"Wet" - REd Epic Slow Motion Short Film

[Dominic López]

"Wet" is a black & white dance film I shot on the Epic in slo-mo. The dancers performed on a 40-foot water floor built in studio. Typical frame rate was 90 fps, but 120 and 160 fps were also used. I used the Rokinon Cine primes and a Canon 70-200mm zoom. I really dig the results and I hope you all like the video, too. Thanks!

 

[Bob Gundu]

Here is the link for iOS users: https://vimeo.com/97418105

Nice stuff Dominic. I'm curious what shutter angle you were using? For my taste, I would have gone a little faster on the shutter to have the water less streaky, but thats nitpicking Nice job on the lighting too.

 

[Dominic López]

Thanks Bob! My shutter angle was typically around 180 degrees. And I agree. After looking at it in post, I kind of wished I had gone with a faster shutter speed, too. It would have been nice to get really clean, staccato water splash. Something I'll keep in mind for the next one. :wink5:

 

[Julio Quintana]

Dominic, I'll second what Bob said and just to clarify, it doesn't look like you shot with a 180 degree shutter. It may have been at 1/48th of a second when you were at 24fps, but the camera shutter would have to be set to "Relative" mode in order for the shutter to stay at 180 degrees as you increased the frame rate. It looks like you had the camera in "Fixed" shutter mode which means it would try to stay at 1/48th of a second even as you change the frame rate. This effectively gives you a 360 degree shutter as you increase past 48fps, which is why your high speed motion blur looks more smeary than you may have wanted.

I don't know if my explanation makes sense, but this is something that comes up a lot with Red overcranked footage because the camera defaults to the "Fixed" setting, which essentially funtions like a DSLR rather than a traditional motion picture film camera.

Julio

 

[Joe D'Arcy]

Hi Dominic. Very effective combination of B/W and backlighting. I loved it. Thanks for posting.

 

[Dominic López]

You're absolutely right, Julio. Just checked my camera and that's exactly what happened. Thank you very much for watching it and for the feedback. Much appreciated!

 

[Dominic López]

Thanks Joe. I'm glad you liked it.