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"Sleepwalking In The Rift" - Anyone Know What This Was Shot On?

Thank you for your insight Gabriele--I am like a child in a church when it comes to color. Everything is still a bit too holy and I am too unwise to do anything but ask what I think are the right questions. I will always remember my first session with Alex Berman a few years ago, watching him take dusk scenes and make such magic with such gentle precision. He kindly explained to me his process of balancing the palette and that's when I realized I had so much more to learn.

I agree, it is Darren's shooting and the real sense of Cari's vision singing between the cuts, but I am trying to quantify in a way I don't normally try to do with "fashion films..." or even most features, honestly. Something about the images just gets to you. It is nice to watch on silent, just letting the moments play with no voices.

While we're discussing the role color plays in a piece like this--Gabriele, without seeing the negatives, I have to say I think your work is a big part of why I watch it again and again :)
 
Pablo Moreno said:
What about a 3D lut that emulates 5D colors for RED, since Raw files give us more room on the latitude to work with..
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5D have such a compressed files ,and color profile that interpret the image to canon liking depending on the image (and depending the way the user set the camera) ... being even 1/2 over or under can change everything ... so a mathematical transformation (3D lut ) won't never be the best you could get from a variety of different footage ...

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Ryan De Franco said:
I agree, it is Darren's shooting and the real sense of Cari's vision singing between the cuts, but I am trying to quantify in a way I don't normally try to do with "fashion films..." or even most features, honestly. Something about the images just gets to you. It is nice to watch on silent, just letting the moments play with no voices.

While we're discussing the role color plays in a piece like this--Gabriele, without seeing the negatives, I have to say I think your work is a big part of why I watch it again and again :)
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Thank you Ryan , we work for the artists and when it all plays together nicely and there is substance in the frame ...it's quite rewarding .

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BRANDON JAMESON said:
Just what we need..more ways to degrade RED images.
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I am talking about just the color rendering, that wont affect the gamma and contrast in the Red Raw files, think about it..

EDIT: I am going to give it a try anyway, I know how to make accurate LUTs, lets see how it goes..
 
It's not film. Here's what Gabriele Turchi, the colorist of the film had to say:

Gabriele Turchi said:
It was shot on 2 Canon 5D (or 5D and 7D ( not sure )
Cary and Darren are true artists , i believe they can shoot poetry even with an Iphone ...
It has been true pleasure working with them .

And that is only the Trailer , in the 30 min piece ( a short story divided in 8 vignettes) there are breathtaking images ... not sure when it will be released tough ...

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Yea read that too. Just comes to show how important the post production process is. It seems as though in this day and age, you can make "anything look like anything" with proper coloring, grading and plug-ins. Awesome stuff regardless.
 
Gabriele Turchi said:
It was shot on 2 Canon 5D (or 5D and 7D ( not sure )
Cary and Darren are true artists , i believe they can shoot poetry even with an Iphone ...
It has been true pleasure working with them .

And that is only the Trailer , in the 30 min piece ( a short story divided in 8 vignettes) there are breathtaking images ... not sure when it will be released tough ...

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Nice, good to know I'm not the only one being fooled into thinking it was film. Gorgeous visuals, these guys know their stuff.
 
in case people are interested the full film is up https://vimeo.com/user19303281

If this was really shot on canon dslr's how come this looks so filmic, in fact light years better than anything else and no one else has ever come even remotely close and all logic/knowledge(regarding h264, 8 bit and all the other limitations) says it cannot be?

I can't believe it, nor will i accept that Tree of Life was shot entirely on the iphone.
 
BTS photos:

http://s3.amazonaws.com/gallery-pro...hments/383620/images/original.jpeg?1354733473
https://s3.amazonaws.com/gallery-pr...hments/382476/images/original.jpeg?1354657826

https://s3.amazonaws.com/gallery-pr...hments/383560/images/original.jpeg?1354733348
https://s3.amazonaws.com/gallery-pr...hments/382478/images/original.jpeg?1354657872

The last one very clearly shows Canon dslr's.

Here's one uploaded to the Mayet tumbler feed as well, that's a Zacuto EVF.

Amazing work from a 5D, I think I'll have to play with mine more. Would be great to learn what sort of picture profiles they used, and what was the post process.
 

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Wow guys, seems kinda obvious 5d to me especially in a handful of shots where the depth of field is from a full frame camera, nothing else has that characteristic

Beautiful work
 
Cameras used the natural profile , but having the contrast and the sharpness at the minimum value . Th temperature has been kept consistent either (5600K or 3200K)

For the Post , i color corrected on a Davinci Resolve .

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Oh the irony.

Gabriele, were there any overt limitations imposed by the camera choice on the colouring side? Like did you have to fight with the footage as much as pundits suggest? Also what was the workflow; h264>to what intermediate/working format (prores? tiff? dpx?)?
 
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Mike P. said:
Oh the irony.

Gabriele, were there any overt limitations imposed by the camera choice on the colouring side? Like did you have to fight with the footage as much as pundits suggest? Also what was the workflow; h264>to what intermediate/working format (prores? tiff? dpx?)?
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sure , a 8bit H264 is more complicated to color correct than let's say a 12 bit Raw , or 10 Bit Log scan etc….in 8 Bit H264things break easily , but on the other side the 5D have some great characteristic too . Darren Lew (cinematographer ) and Cary Fukunaga did great camera work , and that i huge part of the way it looks …. and sure color correction is big part too to get rid of the digital feeling …

regarding the workflow i graded DPX , but that does not make any difference , i graded DPX only because grading a compressed format tax the system more than a uncompressed
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