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Taylor Swift " Bad Blood " shot on Weapon by Christopher Probst

Robert Ruffo New said:
I must say I find the the concept to be mindless, boring dreck of the worst kind, like it was conceived by an illiterate 17 year old, and that's a shame, but that's Joseph's fault, not yours.
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Robert, with all due respect, go fuck yourself. How am I supposed to take your keyboard-warrior backhanded comments, like, "Wow, what a piece of shit, but that's not your fault, so yay you!" Know what, it IS my work and my creation as well. So passive aggressive snide remarks are really not appreciated or called for. Do you think we are fucking morons? Do you think every element of this work wasn't calculated for its maximum effect on its target audience? We are not aiming for high art here, it's pop culture eye candy aimed at empowering teenage girls.

So unless you have anything of value to add to a discussion, you can keep you useless bullshit of self-worth posturing to yourself.
 
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As far as the concept goes I think it is a pretty positive message that girls are tough, not just dancing around singing about missing their boyfriend.
 
Just watched it again..... and must say that I love your work Chris, and on all levels.

Are there any behind the scenes photos or videos?
 
Brian Boyer said:
The RGB values for the black letterbox are 1,0,1 from a screen grab on my system, according to Photoshop...no matter what working color space I choose. My monitor is calibrated. I'm not sure why you're experiencing a lighter letterbox with that video and not others but I'm not having that problem.

If I'm being honest, the color in your grab looks a little off on my screen, too. That one is a little harder to pin down because of the sheer number of variables.
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Thanks for this Brian, it seems that the plot thickens. When Chris posted some of his BTS pics I thought something might have been off again because the blacks looked much deeper in the JPG's he posted than what I was seeing on my end. From what I can tell it seems that it's just Chrome doing weird stuff sporadically. It's fine for some videos and trailers and then others the blacks are just totally incorrect - I have no way of working out what's causing which. Some comparison pics below with IE11 which is getting the blacks correct each time. This is why targeting web delivery can be a nightmare, even aside from all the various displays and viewing conditions we have browsers doing their own funky business. Especially confusing when Google owns YouTube and Chrome...

I'm guessing colors looking off are a function of the black levels - especially being that they are being pushed into the cooler tones, a lot of that is lost when chrome screws the blacks up and thus throws the entire color balance off in the process.

Edit: also just noticed that Chrome blacks can tend to have some color shift (as exhibited in the Zedd screen cap). Though perhaps this could be attributed to IE using h.264 compressed variants vs Chrome using webm.


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I think it totally kicks ass. Absolutely master craftsmen as far as I can see. I think the talent and the artistry came together perfectly to the desired effect.

Solid.
 
King Kendrick. Cinematography aside, Kendrick is doing some truly great work recently. Probably not the best forum to talk about it, but if any of you are in the edit suite or color grading and need some tunes to listen to, his recent album 'To pimp a butterfly' has got some real shit to say.

And of course, beautiful work Christopher. Forget what Rob said. I watched this yesterday without any promo from RED or knowing it was from a REDuser, and I thought it was cool as f. And I'm a 25yo male.
 
Well... That looked amazing.
 
HOLY SHXXXXLLS this looks friggin amazing. from every aspect, cinematography, production design, vfx. Well done everyone involved.
are you allowed to say anything about the budget ? curious to know what something like this takes to make these days. this has absolute feature film quality.
 
The video was great but I felt it was too soft looked kind of blurred...no sharp focus. Was It shot on weapon 8K? and do you have any raw footage untouched by any effects?
 
Dominik Muench said:
... are you allowed to say anything about the budget ? curious to know what something like this takes to make these days. this has absolute feature film quality.
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I am curious as well. From the looks of things, probably MEGA bucks! (I think I read somewhere that on one of her music video shoots, the catering chef was Mario Batali.)
 
Tony Harris said:
The video was great but I felt it was too soft looked kind of blurred...no sharp focus. Was It shot on weapon 8K? and do you have any raw footage untouched by any effects?
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Beauty work for the ladies makes things have a softer appearance than the RAW shot footage. Pretty sure this is 6K Weapon.

Chris, excellent work! This is the kind of stuff that gets me excited about shooting!!
 
I fell in love with that quality of CGI which im sure is made by brilliant people the compositing is seamless and avenger quality, I do understand this is not a weapon camera review or test, but what can you tell us about this experience, do you think this results were doable on an epic dragon, or an epic MX or even a scarlet? what is your take on the weapon itself? what is the main stream advantage of weapon on your production?
 
Jarred, Thanks for continuously posting great work here for us to see.

Christopher. Thanks for being generous enough to share some other photos setups and the skinny on how you went about your business/prep and some insights on weapon and all the other good stuff. It's helps out a lot of users and I am very sure more appreciate it than not.

For anyone who understands how to look at the work, they can see what you are doing.

And to to those that want to be critical and be Debbie downers, please don't insult the very talented people featured on reduser, it hurts everyone and really creates a sort of bad vibe for no useful reason.
 
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