Matt Workman
Well-known member
Artist: Fabolous feat. Jay-Z
Song: When the Money Goes
Record Label: Island Def Jam
Director: Parris - www.goreela.com
DP: Matt Workman - www.mattworkman.com
Photo/5DMKII: Diana Levine - www.dianalevine.com
Production for this video was back in mid-July 2009 and it was just released and premiered on MTV Jams as "Jam of the Week" on Monday I believe. There are a couple low quality web versions floating around on the net but here is a link to a slightly better quicktime.
Video Link - Quicktime
www.mattworkman.com/dp-v4/work/fabolous-jayz.html
Video Link - World Star Hip Hop
http://www.worldstarhiphop.com/videos/video.php?v=wshh3CQUK7k54i3U2b40
Set Photos
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2084025&id=3702694
We shot the video with the RED B17 with the Nikon mount. Mostly Zeiss ZF primes but I like the Nikon 135mm f2 a lot as well. We also shot B-CAM with the Canon 5D Mark II. Mostly the inserts and quick cut-aways.
I used a 1/4 and 1/2 BPM which is subtle but adds a little glow to some of the shots.
Principal photography was shot in one very long day. Prison, Condo, Restaurant, Exterior. Then I was away on a shoot in Texas when Jay-Z decided he wanted to make a cameo and my AC shot the intro scene. The very first shots of the buildings are actually HVX200 with the FPS hack, which explains the extra sensitivity.
It was a very interesting test to see the difference between the 5D and the RED on the same exact scene with the same lighting. The 5D has a very nice in-camera look, but once you shoot it you obviously don't have the ability with the REDRAW to tweak or shift the colors.
We shot under a lot of natural light in the prison, so super green florescent lighting and on the RED is was pure green. The 5D however balanced it out pretty well and rendered some decent skin tones. This is with both set at 3200k.
A lot of the lighting was natural just because of the time constraints but we mainly filled in with kinos and a 1x1 litepanel. No time to tie-in or really augment any of the existing lighting unfortunately.
The RED at 800 ISO f1.3 is pretty grainy compared to the 5D 3200-5000 ISO f2.8. Obviously there is a time and place to use the different systems but you can see a good comparison in the last scene where Fab is hugging his girlfriend. The first time you see them on the deck its the RED, the last shot however is the 5DMKII.
I've done about 3-4 videos with the RED and MKII as b-cam its basically boiled down to using the RED for scenes we can light properly and that have a lot of camera movement. Almost everything else we use the 5D, which includeds inserts, establishing shots, timelapse, b-roll type stuff. Its so much faster to mover around with it and I use the indie-slider with mine and its makes for some quick and interesting setups. My favorite is using the slider right on the ground like a hi-hat.
Anyway, hope you enjoy it. I know its in B/W so you can't compare colors. :furious3:
Later,
Matt
