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  • Hey all, just changed over the backend after 15 years I figured time to give it a bit of an update, its probably gonna be a bit weird for most of you and i am sure there is a few bugs to work out but it should kinda work the same as before... hopefully :)

New Reel... helmet on.

Hmm, to be honest I was a touch underwhelmed by this. I'm not doubting the camera or the talent of the people involved, but as a montage it lacked impact for me. Some great pictures, yes, but some average ones too and a couple that really shouldn't have been in a showreel of this kind.
 
Liam Hall said:
Hmm, to be honest I was a touch underwhelmed by this. I'm not doubting the camera or the talent of the people involved, but as a montage it lacked impact for me. Some great pictures, yes, but some average ones too and a couple that really shouldn't have been in a showreel of this kind.
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It was done on wicked short notice and was downloaded to our friends at Camelot (Holland) who hand carried it to us 20 minutes before the show began. Thanks again, Philippe!

Jim
 
Jarred.....you don't need to use the word crazy with the word French, it is redundant.
:rofl::rofl::rofl::biggrinjester:
 
Jannard said:
It was done on wicked short notice and was downloaded to our friends at Camelot (Holland) who hand carried it to us 20 minutes before the show began. Thanks again, Philippe!

Jim
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I understand the pressure and limitations of a fast turn-around, I've been doing that for twenty-five years and I'm certainly not knocking the camera nor anyone's ability. It's just my $0.02:)
 
I notice that you don't have a demo reel on your site, Liam, -- your samples are entirely excerpts from completed pieces. Some nice stuff, too, by the way. My compliments... (although I would venture to say, that your own material also incorporates some range of "better" and "less better" individual shots, wouldn't you?)

I would add that building a great demo reel is substantially harder than excerpting parts from the whole. And I would imagine that building these RED reels is exceptionally challenging: the editors are cobbling together such a stylistically broad range of footage from many different types of shooters and projects (not to mention different Builds, etc.).

Making a piece that feels like an organic whole from all of these different parts can't be easy. I think Jarred did a nice job of tying the whole thing together.

One last point-- I imagine that RED perceives each of their different parts of a larger whole as well - and I can really appreciate that this reel is different than the one that I saw at NAB. It's good to show some range and some innovation.

Taste is always a highly subjective thing - this isn't my favorite reel, of the reels that I have seen, because I also tend to prefer the quieter, more profound experiences that imaging can allow us to inhabit. I guess that I am more of a rose-sniffer than a bad-ass.

But certainly there is an undeniable, overarching effect to this piece that I have to admire. Not every demo reel manages to breathe that kind of life into a random selection of images. Nice work, RED and Jarred.
 
For me this reel was pretty good - but not my favorite RED reel so far. It has some strong points: pace, continuity, grading, directness in reaching the 14 to 30 year old demographic, etc. I've produced and shot a ton of action sports and music TV programs for that same demographic, and for that target audience you did a good job in the edit. That said, like Liam, I feel there are some very good shots, some good shots, and some average shots. A full year in the Viet Nam war gave me plenty of real world views of things blowing up, so I guess I'm not really a fan of "things blowing up" movies and TV shows. I'd rather not have to strap on a helmet - been there, done that - in a real war.

Weak points are a lack of pace change-ups for a piece that long - a demo simply needs to "breathe" at times, and a lack of breadth and diversity in representation of the genres that RED One has been and is being used for - wildlife, sports, mood shots, scenics, etc. Rather than have that outstanding camel shot sequence end a slam-bang reel, perhaps it would be better to dip to black and have the camel shot start a new mood montage of shots of these other genres and styles - along with a change of music and editing pace. Its obviously difficult to use shots from all the many genres within one song - but perhaps multiple short reel segments, dipping quickly to black in between reels, that portray the true breadth that RED One is used in, with change-ups of music (and thus cutting style), would be something to consider looking forward.

I realize there were some time constraints. For me I'd say "pretty good job" - but I know given more time you can do a lot better. The above is simply offered as constructive input. RED One is a obviously a really versatile camera, and thus there are a lot of different styles being shot with it. Looking forward it would be cool to see some more breadth in genres and shooting styles presented in RED reels.

Annually I participate as an invited judge for several national Emmy Awards competitions - Prime Time, Sports, Daytime, and others - so the above input is offered via many years of high level experience judging the craft elements of productions and the productions themselves.

Setting the above aside, I'd like to thank RED Team for all the hard work, for RED One, and also for the upcoming new products. You guys seriously rock...:-)
 
Barry Gregg said:
Jarred, all of my Canadian love the US and are ashamed of the French Canadian side of the country.

Who shot the dessert scenes and how were they shot? Very beautiful footage.
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Well, everybody's ashamed of the French people... but you know, they're like mustard, it's often tasteless if they're missing.

So, will we ever know who shot the desert's scene ? It looks like a remote copter to me, and some steadycam work.
 
Meryem Ersoz said:
I notice that you don't have a demo reel on your site, Liam, -- your samples are entirely excerpts from completed pieces. Some nice stuff, too, by the way. My compliments... (although I would venture to say, that your own material also incorporates some range of "better" and "less better" individual shots, wouldn't you?)
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Geez, I didn't know it was a competition. Actually, I do have a mini-reel, you can see it if you like, but remember, I'm one individual, not a camera company.

The work on my site is a cross section of what I do. Nothing more, I offer no excuses for it. It is what it is.
 
Hello All,

Great to hear a lot of you got to see the new reel on the big screen... I hope the projectionists set up the screen masking properly to take full advantage of that Giant wide-screen at IBC, since we did a 240 finish of it specific to showing it as big as possible.

Some of you were asking about who shot that camel footage (which I agree is stunning) I hope you all got a chuckle out of the camel noises...

My good friend Arnaud from Paris, and his company LocaRED was responsible for the camel footage we used for the credits, and the aerial work was done by a company called Soulcam.

In our rush to get it out the door, the thing we focused on the least were the proper qc of the crediting - we need to re-visit that now that we made the IBC deadline to make sure we got everyone (a huge thank you to Philippe from Camalot in Amsterdam for downloading it and getting the DCP to Jim, just in the nick of time to show it for everyone)

+ Ted
 
Loved the desert shot... took me a lil guessing to figure out how it was shot. That shot was so schweeet... perfect time of day too.
 
TedRed said:
Hello All,

Great to hear a lot of you got to see the new reel on the big screen... I hope the projectionists set up the screen masking properly to take full advantage of that Giant wide-screen at IBC, since we did a 240 finish of it specific to showing it as big as possible.
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Yes. The new reel filled the *entire* friggin HUGE screen.

Quite overpowering on row two, frankly. Music was loud too :cornut:

Thanks for the effort. Much appreciated.
 
the camel shot was just so awesome. If that was on my reel, I'd be ecstatic. =]
 
I'm still trying to figure out the camel shot. Aerial first then telescoping jib? Great job, whatever the setup was.
 
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