That's some "Great" depth of field

[Tarek S. Kandil]

also, on the fact that i'm still figgering this out.

WHAT IS BOKEH? WHAT DOES IT MEAN?

and most embarrasingly

how do you pronounce it

T

 

[Roberto Lequeux]

Congrats Tarek

 

[Tarek S. Kandil]

Dude it came out of the blue. My first flick I did with a friend. He wrote it, directed it and dealt with the actors, I did everything requiring technology. I didn't know a damn thing.

I planned the money, used the cams, edited, aftereffects'ed, and wrote the music and did sound.

Natural light, under 500$ whole thing, most of it went to 25 disposable cameras, with 25 ppl operating lined up to try and do a 'matrix' style camera movement while freezing time between two videos. That worked real nice.

The thing for screening (is INTERLACED). I crunge crange, (cringed? S**t i forgot) with shame.

I didn't know it could be fixed.

Last night, I'm working on some shot, trying to figure something out and I get a call from the person in charge and we won the best short. There were over a 100 films.

Feels weird.

The WHOLE thing is in deep deep deep focus.

I just got to know of Stu Maschwitz I read his blog, and there was somethin terrific he put up and it just puts you in your place before during and after a project. Well worded.

I'll try and find the whole thing...

Thanks mate the ceremony's tonight i'm too nervous to go, director will go.

Cheers

T

P.S. I've never posted on internet. I'm sooooo new to this I'm an audio guy. How do I compress the film to fit online? Our connection in beirut is so slow and I know nothing bout compression and formats still learning bout bitrate and coloring. Can we post stuff here? Or a link?

Congrats Tarek

 

[Tarek S. Kandil]

Found it.

Feels good to read and think about.

"It's better for a film to have good audio than shallow depth of field.
It's better to have control over your camera than to shoot in HD.
It's better to have good lighting than raw 4K.
It's better to put time into color correction than visual effects.
It's not HD if it's not in focus.
There's no such thing as a rough cut with no sound.
Your story is told using the images you create, not the ones you intended to create.
You're not done editing until you've watched your film with an audience of people who don't care about your feelings.
Your film is still too long.
Your next film will be better. How's it coming?" - stu maschwitz, prolost.blogspot.com

 

[Tarek S. Kandil]

Applying this to the first, artifact-full film that got some recognition here should be constructive.

"It's better for a film to have good audio than shallow depth of field.

We had no shallow depth of field, I didn't know what it was, the only thing i worried about was composition, I majored in fine arts, so that was my biggest thing. If its composed well, it can work... had no clue bout design elements in film such as DOF ... good idea bout light, but being an illustrator it came out tooooo dark.

It's better to have control over your camera than to shoot in HD.

We shot HD for an SD output. Again didn't know bout depth of field so it was ok to crop and zoom digitally.

It's better to have good lighting than raw 4K.

Natural light

It's better to put time into color correction than visual effects.

We failed this one, skin tones were clobbered, values pushed too far, knew nothing bout any protocol in color correction. VFX were awesome. Color was bad. It was used crudely to identify characters, and very very sparingly.


It's not HD if it's not in focus.

If interlaced counts as out of focus (sure feels like it) then we bombed this one too.

There's no such thing as a rough cut with no sound.

Sound I liked.

Your story is told using the images you create, not the ones you intended to create.

This one hurt too. This one you can only admit to yourself in the dark. We definitely left a bunch of intended stuff out.

You're not done editing until you've watched your film with an audience of people who don't care about your feelings.

Oh yeah. That's when it hurt and I took at the footage again.

Your film is still too long.

The one that screened is 11 min, I'm on thing that's looking like 6.30 now, and i still think a min/half could be shaved off.

Your next film will be better. How's it coming?"

its comin along sweet. Thanks magic bullet, thanks creative cow, thanks prolost and reduser, and thanks WIKIPEDIA.

 

[Tarek S. Kandil]

... erm, so yeah, DOF, its all about the author's intent and the goal. If its what you need to do something that gets a point across, then do it.

... so what's bokeh then...

 

[Roberto Lequeux]

It is the optical effect from being out of focus. The bigger the sensor the shallower your DOF will become using the same lens. I'd love to see your matrix shot, and I would love to see your film if you can give us a link to it.

The word is Japanese and you pronounce it something like "Bo-kay", I think. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bokeh

 

[Tarek S. Kandil]

It is the optical effect from being out of focus. The bigger the sensor the shallower your DOF will become using the same lens. I'd love to see your matrix shot, and I would love to see your film if you can give us a link to it.

The word is Japanese and you pronounce it something like "Bo-kay", I think. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bokeh

Thank you... my power went out bout to go out again...

this is a link to the only time i posted the draft that screened. The subtitles are small, and I'm reworking everything. As there is no dialog or barely any, its a bit difficult to follow, i am now doin it over like a silent movie, where dialog is inserted as text.

Also, I know it's dark, and low res, as i really don't know how to approach compression. We're still on 'dial-up' connection here.

Thanks again for the help... would love to know what you think, you're the first person to see my first crack at managing footage to tell a story.

Please be brutal.

Thanks again and all the best,

Tarek

Mitsu Domo

http://www.facebook.com/posted.php?id=505282542&share_id=19640424779#s19640424779

 

[Tarek S. Kandil]

If you remember in a couple of weeks, can i show you the later cut? I need to buy magic bullet and get rid of the red x's when i'm done.

Thanks again, sorry if I seem a bit clingy, but I'm new, and no one here really is interested in what i do. Lebanon is busy with political instability tradition and car bombs (haven't had any so far a few months so whew)

Cheers

T