Luke Kokinos
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I'm a no-budget filmmaker in a crowd of people with a similar workflow. Everything I've worked on has been funded out-of-pocket or through Kickstarter. I do a monthly web-series called Fall, and I'm working on a 30-40 minute short to produce next summer. Frankly, the days of muddy and soft DSLR footage, my audio equipment being supported on a broom stick, my trial of CS6 expiring, just got a little old.
I'm a young guy, younger than I wish to share on this forum, and I have much to learn, and right now, I'm trying to do the best work as possible with the time, location, and crew restraints I face. And I know I'm going to learn a lot from transferring my post-pro workflow over to Media Composer, taking the time I need to gaff my sets (which are often people's houses), take time to do the needed ADR, shoot scenes that need to be shot with the angles I need. And will being able to shoot at and ISO above 200 without noise be great for the low-key lighting I love? Yes. But I'm trying to stop letting time, crew, and just plain stupid mistake be an excuse on the table come the day of a shoot.
I know composers, and extremely talented musicians, why is it that I just go to Royalty Free music sites to get all my soundtrack? Why do I use Freesound as my folly? I don't know, but I know it's not happening anymore.
I bought a BT RED ONE, and doubled or tripled total production time, so why not take those extra hours to record folly, fix audio, have someone do a freaking score? I have the resources, I have to make the time now. Get more people on set, take more time with each shot, take the time needed to take my well-written, and decent-getting-better work and turn it into true filmmaking.
Finally buying a RED wasn't just taking my image to a new level, it was making a choice to take my work to a new level, take my ability to a new level. And will the RED be a great tool? Yes. As a photographer, I love editing RAW, and anything but is torture while grading. I love to actors I have, I love the scenery of Madison, I love the people who follow my work. And I'm ready to overcome the excuses I've made in the past. Everything can be fixed, everything can be made to work. After a while, I feel that on set, I am the limiting factor. I'm the reason my work isn't as well-done as it could be if I took the extra time, call actors for longer shoots, taking the time I need to shoot everything the way I picture while writing.
I love the fact that I have a camera of this caliber with my name on it. On the web, do I use the full 4.5K ability the the RED ONE has? No, but I'm still shooting RAW, I'm still shooting with more DR, clean images without grain and softness. I'm ready to be a real filmmaker, and for years, I've known RED would be the company I'd take that transition with.
I'm a young guy, younger than I wish to share on this forum, and I have much to learn, and right now, I'm trying to do the best work as possible with the time, location, and crew restraints I face. And I know I'm going to learn a lot from transferring my post-pro workflow over to Media Composer, taking the time I need to gaff my sets (which are often people's houses), take time to do the needed ADR, shoot scenes that need to be shot with the angles I need. And will being able to shoot at and ISO above 200 without noise be great for the low-key lighting I love? Yes. But I'm trying to stop letting time, crew, and just plain stupid mistake be an excuse on the table come the day of a shoot.
I know composers, and extremely talented musicians, why is it that I just go to Royalty Free music sites to get all my soundtrack? Why do I use Freesound as my folly? I don't know, but I know it's not happening anymore.
I bought a BT RED ONE, and doubled or tripled total production time, so why not take those extra hours to record folly, fix audio, have someone do a freaking score? I have the resources, I have to make the time now. Get more people on set, take more time with each shot, take the time needed to take my well-written, and decent-getting-better work and turn it into true filmmaking.
Finally buying a RED wasn't just taking my image to a new level, it was making a choice to take my work to a new level, take my ability to a new level. And will the RED be a great tool? Yes. As a photographer, I love editing RAW, and anything but is torture while grading. I love to actors I have, I love the scenery of Madison, I love the people who follow my work. And I'm ready to overcome the excuses I've made in the past. Everything can be fixed, everything can be made to work. After a while, I feel that on set, I am the limiting factor. I'm the reason my work isn't as well-done as it could be if I took the extra time, call actors for longer shoots, taking the time I need to shoot everything the way I picture while writing.
I love the fact that I have a camera of this caliber with my name on it. On the web, do I use the full 4.5K ability the the RED ONE has? No, but I'm still shooting RAW, I'm still shooting with more DR, clean images without grain and softness. I'm ready to be a real filmmaker, and for years, I've known RED would be the company I'd take that transition with.
