First commercial with my Epic Dragon

[Alberto Guglielmi]

I can release this now. Talent is a stunt woman and ninja warrior (Jessie Graff). Epic Dragon, Zeiss ZE lenses, and a basic crew. I directed and DoP. Comments (and critiques) welcome.

 

[darren scott]

Hey Alberto. Any particular reason this was exposed so hot? I found that distracting.

 

[Alberto Guglielmi]

Hey Darren, It was a stylistically choice. We wanted a very high contrast scene, with strong highlights. We took some inspiration from the almost overexposed beach scenes of Massimo Vitali's photos and added some more gritty activewear contrast.

 

[Demetri Zuev]

The editing should be much tighter for the chosen soundtrack, and I'd also liked to hear some kind of story - why does she do what she does, what pushes her etc. And actions variation should be much broader too, I want to see her in different locations doing different things, leading to the beach.

 

[Akin A]

I think the grade and fast shutter took away pretty much all of the Dragon aesthetic.
It doesn't look like it was shot on a RED camera. I don't think it is distinguishable from a video shot on a low DR phone with a contrast filter applied.

Maybe a regrade can improve it, but the motion is baked in.

Just keeping it real, I don't want to discourage.

 

[Alberto Guglielmi]

Hi Akin, thanks for the input.
Just for the sake of clarity, it was actually shot at 23.98fps (apart from few slow motion shots) and all at 180 degrees shutter (1/48th or 1/200th for the slow)

 

[Karim D. Ghantous]

Well, my first thought was that this woman is rather hot. ;-) I would have preferred a voiceover (hers) instead of the music. I am not totally sure what the brand is for - clothing?