroids lying on the kitchen floor .)another 2ft twobank rigged above the first tv set with a polecat .)2 300w tungsten pars from above in the hallway through small frames with half diffusion, some nd and CTB i think. (to bee seen above, in picture number 3) .)one 500w rifa light for the magazine, polaroid beswides it and the table. and also a dedo kicker for the table. .)another 2ft zwobank for the last 3 polaroids on the floor, just before she gets the camera .)and another 500w rifalight and a dedo kicker from the left for the couple sitting on the couch. and as for the software used for tracking, i'll ask the postpro guys, since i really don't have a clue about those things :) thanks again, bye

i honestly don't know how the tracking was exactly acomplished. as far as i know, our postproduction wizards used some 3d program to do a 3 dimensional tracking if i understood this right. thanks a lot! i even was a bit involved in the concept this time. the (first time) director wanted to it all with polaroids and it was my idea to put band in tv sets, a magazine and a flyer instead. (i'm tapping my shoulder right now :) ) i'm really glad to hear that. makes it was worth the pain ! you're absolutely right with your ciritique. the camera stays too long on some of the polaroids. but we decided to not move the camera or do cut's within the polaroids, since the photo-feeling would most likely have been lost. some things like her sitting around sadly or the mirror thing for example should have been split into more shots and more polaroids, but then the postpro would have been significantly longer and we most like would'nt have made it in time. actually the fedex guy was already waiting in our hallway as we exported the master :) !! peter and sebastian already did wonders even without any more polaroids to track and key, they did the whole postproduction in 4 days!

hi i participated at this "i dig incubus" music video contest with some friends.. this is a contest where fans make the band a music video for free, with provided greenscreen material of the band, or self shot material, or both. this is our contestant: and here are the others: http://youtube.com/groups_layout?name=idigincubus the budget was a few hundred bucks, i got an easyrig and remote focus for barely nothing from a befriended steadicam operator, the camera for free from a befriended production company and the rest was spent on lights. the main shot in the flat was a long one, 4:20 trough the whole song and flat. it was supposed to look handheld, since it would have a more voyeristic feel to it. but unfortunately my back was hurting terrible that time because i must have had a pulled muscle or something, so the shot is sometimes shakier than i wanted it to be. if you listen real closely you can still hear me screaming in pain as the camera goes up from the polaroids on the floor ;) we shot on the 4th, 5th and 7th of january and had quite a rushed postproduction since we had to send it off on the 12th in order to arrive in the us in time. so there are still some rough edges in it compositing wise, but nothing too tragic as i think. looking forward to opinions, alex oh, and here are some pictures from shooting..

if you shoot with a video camera that is only capable of 25fps or 50i and you add the slowmotion in post, then no. if you shoot with a video camera capable of variable frame rates like the hvx200/varicam/etc then you have to compensate for the exposure loss one way or another. you could do this opening the iris, adding more light or using digital gain.

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I think this was discussed in the "children of men" thread in this subforum. You can also see some pictures here: the main site with images picture 1 of the car rig picture 2 of the car rig And as for the topic discussed: I have barely seen any movies this year, only "Borat", "Children of men" and "Ainoa" (an austrian low budget indypendent film on which some friends of mine worked unpaid. s16 blow up. Looked really good, very nicely shot, great art direction, but rather bad script and directing in my opinion) But i think i don't need to see any more movies to say that "children of men" is my personal favourite of 2006. Couldn't really get any better in my book. I absolutely loved the shot of Clive Owen as he driving in Michael Caine's Citroen CX for the first time, the one with the sun down on the horizon giving him a kicker interupted by passing trees.

well, that's your loss. (assuming you ment 'experimental')

thanks. all the tennis stuff was shot with an abc light crane 100 and abc product's smallest remotehead, the discontinued merlin.

come on guys, i hope it isn't really 1 reply - bad .. (just bumping this shamelessly)

looks like good old stop motion to me...

thanks a bunch. this was shot with a xlh1.. the old man at the hotel room doors was lit with two mini flo's right above the doors, and him sitting on the table with 2 575w fresnels outside the windows and a kinoflo (cant remember the size) on the man...

anf for anyone who's too lazy for downloading, here is it on youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fEkiyoJpXGs in quite bad quality of course.

Hi. Since my paid work consists of mostly AC'ing for documentary stuff, this reel is put together from almost exclusively low- and no-budget student film projects. download it here: http://rapidshare.com/files/7967720/testrender3.wmv.html (this is a bit bothersome, but i haven't got any webspace yet. scroll down on the page appearing, and click "free".) i hope some of you are still going to download it :) any opinions are highly welcome, i don't really like editing and i don't think i'm too good at it... thanks a lot in advance, alex

this looks like a movie i hate to watch but probably love to shoot.

digital isn't always easier. colleagues (and friends) of mine are shooting in the country of oman right now. cold, wet caves and hot and sandy exteriours. the first camera has already died, and since there is hardly any equipment available down there, they had to have someone fly in with a replacement camera. 16mm would be cheaper already.. :P on a sidenote: guess what 2 1,2kw par hmi's cost in oman ... GUESS THEN SCROLL DOWN 300 euros a day! but considering that you get 2 lamps and 2 electricians for that money.... they really won't let those lamps out without one electrician per lamp!

behind the scenes material from a mosic video shoot i Dop'ed in november: seems like he was happy about the wrap.

the dsr 500 is pretty sensitive, something around 2000lux at T11, wich equals about 800asa

it was shot nice, surely good craftmanship. but still it was just as generic and completely free of new ideas as the song was. brr... modern chart musik makes me shudder.

a litttle update.. you can now hear the previously mentioned band here: www.myspace.com/deinemutteroida

i had good experiences with sunshades, they're usable for light rain, and also for sun protection in jibarm-caused high altitudes... sorry for the highly off-topic post.

anybody's japanese good enough to say what lens mount it's going to have?

i also remeber one with her walking on the sidewalk, with blurry pedestrians dashing by...

i remember seeing this in "requiem for a dream", really good movie by the way....

i guess i'm too much of a coward for this kind of operation. well, my eyes are not completely unimportant for the job i'm aspiring. for video, i usually leave the glasses on, except in sweaty enviroments, where they tend to ... don't know the english term.. where humidity settles down on them. yes, very eloquent. and for shooting film i usually make myself a holder out of gaffer tape for my glasses somewhere on the camera's body. just a little loop where i can slip the temple in. looks rather stupid, but is very practical.

i'd say no, unless it's a green kicker.