Matt Workman
Well-known member
Production: Ludacris "KO"
Director: Parris
DP: Matt Workman
Photo: Diana Levine
***UPDATE****
The Ludacris video is out now. You can see a HQ quicktime on my website under music videos: http://www.mattworkman.com
Or on Vimeo, from its premiere on BET:106&Park, with Ludacris talking about the filming etc. Pretty cool. http://www.vimeo.com/1857409
***UPDATE***
Set Photos:
http://www.dianalevine.com/events/20080731-ludacris/luda-fullgallery/index.html
Just wrapped a two day music video in Las Vegas for Ludacris. We shot with RED #81x from www.red4kla.com with Matt Garrett as our AC/DIT. Great package, fully recommend it.
We had a 1 ton truck and a Fisher11 from JR Lighting, who are really great to work with and have some of the nicest kept trucks I've seen. We shot Standard Speed Zeiss Primes, which are great but I'm definitely getting a 18-80 Optimo for anything else Hip Hop related.
This was my first RED shoot and everything suited me and the shoot just fine. I like the 8 gig cards because it makes the production's pace a little less crazy than with video where we are constantly rolling. And then situations where we were more run and gun we just used the 320 gig hard drive.
I believe we only shot about 300 gigs of footage, which was way less than I had planned for. People were saying 1 terabyte etc. Maybe for a rock video.
Notes:
- My biggest gripe is not having a traditional extension viewfinder and leveler. The LCD and ViewFinder are great but big moves and pans/tilts get unwieldy quickely. I jokingly suggested a helmet with the viewfinder attached to it wirelessly. If you are listening Jim. :tongue:
- The color temperature being natively 5000k was interesting. We shot around 4300k under tungsten, Matt said build 15 introduced a noticable amount of grain if we went to 3200k. We are probably doing a 2k proxy transcode to PRORES 1080, because of time. So our ColorTemp is pretty much baked in.
- Having a viewfinder, LCD, and monitor out all going at once is great. Much easier than with a F900 or Varicam. Didn't realize there is a safey zone in the VF showing more than the taking frame, that is really great.
- All of the operator functions like focus assist 2x, exposure thermal/predator mode, sharpness, etc. are really great though I did constantly bump into them by accident. Mostly my fault I suppose.
Overall great experience and I'm planning on using the RED on all of my projects I can't get 35mm on.
Cheers,
Matt
PS: I'll hopefully be able to share a 720p version of the video when its out. At the least at Vimeo one.
we will work together eventually!
