Nick Mulder Posted April 9, 2008 Share Posted April 9, 2008 Hiya, I was DOP on this vid - Interested to hear feedback re the lighting and camera work ... As per usual - youtube does it no justice, but you get the idea... Shot over 48 hours at Liams family home in Auckland, NZ - two person crew, Director Marc Swadel and myself, make up was there for about 8 hours or so of the first day but I think the boredom set in for her and she left - don't blame her, was a bit of a killer shoot with lots more footage shot than made the final cut - think trampolines at 60fps and a heap of production design issues to be solved as we went along... Jarrod the doppelganger actor/character helped out with a bunch of lifting also, an editor by trade - top notch work ;) Shot on Plus-X neg stock and 7201 on Bolex cameras then printed to positive for editing on a intercine flatbed then simply projected on a wall and captured in video for distribution. The segment near the end was stills shot off my iMac screen - not sure if they cut so well in with the rest of the footage due to the contrast and wotnot... The lighting was all borrowed from the stage/theatre company I work for on occasion - couple of 2K fresnels and some 1K profile lamps on a dimmer for all the funky cuts and fades you see here and there - we used a hazer for the keyhole shots. The Bolexes were an SB found left on a window sill as a family heirloom for 20 years and an EL from Isreal/MOSSAD (as far as we can tell) with hebrew engravings and weird MilSpec AV/hall effect sensors on it ... not to mention and a gallon or two of salt water in the lens If you didn't spot it David Lynchs Eraserhead and German expressionism was a major influence, at least on our accents during the shoot - another influence was hairs in the gate, scratchy footage, jumpy cuts and mistimed claw action etc... Marc did a great job dragging the print through the gutter as you can see 2000 word essays please - danke :lol: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Will Earl Posted April 10, 2008 Share Posted April 10, 2008 Nice work. I caught the video for 'Second Chance' in flight from Wellington to Auckland recently - you didn't have anything to do with that by chance? I don't really have much to say, it all looks pretty good. You sure youtube isn't making it look better than it actually is? ^_^ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nick Mulder Posted April 10, 2008 Author Share Posted April 10, 2008 (edited) Nice work. I caught the video for 'Second Chance' in flight from Wellington to Auckland recently - you didn't have anything to do with that by chance? I don't really have much to say, it all looks pretty good. You sure youtube isn't making it look better than it actually is? ^_^ naw, nought to do with that one, but I know how it was done - it was actually this video that Liam and I were talking about when he learned I was a bit of a camera nerd (and vice versa as Liam likes to take a nice snap here and there also). ... the Better to Be vid pretty much came to be a month or so later ;) Edited April 10, 2008 by Nick Mulder Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xavier Plaza Posted April 11, 2008 Share Posted April 11, 2008 Awesome work total refreshing "vintage", it looks great... This kind of work it's so unique because today almost everybody wants a "High def" style, awesome lenses, all that "clean" image and then you see this organic beautiful work, too much for me jajaja :lol: ... Congratulations, for me you do a refreshing work... BTW is ironic because i love all that kind of stuff but with your video you make me feel shame for all that "clean" images jajaja, perhaps i feel nostalgic ... :huh: Xavier Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xavier Plaza Posted April 11, 2008 Share Posted April 11, 2008 BTW what was your camera and lenses...? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nick Mulder Posted April 11, 2008 Author Share Posted April 11, 2008 The Bolexes were an SB found left on a window sill as a family heirloom for 20 years and an EL from Isreal/MOSSAD (as far as we can tell) with hebrew engravings and weird MilSpec AV/hall effect sensors on it ... not to mention and a gallon or two of salt water in the lens I used the preset Switars - 10mm 26mm 75mm 150mm and the PTL Zoom for some odd focal length requirements Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Premium Member Damien Bhatti Posted April 12, 2008 Premium Member Share Posted April 12, 2008 Hey Nick, I really liked the shot that was about 31 seconds in. The perspective and all was great, and I could see a glimpse just for a moment of a whole series of ideas and places you could push it. But I love that condensed feeling you evoke in the room. and when he goes into the bed after that! ha!. Superman vacuum nightscape feeling - I think if you really had some nice "ob=jet d'art," some little peculiar curiosities in the room it would have really sung out and complimented the aesthetic - something like; Oddities ok, so maybe thats too jabberwockey but you can see where i am going. not sure about the close up of the red flowers - because of that white strip of building?/ in the background, just seemed to visually jar for me. maybe have the little time lapse montages all throughout?/ it seems to really lend itself to the music. Actually the strange photographic warpness that was happening at the end was really interesting. I have been trying to play around with a similar effect. What colour filmstock was it?/ i like it !- nice-nice /thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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