Saturday, September 4, 2010

New production underway

A week or so ago I shot a bunch of footage for the band Groom's new music video.

The above image is from the last shot of the day. Since I was the only crew member on the shoot, mounting the camera was the only opportunity to take some stills.

Its coming together pretty well despite the fact that its missing from one band member couldn't make the video shoot. It remains to be seen if we will shoot inserts of that member, but at this stage its doubtful.

I'm regrading the footage to a grainy 16mm style high contrast black & white as I'm very fond of the old Andy Warhol Factory look. Its looking OK. I've a hell of a lot more work to do on the grade, but I'll do that once I get picture lock.

I decided on this shoot to shoot with my HV30/Letus35 rig and also use the Canon T1i HDSLR and combine the footage. I often use music videos as an opportunity to experiment & this one is no exception.
I gotta admit, I MUCH prefer the HDV footage to the HDSLR's despite it being the posterboy for digital filmmaking right now. So much so DOF adapters are being considered obsolete in certain circles, which is bollix if you ask me.
The Pro Res 422 workflow from tape is so much better than that of Canon's H.264 files (which I did upres to 422 using MPEG Streamclip). They sit on the timeline better and render filters faster.

Also, the big thing is that they LOOK better too. The HDSLR footage looks far to crisp and clean to which I've added a layer of gaussian blur to soften it up a tad.
It worked on the last video for Remedy For My Soul but does not have the warmth that I'm looking for for this particular project.

There, I've said it. I prefer DOF adapters to HDSLR.*

Not much else to say other than you can check out the bands music on their Bandcamp page.
Look out for the song, This Golden Age, as thats the song I'm doing the video for.





*I may of course change my mind after I use a camera with more manual controls than the T1i

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