Wednesday 25 November 2009
Tuesday 10 November 2009
Sunday 8 November 2009
Latest Screen Tests
Pics from the latest screen tests are now available here. Just been having a look around on youtube and there are quite a few useful videos on lighting that are maybe a lil easier than just reading text in a book.
Also - this pic turned out quite cool:
Dolly Zoom
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y48R6-iIYHs
have a look at this... it's a technique I'm really keen on using.
A x
have a look at this... it's a technique I'm really keen on using.
A x
Saturday 7 November 2009
I've uploaded everything from our location scouting yesterday here. Am also making a quick overlay on google earth if anyone wants to see where we were. Will email it to everyone later.
Thursday 5 November 2009
True Blood Opening Titles
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kTQzVFZ68z8
The opening titles for True Blood... I think they are the best titles I've ever seen on a TV series, and I think there's a few ideas we can take from them. I really like the fast cuts that they use, for instance the sudden cut to the boys mouth when he's eating. Also the end 5 seconds are really effective- the quick cutting and blurry, film-like shots look brilliant. This maybe something we could take some inspiration from?
Wednesday 4 November 2009
Stylistic Ideas
Just been looking through a few films for ideas or how they did things that we want to do.
First film is 300, which basically seems to over-expose loads of the shots, so a lot of the background, foreground, or even parts of the actors are very white. They also seem to have some crazy high contrast ratios/really intense S curves.
Next ther
e's old
wilson from Castaway, as an example of how to add personality to an inanimate object (Archie...). Just a couple different shots of him that i mentioned before, how he starts off as really clean and plain and boring and through Tom Hanks customising him, he gains a whole personality of his own.
Collateral I really liked because it takes two characters and completley isolates them. It seems to achieve this partially through the music used, but also through the way a lot of the film is shot with objects obscuring the actors faces (reflections on the window in the first shot, or part of the cab in the second). It was also shot almost entirley on digital rather than film, to achieve a cold look. All face shots are also done at high zoom, to give a narrow depth of field.
Lastly, there's the trippy feel from Fear and Loathing. Apart from all the drugs used, they seem to achieve this partially through using an old film look, but also through using loads of dutch angles on the camera. I cant take screen shots of it, but the camera also bounces around a lot, as though its not mounted on anything. Similar to 300, they seem to use really high saturation and bright back-lighting.
Quite a few more movie stills up on the photobucket site here.
First film is 300, which basically seems to over-expose loads of the shots, so a lot of the background, foreground, or even parts of the actors are very white. They also seem to have some crazy high contrast ratios/really intense S curves.Next ther
e's old wilson from Castaway, as an example of how to add personality to an inanimate object (Archie...). Just a couple different shots of him that i mentioned before, how he starts off as really clean and plain and boring and through Tom Hanks customising him, he gains a whole personality of his own.Collateral I really liked because it takes two characters and completley isolates them. It seems to achieve this partially through the music used, but also through the way a lot of the film is shot with objects obscuring the actors faces (reflections on the window in the first shot, or part of the cab in the second). It was also shot almost entirley on digital rather than film, to achieve a cold look. All face shots are also done at high zoom, to give a narrow depth of field.Lastly, there's the trippy feel from Fear and Loathing. Apart from all the drugs used, they seem to achieve this partially through using an old film look, but also through using loads of dutch angles on the camera. I cant take screen shots of it, but the camera also bounces around a lot, as though its not mounted on anything. Similar to 300, they seem to use really high saturation and bright back-lighting.Quite a few more movie stills up on the photobucket site here.
Dolly?
A photo of my friend I randomly found on facebook. I like how it's overexposed and (I think) was taken with a disposable camera; the rawness of the colours is really effective. It made me think of Dolly... thoughts? A x
Tuesday 3 November 2009
More South Downs Pics
Just linking a few more south downs pics that I mentioned today, a couple showing the sea in the background and one I messed about in photoshop with (obviously way more than we would want to, but just as a stylistic direction).
Really nice lighting feel in the first two pics. Both taken in November 2007. (Click em to make them bigger!)
Cant remember what I did to this last one and its way too intense, but an idea to think about in terms of how we want the final thing to look.
Really nice lighting feel in the first two pics. Both taken in November 2007. (Click em to make them bigger!)
Cant remember what I did to this last one and its way too intense, but an idea to think about in terms of how we want the final thing to look.
Camera manual download
Hi men,
I've downloaded the DSR 570 manual from here: http://www.retrevo.com/support/Sony-DSR-570-Camcorders-manual/id/2090dj299/t/2/ if anyone fancies looking at it.
I've been going through all the things that came up to day and have noted down all the solutions so next time we shoot we should be able to set up even quicker :)
A x
I've downloaded the DSR 570 manual from here: http://www.retrevo.com/support/Sony-DSR-570-Camcorders-manual/id/2090dj299/t/2/ if anyone fancies looking at it.
I've been going through all the things that came up to day and have noted down all the solutions so next time we shoot we should be able to set up even quicker :)
A x
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