DoP’d on this promo for Welterwerk Filmkompani, feedback wanted! :)

[Christian Ekrem]

https://vimeo.com/43188144

Shot on a hacked GH2, with vintage lenses... What do you think?


Description from vimeo:

This shortfilm is produced by Welterwerk Filmkompani, a new small filmproduction company based in Oslo. We make musicvideos, shortfilms and commercials. CONTACT US: post@welterwerk.no LIKE US: facebook.com/welterwerk
Directed by ERLEND WESTNES
DOP CHRISTIAN EKREM
Edit and grading ERLEND WESTNES
Post effects and 3d modeling EIVIND JACOBSEN
Makeup artist GRETE SKJÆVELAND
CAST
Machinist LASSE VALDAL
Girl YVONNE / TEAM
Boy ALEKSANDER M. TANGEN / TEAM
Music: SIRIUSMO - NIGHTS OFF
THANKS
Za, Margrethe, TEAMMODELS, UiO and Khang Vinh Tran.

[Bob Gundu]

Looks great. I dig the song too. But I will warn you... The GH2 will not get much fanfare here on this forum.

[Jon Carr]

I liked it, had a cool concept. The only thing I would say that I did not like was, the girl's face did a complete 180 on looks.

[Paramon Ivanovich]

What do you think?

I think it's fantastic, and i also think that to have a fancy camera - is nice, but not necessary

[Peter Dmitriyev]

look amazing to me. tad underlit at times but considering this gh2 i would say at minimum looked f3 or c300 or something..

[Christian Ekrem]

Thanks, I really appreciate your feedback. Didn’t realize you replied till just now, forgot to turn on notifications for the thread. I agree on the underlighting at the dinner sequence, it worked but just barely. (blew the fuses in the old house, and ended up using half the lighting package... :P)

[Peter Dmitriyev]

Thanks, I really appreciate your feedback. Didn’t realize you replied till just now, forgot to turn on notifications for the thread. I agree on the underlighting at the dinner sequence, it worked but just barely. (blew the fuses in the old house, and ended up using half the lighting package... :P)

yeah no prob. the song is amazing too. not even into that type of stuff but it rules. how did you light the closeups of the kitchen dinner scenes, very soft and nice was it china balls or what

[Christian Ekrem]

Yeah, I like it! We actually found the song that matched our video the most, and got rights for it later, hehe. I lit the closeup with a softbox (in addition to the warm "fake sun" outside the window that hits her hair in the wide shots as well). :)

[Harry Lipnick]

Christian-
Interested as to what lenses you used on this. I'm looking for a similar look ("soft" for lack of a better word at the moment) on a project I'm shooting this fall. Would love to hear which glass you chose and any sort of experience you can share. Thanks!

-Harry

[Bob Gundu]

From the Personal-View site:
http://personal-view.com/talks/discu...-video#Item_11


Thanks a lot, guys! Wouldn’t have been possible without the hack, so I owe you many thanks!

Pentacon 50mm f1.8 and 29mm f2.8 for the interiors with the computer guy, pretty much asahi super-takumar 50mm f1.4 for the rest. (The latter usually @ f2.8, wide open it's too smooth). I also used a (modern) lumix 7-14mm and a tokina 11-16, those two took a lot of grading to come close to the rest! Actually there was almost no grading besides the wide angle shots... :) Yeah, and we blew a few fuses on the house where they ate (or where going to eat), so those shots were brightened a bit in post (luckily the fuse powering our fake sun didn't break:) )

Christian-
Interested as to what lenses you used on this. I'm looking for a similar look ("soft" for lack of a better word at the moment) on a project I'm shooting this fall. Would love to hear which glass you chose and any sort of experience you can share. Thanks!

-Harry