Epic Music Video for DZ Deathrays

[Tristan Houghton]

So here it is, finally finished!

Shot on a skeleton crew of myself, 1 camera assistant and 4 talent.

Used two dido's and 1 light panel, other then that torches and FLARES! hahaha

Shot on Epic using a set of super speeds, mostly shot at f1.8

Edit done at alt vfx here in Brisbane and onlined by myself. Wanted to finish with a relatively clean aesthetic so keep the grade pretty similar to what was shot, only needed a bit of colour balance on the flare scenes.

https://vimeo.com/39986392
password : deathrays.

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Enjoy, feedback welcomed! :)


p.s watch in HD

[Josh Beadle]

Angry white kids

[Tristan Houghton]

You know it! hahaha

[Dominik Muench]

nice job dude, go the flare action ^^

[Tristan Houghton]

Cheers bro!

[Will Keir]

Nice. Did you get a lot of noise in your footage that you had to clean up? Even full open, I'm sure the purple fuzzies were all over your viewfinder. In the final video I can't really notice any obvious noise despite how dark almost every scene was. This is a successful example of shooting with ambient light at dark. Your histogram was most always pushed way left, correct?

[Will Keir]

Looked like a fun shoot. Some of that was 5k 120fps or 2k 300 fps?

[Tristan Houghton]

Thanks Will!

Very little to no noise (super impressed), I exposed at 800 iso and utilised what available light was around and shot smartly with it. I really didn't want to push the iso at all because I wanted clean blacks. No noise reduction was used.

I did a few tests before the shoot which also helped me work out what practical lighting I could use to get a sufficient key from.

There's one shot in there that I bumped up a bit and then I noticed the noise creeping in but was still acceptable :)

I also actually added a fraction of monochromatic grain to give it a ever so slightly grunge feel to it.

Yeah Histogram was well left! Hahaha

[Will Keir]

Well left and RED bar peeking too? I'm impressed you kept the blacks so clean. Looking forward to some candle/low light tests myself this week.

Keep up the good work.

[Tristan Houghton]

Thanks mate, will do now I have my own! Hahaha, wohoooo