Bad RED footage...

[Peter McCully]

Remember that cinematography has been making and breaking it's own rules for a hundred ywers before there was Red. Let's keep that tradition going...

 

[Matthew Verkler]

Just to remind everyone... it is very easy to shoot BAD RED footage. All you have to do is:

1. Miss exposure.
2. Miss focus (very easy to do)
3. Shoot in bad light
4. Shoot something that is not very interesting.
5. Screw up in post.
6. Forget to add ND filters and shoot everything outside at f22
7. Pan too fast
8... help me out here. Can you add any?

Jim

5. Screw up in post. The others are understandable to an extent, but it's not a mistake in post until it goes out the door . . . . . No excuse for this one. Except for spelling mistakes - 20 people can check these and some still get through, once in a while.

I love post because I can fix any mistake I might make before it matters.

I love shooting cause I hate sitting in a dark room forever.

 

[Peter McCully]

whoops. Tired. That should have "red" YEARS

 

[Brian Kaz]

1. Use a different camera by accident

2. Let my mom shoot something

 

[Pol Turrents]

forgot tapes at home.... uh... I mean Red drives

 

[Matthew Verkler]

Remember that cinematography has been making and breaking it's own rules for a hundred ywers before there was Red. Let's keep that tradition going...

Yeah, a lot of our techniques started out as mistakes. But f22, well, I guess it IS a look of sorts . . . . and yes I have shot f22 when I forgot ND. Crap.

 

[Craig Ryan]

Agreed, we should definiely keep the expermiental spirit of cinema alive even with RED; but remember that there is a difference between BAD footage (unintentional) and simply breaking the rules (usually intentional on some level).

 

[Nikolai Vavilov]

Wrong WB? Oh no, you can't really do that, the VF is in colour (boy, I can't wait to get away from B/W viefinders...).

Wrong WB? It's RAW! Don't you ever shoot RAW on any modern SLR photocam?

 

[Paul Hazlett]

let your monkey butler shoot while you act.

not that I have ever done that....he is a better actor anyway.

 

[damonbots]

It's a trick question!!!

Everything that pumps out of the RED ONE is GLORIOUS!
The heavenly footage massages your optic nerves like a small fluffy kitten rubbing against your leg... like Tunga, the Tanzanian dwarf who rubbed the cramp out of my leg whilst climbing Kilimanjaro... like the time we got wasted in Vegas and we hired that call girl Buffy to... oh, I've gotten sidetracked.
Glorious... simply glorious!

 

[Ken Willinger]

Put everything in the truck...but forget the camera at home. I did that once!

 

[JD Holloway]

Here try this one,

Some pro cameras can get f'ed up when shooting very near a car (say in the door frame) as the ignition is turned. The frame jumps significantly for a couple of frames. The cameras need better EMF isolation as the car becomes a large antenna. Maybe RED should test this out?

J.

 

[Jannard]

It is a real question... great images are possible with RED, but so are bad ones. It is important to know why. I don't want a customer thinking that just because they bought our camera, great footage automatically falls out the back end.

Jim

 

[Greg M]

Its still a craft, the tools are only there to assist us.

 

[Shawn Nelson]

Bad footage will result whenever you use it in a way that does not go with the story. A well exposed, well focused, well panned wide angle of an emotionally intense scene will be lifeless.

 

[Bachman]

Media100

Media100

Use Media100 to edit

 

[Paul Hazlett]

Ok,

If you want to screw up footage real good just dont light it. or light it badly

I think this is the single biggest cuiprit to bad footage, many people have no idea about how to light a scene to create depth, add drama, set a mood etc,

 

[createra]

Just like digital cameras help individuals to become better photographers, a camera like RED will help individuals become better cinematographers. The possibility to test things and play around helps you develop your talents.

You could also draw a parallel to 3D. A few years ago, most things looked really bad, but now there are a lot of really great artist "popping" up.

Better and cheaper tools helps individuals to become better artist.

 

[Harmonica]

...underwater shooting without the housing.

 

[Nikolai Vavilov]

People made bad footage and people made good footage.
The question is as old as world, why ask it again?
You're guys made really great job. No. Insane job!

...Sometimes one very good russian plane constructor said simple thing: If the plane is'nt look beautiful, it cannot fly well. I think the same is with your's camera. It looks not only beautiful, it looks like you put your best dreams into it. Kudos, RED team... you are people who make world go round.