Flawless - $0 budget music video

[John Marchant]

Don't usually post my work around, but this one was a favour for a couple of young singer songwriters local to us, so the more exposure for them the better :smile:

http://www.vimeo.com/16856323

Its not perfect, but until this they'd only ever performed live and didn't even have any audio recordings of their music.

 

[Henry Olonga]

Good of you to do them a favour. Liked the colours. Red sure does have a punch to it

 

[Graeme Nattress]

Nicely done!

Graeme

 

[Sanjin Jukic]

Pretty good and hope we gonna hear more from them soon.

 

[John Marchant]

Cheers guys. Its great fun to see what you can achieve in a short time

Of course it helps when someone involved has talent; the girls may still be at school, but they certainly write a good pop melody.

 

[Babu Kantamneni]

Nice

 

[Justin Kirchhoff]

Great talent from such young artists. Love the video. Wonderful job.

 

[Philipe Ratton]

Very nice

 

[Alexander Ibrahim]

I like the video, and I applaud you for helping them out! It was very generous of you, and I hope they make the best out of your gift.

They are very good, and I hope we get to see more from them.

 

[Richardvclark]

Did you use still lenses?

 

[Mark Phelan]

Very well done, especially considering the budget! I bet the girls are thrilled with it.

 

[Rob Ruffo]

Very sweet. One comment though - synch is off in several places - super easy to fix. you should get someone who can look at it fresh to help you fix that.

 

[jimhare]

A lot of effort for a favour, great job.

And the MX just sings. I just got off a 10 RED shoot and the difference between M and MX is night and day.

 

[John Marchant]

Thanks for the spot on the sync Rob, its the encoded file it would seem... my 444 master is fine but the H264 I uploaded isn't; the wonders of quicktime I guess lol. Fortunately vimeo lets you replace files, so I shall

A bit more info: Lenses were Red 18-50, 50-150 and Duclos Tokina 11-16 mostly around T4-5.6, shot largely at ISO800, then graded in RCX with 320 plus a curve for exposure. The barn was just the two HMI's and a couple of tiny sachtler tungsten sources up front. Total time spent was a day on the shoot, and a day total to both grade and edit split into a couple of 3-4 hour sessions.

 

[Jeff Kilgroe]

Very sweet. One comment though - synch is off in several places - super easy to fix. you should get someone who can look at it fresh to help you fix that.

Hard to truly judge sync via web video... But I think I did see a possible issue in a couple spots.

Anyway, I thought the video has a great look. That's gotta be a huge adrenaline shot for these girls to go from having no real recording or anything to having this as a showpiece.

Awesome job and low/no budget too..

 

[Julian Gerretsen]

Nice one John. I thought it had a "New Englandy" feeling to it and then realised you are actually over on this side of the pond in Woking!

I really liked the clean flares in the "barn" shots.

 

[John Marchant]

Hey Julian, yup it was shot in the good old original Hampshire, not the new one . The lens flares were fun to play with - I love the way the MX handles them.

This is me mucking about with flare in our office when we got the MX back from upgrade -

http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=475891235725

I won't tell you how long I spent playing with that and chucking different lenses on LOL!