wado1942 wrote:I think the "apartment" is the really problematic area. Anyways, have you tried using an Ultra-Contrast filter?
not with this stock, but i've tried them and they seem useful. the apartment could have easily been lit to a lower ratio though, so it's simply a mistake on behalf of the filmmakers. more general fill and a few more hotspots in the frame and it would have been clean.
BTW, now that I've seen it a couple more times, there's a couple of spots where the band is maybe a frame or 2 out of sync with the film. Also, did you have to do a lot of color correction? I'm thinking about shooting my next project using 64T for indoor shots.
sync is taken care of. remember this was a first cut. i've also done some color correction. what you've seen is almost directly from the scanner, although it's an attended best light transfer so it's already corrected to a degree.
the edges are black because pal is 704x576 and dv is 720x576, but i guess you mean the vignetting? my camera does that when i zoom in, as do most. it was scanned on a flashscan8, as mentioned earlier in this thread. ;-)
thanks, corbijn is one of my heroes. i think he has more edge and is more "serious" while i'm more easy going in my videos, even though we work with similar aesthetics. the video is finished and there's a separate thread for that. check it out.
...it's a well crafted piece. I find a lot to like about it: the look, the pacing of the edits, camera movements. It reminds me a lot of the first music videos from the 1980s and for that reason I have to say that it comes across a bit samey and formulaic - sort of a tried and true music video recipe.
I drop out of it with the girl in the apartment having a temper tantrum. I don't know - it just seems silly to me and I feel as if I have seen it in many many European music videos. This said, photographically, I think you have really developed a unique thumb print of your own, but in terms of thematic content, I'm not finding original ideas.
...I don't follow music video's very closely, but I do like the stuff the Gondry did for the White Stripes and when I think back on truly memorable music videos that I have seen I think of the stuff that "The Residents" produced and some of the "Devo" stuff. Otherwise the history of music videos is lost on me. They all blend together in my memory.
don't know if this kind of feedback helps, but there it is...
