One Hit Wonder spec

[Michael Morlan]

Hi all,

My first RED One shoot was two spec webisodes on a micro-micro budget. Everyone donated their time and tools. "One Hit Wonder" is a comedy about a down-and-out lounge singer who makes his real living as a hit man.

These stills are a best-light by our colorist, Omar Godinez. No curves added. Creative grading work will follow after editorial. Notice the heavy blue noise in the second-to-last shot. This was corrected from very yellow practical flouros in the hotel hallway.

 

[LighthouseMEdia]

Holy blue channel noise batman.

 

[Jannard]

These look terrific. As for the noisy shot... we'll give you more to work with in Build 16.

Jim

 

[Steve Sherrick]

I'm a bit perplexed. Time for me to do more indoor lighting tests. Shots 3,5,6,7 are really rough. How bad were the practicals?

Looking forward to Build 16 Jim.

 

[jimhare]

Are these JPEG artefacts in shot 6-7 or do the RAW images look the same?

 

[Kenn Michael]

Most likely JPEG artifacts... RAW stuff is always smooth...

unless it's noisy...

ahhhhhhh, build 16.

 

[jbeale]

The stills are neat to see but if you will pardon me saying so, it could be presented in better quality. Note that is one single JPEG which is 1300 x 5920 pixels in size. It shows significant JPEG edge-ringing artifacts on every frame, on my monitor at least.

 

[Dave Cooper]

They all look like they were upsized.

 

[Gunleik Groven]

Great shots!

Gunleik

 

[Craig W. Bickerstaff]

I really like the shot in the alley myself.

 

[Stephen Williams]

Hi Micheal,

What lenses did you use?

Stephen

 

[Michael Morlan]

Hi guys,

Let me work out a better version of the stills to reduce compression artifacts. The single uploaded image went through a couple jpg iterations. Perhaps I'll post .dpx or .tif versions for a short time.

This was shot with Zeiss T1.3 18,24,35,50,85mm.

Looking forward to build 16.

Michael

 

[Steve Sherrick]

Are you sure these are mostly JPEG artifacts?

I look forward to checking out the high res stills?

 

[Michael Morlan]

Are you sure these are mostly JPEG artifacts?

Absolutely. I can see the increase in artifacts between jpg generations... now that I'm looking.

Michael