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"Heart of Perception" Low budget short, My first go with the R1 MX

Shervin Mandgaryan

Shervin Mandgaryan

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The second film I shot and edited. Shot with the R1 MX & Zeiss CP 2's. Edited on FCP7, graded on baselight. I went a little extreme on the ASA because we didn't have access to 4x5.6 ND filters, 4x4's don't work so well on wide lenses so I decided to keep it low ASA through out. A lesson I have definitely learned for next time I do anything in an uncontrollable environment when you can't really do much. Hope you guys enjoy, any feedback would be lovely. https://vimeo.com/40381051
 
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Beautiful. :)

I enjoyed those handheld shots and the score. Keep up the good work, Shervin.
 
I personally don't like the handheld shots, but other than that I loved it.
Good story, good acting/directing, good cinematography, good editing, good grading, good score and foley sound.
Did I missed anything?
 
Handheld is fairly subjective; in this case, even if you don't like it, it really ties in to the POV when the girl is looking through the stills camera (not sure if that was intentional or not.)

Might have been a little too subtle with the wine/voices and pigeon (was that improv, or did you actually script the burying?) I'm kind of biased, as I recognized all of those places (Tdot represent!), but yeah, I thought it was pretty decent. Particularly the foley, score, and homeless guy.
 
Bob Gundu said:
bad link?
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Vimeo is giving me some problems. I've re uploaded the original file. Should be active soon.

Mike P. said:
Handheld is fairly subjective; in this case, even if you don't like it, it really ties in to the POV when the girl is looking through the stills camera (not sure if that was intentional or not.)

Might have been a little too subtle with the wine/voices and pigeon (was that improv, or did you actually script the burying?) I'm kind of biased, as I recognized all of those places (Tdot represent!), but yeah, I thought it was pretty decent. Particularly the foley, score, and homeless guy.
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The POV was intentional. Time restraints for release didn't allow me to superimpose a camera 'viewfinder' on those shots to make it more like a camera.

We had incredible luck and a good crowd control brigade to make it seem as if we were allowed to shoot in Kensington Market. We only had permits for the two storefronts we had the camera table set up at. Everything else was wilderness. The editing makes it all seem cohesive, but there were so many takes where we had to stop because there was music blaring or people were interfering with the scene. We had permits for everywhere else though.

Most of this script had all the movements and the pigeon scene. The actor and actress did an incredible job with improving the cafe scene and the final scene (The poem was actually written by the actor during production).

The script was only 6 pages long, and the end product turned out to be 15 minutes.

Stefan Antonescu said:
Beautiful. :)

I enjoyed those handheld shots and the score. Keep up the good work, Shervin.
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Thanks Stefan!
 
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Shervin Mandgaryan said:
Time restraints for release didn't allow me to superimpose a camera 'viewfinder' on those shots to make it more like a camera.
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Cool. Personally, I would leave out the viewfinder overlay... It looks great the way it is (shallower DOF, more colour... in other words, differentiated enough from the regular stuff to stand out.)
 
I think the style really makes the story come alive. Great editing. Keep it up!
The NDs would probably help to hold highlight detail.
Very inspiring!
Sam
 
What's great is that you can just keep going. You've created some great characters, but you can tell that the story is just starting. I say shoot another hour and try to get distribution.
You could shoot the back story with the newer coat!
Go for it.
Sam
 
Sam Edwards said:
The NDs would probably help to hold highlight detail.
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That's my biggest regret, but something that I'll make sure I've got covered next time. I really didn't do much homework in knowing the risks of working with the MX sensor in the ranges of ISO 100-320.
 
Shervin Mandgaryan said:
That's my biggest regret, but something that I'll make sure I've got covered next time. I really didn't do much homework in knowing the risks of working with the MX sensor in the ranges of ISO 100-320.
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Hey Shervin,
Highlight detail and shakiness only really matter to nerds like us. The important thing is that you told your story well and it was worth telling. Keep up the good work.
 
Sam Edwards said:
Hey Shervin,
Highlight detail and shakiness only really matter to nerds like us. The important thing is that you told your story well and it was worth telling. Keep up the good work.
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Thanks again Sam, I appreciate the comments.

Anyone else? I need some feedback from some more people if possible!
 
Pardon my ignorance, but what's wrong with shooting at a low ASA? I akways thought that you shoot at as a low a ASA setting as possible before under-exposing to get the cleanest image? Am I missing something? Is this just with RED or even DSLR's, C300, F3, etc?

Did some googling but couldn't really find an answer...links are much appreciated! :-)

BTW, reaaally wonderful short! I especially love the performance given by the father.
 
A bit different woking with RAW in RED. Best to keep at 800 ISO and expose the histogram to the right without clipping. Bring exposure down in Redcine-X.


Stephen Brock said:
Pardon my ignorance, but what's wrong with shooting at a low ASA? I akways thought that you shoot at as a low a ASA setting as possible before under-exposing to get the cleanest image? Am I missing something? Is this just with RED or even DSLR's, C300, F3, etc?

Did some googling but couldn't really find an answer...links are much appreciated! :-)

BTW, reaaally wonderful short! I especially love the performance given by the father.
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