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Student Short - Shot on Red

Christopher Grant Harvey

Christopher Grant Harvey

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Hi there,

UPDATE: You can finally view the film in it's entirety online at IMDB here:

http://www.imdb.com/video/wab/vi4271310105

Any feedback would be welcome.
Thanks

A spin-off project is being developed into a feature film next year, so I will post more information on that as it happens. It is going to be shot on the Red One.

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I have set up a Facebook page if anyone wants to see pictures and some videos.

http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=76077395214

I think this is the first (but not last) student film shot on Red in South Africa I have heard of, and it went very well. Thanks to the cast and crew!!

I am EXTREMELY grateful to the owner of the camera, he trusted me enough to let me use it for a weekend and promised to put me in a wheelchair if I messed it up. Glad to say I am not in a wheelchair...

I luckily had spent most of the year helping out with the camera and provided some post production assistance so by the time we shot I knew the camera and workflow very well. I planned well in advance and that paid off.

Please drop by the page and leave some feedback since this is student work.

Thanks
 
A note about the film, I only had enough money to shoot for 2 and 1/4 days so things had to move quickly, but as a newbie I learnt a lot and this experience has allowed me to mature as a writer/director. I co-wrote, co-produced, executive produced, directed, and will be editing this film.

After about 3 hours I completely forgot we were shooting on the RED and I focused more on the elements in front of the lens.

Our lens package was a set of Zeiss Super Speeds, 25mm, 35mm, 50mm, 85mm, I added a 135mm and a 12mm to the mix as well. We used the Red 18-50mm zoom too.

Basic light package, reflectors, a 4ft Kino Flo, 2 x 2.5 HMI's and 2 x 1.2 HMI's, and good sound gear; Sennheiser 416 & 816 and a mixer.
 
(Oh, I co-wrote, co-produced, executive produced, directed, and will be editing this film.)
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since he will be editing, that would mean he has not made a cut as of yet.

if you want feedback, don't go too cold or too warm on the colors, and ease on the sharpness, it might be a low jpg compression,but allot of the extra not needed detail result in artifact-ed stuff.
 
amrrahmy said:
since he will be editing, that would mean he has not made a cut as of yet.

if you want feedback, don't go too cold or too warm on the colors, and ease on the sharpness, it might be a low jpg compression,but allot of the extra not needed detail result in artifact-ed stuff.
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Thanks, there is a cut, but it is very rough and I would prefer to not show anything at all until I can show something proper...

NO sharpnening applied whatsoever. Those are 4:2:2 1024 x 512 CineForm Avi's. The pictures appear overly sharp because of the roundabout way in which I created JPEG's.

As for the grade, I'll take suggestions as I'm still playing around. Thanks :gun:
 
hi i loved your footages but can you upload some videos?

Regards
 
Matthew Bennett said:
Lovely light! Really like the restrained brownish pallette...
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Thanks, those are just the first pass I made at some grading... which might not change much.

I might lessen the strength of the colour tints in all these shots.
 
Hello Christopher!
I'm giving a first look to Red stuff, and I have some very very ignorant questions I'd like to ask, seeing that you've already worked seriously with this camera.

Did you find any kind of trouble with the camera during the shooting? Any technical issue you hadn't previously noticed?
How long does it take to backup the raw material from the hard disk to a laptop? Does it take for any reason to have a very good laptop at hand?

>Zeiss Super Speeds, 25mm, 35mm, 50mm, 85mm, I added a 135mm
>and a 12mm. We used the Red 18-55mm zoom too.

The thing is I have to find some information here for a friend who doesn't speak english, and I don't know much about this technical things like lenses and stuff. So please be patient If I ask ridiculous questions.
I'm wondering: what kind of mount did you use? I've heard there are some PL and L lenses? Do you think it's possible to work with some L lenses with decent results?

Well... that's for now, but I'm sure more will come up later.
Thanks for your time, and congratulations, at least the images you showed in the thread look great.

Regards,


martín.
 
These shots look fantastic, Christopher! Can't wait to see footage.

And I agree, don't post footage until it's properly edited. You only get one chance at making a first impression.
 
I thought I recognized Jonathan Pienaar from 'Blood Diamond'!

looks great!
 
wow seriously great work.... you are in so Africa?

tell us more about the workflow... anything not working?

so you will be going back to 4k cineform? or just the 1920x1080? you might the very first to shoot RED and use the new cineform express workflow.... very interested... what are you specs on your laptop or desktop?

mike
 
Sorry for the delay been really busy...

Time for some answers

Martin B. said:
Hello Christopher!
Did you find any kind of trouble with the camera during the shooting? Any technical issue you hadn't previously noticed?
How long does it take to backup the raw material from the hard disk to a laptop? Does it take for any reason to have a very good laptop at hand?

>Zeiss Super Speeds, 25mm, 35mm, 50mm, 85mm, I added a 135mm
>and a 12mm. We used the Red 18-55mm zoom too.

The thing is I have to find some information here for a friend who doesn't speak english, and I don't know much about this technical things like lenses and stuff. So please be patient If I ask ridiculous questions.
I'm wondering: what kind of mount did you use?
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Martin, I used normal Zeiss PL mount lenses. No problems.

On my laptop, which is nothing special, it took about a minute to transfer 1GB. We shot to the drive all day which worked out better than the CF cards.

brndn said:
I thought I recognized Jonathan Pienaar from 'Blood Diamond'!

looks great!
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Yes the same Jonathan! He was awesome to work with. In fact both Jonathan and Russel were fantastic to work with... they saved my ass many times. :)

MikeHedge said:
wow seriously great work.... you are in so Africa?

tell us more about the workflow... anything not working?

so you will be going back to 4k cineform? or just the 1920x1080? you might the very first to shoot RED and use the new cineform express workflow.... very interested... what are you specs on your laptop or desktop?

mike
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Yip, JHB South Africa.

Workflow worked flawlessly. I converted everything to Express Files and for now I am finishing at 1920 x 1080 to create HD and SD files.

Editing the Express Files was so fast and simple, this week I am in the process of "onlining" to the CF HD files.

My laptop is nothing special, Core Duo 1.7GHz, 2GB RAM, XP, but it works super smooth with Express Files. Desktop is just a standard Quad Core Q6600, 4GB RAM, XP 32, lots of HDD's, and Prospect 4K.

Footage is coming soon I promise... :)
 
Hey Christopher, thank you very much for your answer. I'm overwhelmed by new information on the red cameras, accesories, types of workflow and so on.
When you chose to go shooting with the hard drives, I understand the comfort of being able to shoot non stop and just transfering the footage at the end of the day. But do you have in mind any other advantage it has over the compact flash system?
Another technical ignorante question: does it takes any special hardware to connect the red drive to a laptop?

I'm amazed that this kind of footage can be edited smoothly with this kind of computers. Very glad too to hear so.

Thank you again, and hoping to see the video soon.
 
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