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RED Dragon and Phantom 4k

NIce
 
thanks guys! it was really fun but also very technical as you can imagine. ill try to post some behind the scenes pics tomorrow.
 
Nice to see those 1960's A-bomb missile bras making a come back ;-)
 
Great production values, but what is this?... a music video?... an acting reel?... a personal fantasy trip?... a software bells-and-whistles ad... an anti-drug PSA?
 
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Elsie N said:
Great production values, but what is this?... a music video?... an acting reel?... a personal fantasy trip?... a software bells-and-whistles ad... an anti-drug PSA?
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thank you!
it was for her tour visuals, played while she was doing a big costume and set change during her international tour for about a year and a half.
 
jordan levy said:
thank you!
it was for her tour visuals, played while she was doing a big costume and set change during her international tour for about a year and a half.
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Ahhh... makes sense now.
 
Great stuff! Can you explain the lighting setup for that set? Also, was the mini triangular set used for some of the Phantom paint effects? Who did the visual effects?
 
Steve Sherrick said:
Great stuff! Can you explain the lighting setup for that set? Also, was the mini triangular set used for some of the Phantom paint effects? Who did the visual effects?
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thanks steve!
well i guess there is the lighting but then there is the procedure, because someone else mentioned the compositing.
so, the truth is there was very little composting, all the paint blasting around was all done practically.
the only compositing was done with making multiple katies in the large gimbal room and the small triangle set, as you can see it in the background of one of the pictures.
then the very opening is obviously CG and then when she runs her finger along the white wall and green paint comes out, that was put in in post.
but all paint blasting was done with 12 pressure canons with edible paint. she was a real trooper, unbelievable actually. during weeks of prep i kept saying, so she is cool with paint being blasted in her face???
the stage looked like a dexter kill room mixed with fantasia.

as for lighting, with the large gimbal room, first of all the camera was fixed to the nodal point of the rig, that was an epic dragon with a 15-40mm optimo.
then we also rigged 3 4ft celeb lights to the rig in a triangle formation, going along with the set, both the camera and lights were 25ft away, the length of the rig.
LED Celebs made this all possible because of the low wattage, all power and cabling also had to be rigged to be turned with the set so it didnt tangle, as she wanted to perform to the whole song.

some of the macro paint work was done in a separate room lit with 2 20ks, and those 20ks were brought out when we had to shoot phantom on the big set to get 1000fps. the small triangle was lit with one 4x4 kino flo.

oh the black light set up, again what a trooper, katie had to stay in full paint after being blasted in the face multiple times while we repositioned the camera and tweeked some lighting on another set. on this set i had 8 wall-o-lite kinos fixed with black light tubes, but i also added some strobes to be able to reveal her in some split second moments.

2 weeks of prep, 1 weeks of set builds, 2 days of testing and shooting…and that was guillermo navarro's personal phantom 4k that he hadnt even used yet :)

oh and 99 percent of this was shot on leicas f1.5…just the optimo for the rig shot.
 
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