"Thread" film test for indie film project

[Curran Giddens]

http://www.socialdistancefilms.com/lonely.mov

Just having some fun experimenting.... with no budget and some first time actors.

 

[Neil Larson]

I really like the look. What was your workflow?

 

[Sidney L. Plaut]

i liked it. really liked the photography too. and cool looking actors!
thats what making film is all about - just having fun and doing it.

 

[Curran Giddens]

Lenses:

50mm Zeiss Ultra Prime


Workflow:

L&T > edit native R3D in Final Cut Studio.

adjusted curves in Color.

exported via Compressor.

 

[Andrew Wilding]

Wow - that looked stunning. How did you light the car interior?

 

[Zac C]

Tom Lowe showed this to me, had it on his Mac, was the cinematographer on my latest film... its a very interesting piece, even if a test... I personally loved it

EDIT: just watched it again, and i see its been edited into a story... I saw mostly graded raw footage.

 

[Steve Sherrick]

Curran, nice stuff! Liked the grade too. I believe this is the same project Chris and I had been discussing a while back. Did you guys shoot more? Originally there were going to be some additional scenes.

Are you on one of the new Mac Pros? Are the native QTs playing smooth? I have super fast RAID but my Mac Pro I think is the limiting factor for being unable to play native QT without dropping frames. It's a 2.8 Quad Core with 16GB RAM.

 

[Curran Giddens]

Wow - that looked stunning. How did you light the car interior?

All natural lighting. Although we did use a bounce card for a couple shots. Gotta make do with whatever you can when you don't have any money.

Tom Lowe showed this to me, had it on his Mac, was the cinematographer on my latest film...

Yup. Tom is an excellent cinematographer.

Curran, nice stuff! Liked the grade too. I believe this is the same project Chris and I had been discussing a while back. Did you guys shoot more? Originally there were going to be some additional scenes.

Chris has a bunch of different scripts in various stages of completion. But there was no script for this one. These scenes were all from the second weekend that we shot.

Are you on one of the new Mac Pros? Are the native QTs playing smooth? I have super fast RAID but my Mac Pro I think is the limiting factor for being unable to play native QT without dropping frames. It's a 2.8 Quad Core with 16GB RAM.

Chris did all the editing / grading on his older Mac Pro. Definitely not one of the new ones. And no, the QTs did not play very smooth.

 

[Jacob_Ross]

nice looking footy man. excellent compositions and color grade. INT of the car looked really well lit for not being well lit. lol

 

[Zac C]

Yup. Tom is an excellent cinematographer.
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You can say that again, everyshot, didn't need to ask anything changed... just perfect... for both these things I've seen, your clip, and my short:sifone:

 

[Murat Civcik]

very impressive footage, i feel cinematography , nice work