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I've shot a no budget feature film (partially) as a DP under similar circumstances last year. we had some permissions here and there to shoot in metros and train stations for a few hours, but mostly it was outside in the busy capital city. i'll share a still of it here, if somebody wants to see more stills I can DM a link, but at the moment I think it's best it mainly stays private considering the film is not finished yet. i do kind of think best to push back against the idea of total minimalism, or austerity especially in regards to crew. Other than the director and I, we had a 1AD, a PA, a makeup artist, sound guy, a focus puller, and on some days a grip or a gaffer (on the few moments we weren't just relying on available light). our director was someone who was frankly underexperienced and would generally completely abandon our preproduction plans, change the script all the time and was unwilling to listen to anyone else's suggestions other than the actors, which caused some tension from time to time. having these other people on your side to keep you in line can make this experience a lot more pleasant since it's hard to make films, no matter how small the scope is. this was shot on a largely rigged up BMCC6K with some SLR Magic primes, and mostly on a cine saddle. I guess we we're pretty lucky with not being bothered by strangers while shooting, other than having some random people staring at the camera in a wide shot. also the thing with walking around in a medium 2-shot is that it is insanely boring, especially for a visual language. there's a reason that doesn't really happen in WKW's stuff.

looks nice, hides the clipping well

no 12 bit codec (whether it's PR444 or raw) makes it kind of DOA for me. that tended to be kinefinity's main selling point imo. conceptually its cool, but I just got a BMCC6K FF for 1500 euros second hand as a B-CAM. same sensor, same open gate capability, gives me an option to use an EVF as well, and it lets me do more in the grade.

i would think that not releasing a new or slightly improved product every year exudes some kind of confidence over the stuff that they make. sure the cameras they make with sony sensors, their sensors are older than some of the other ones available on the market. but compare the user experience between a fuji when you’re shooting moving images to a BM, and suddenly those 0.3 extra stops or whatever aren’t that interesting to me. Especially when you’re comparing the extra color lattitude of a good 12 bit codec and a decent 10 bit one. Even on the pyxis 6k, with its old ass sensor, like basically the only other camera that has FF open gate and a 12 bit codec are kinefinities and those are significantly more expensive.

i dont really understand you. whether it’s resolve, premiere or avid mc, all you would need for super basic quick edits are 6 hotkeys: in- and out points, insert, overwrite, next and previous clip. if you want to become a decent efficient editor, you learn the hotkeys for scrubbing, extending clips, cutting left and right from the playhead, moving clips x amount of frames. if you just use those, you will never have to use your mouse, nor a menu, and thus will never feel any perceived bloat. pure user error from your part.

lovely images for sure

shot this music video with it last year, although the band has decided to release it just now. i think it's pretty cool for how low budget it was

Dunno if anyone’s posted this on here, but i saw this on my instagram because i followed the DP a while ago, looked pretty good, with some unfortunate highlight clipping here and there. wont help you guys because you cant really shoot.

I’m not complaining about the new, i’m fairly indifferent towards it. It won’t really affect my life very much either way. I just fail to see if this is an interesting topic compared to a labor market that keeps getting worse and whatever capital is trending towards now. The complete devaluation of quality in arts (and even commerce fwiw) and the tendency to constantly cut corners by automating tasks, or even straight up skipping the entire process and straight up generating content from large data models has had an extremely negative impact on my life, as well as others. The fact that no one with any political power anywhere wants to regulate it and just sees it as a given is also bad i think.

i worked more days in construction this year than i have in the film and commercial industry. sorry but who cares about pushing boundaries and constant releases of new means when there’s less and less work to use the means on?

sounds to me like you’re doing a shoot that’s meant to be done by multiple crew members as a 1 man band. i already think you’re setting yourself up to fail. Depending on what you’re invoicing and whatever budget you’re going with, you might even skew expectations further for clients and other workers in the field.

lmfao

I mean he’s pretty good at framing. Nothing super spectacular here imo I mean probably because it’s a very watered down imitation of one of the most stylish movies ever and ultra wide handheld is instantly a super engaging look when done correctly. when’s the last time you dared to grade one of your videos that green or that ‘unnatural’? Good looking moving images are the result of not just having intention behind as much as possible, but also trying to stick to certain daring decisions (that might fuck you over) imo.

no one gives a rats ass about anything and most people in the industry have side hustles to survive or pay the bills.

incredible seems a bit overstated. decent maybe