Matt Kieley Posted June 24, 2022 Share Posted June 24, 2022 Shot some BTS footage of a friend's short film last weekend. Some of it looks good in B&W. TrueIndigo, mercer, PannySVHS and 1 other 3 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fuzzynormal Posted June 24, 2022 Share Posted June 24, 2022 Since movies are supposed to be a magical representation of our reality, there's always going to be a place for B&W. The lack of chroma makes it inherently unique and other-worldly. Because there's not as much visual data as with color, the frame focuses the viewer's attention to other aspects of the image. If you like cinema, it's really hard not to like what B&W gives you. I'm biased, I guess, because I've always been a fan of old movies and my dad let me use his darkroom when I was a kid. Developing cheap B&W film was quick and easy. Shooting a roll a day with a high-schooler's part-time-work wages was doable -- and a ton of fun. mercer, Emanuel and PannySVHS 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PannySVHS Posted November 24, 2023 Share Posted November 24, 2023 BW challenge. Let's do it! Cinema verité. Bring your internal stabs, your gimbals, your Sony A7CII to overcook and move and shake with some camera apparatus style moves or lock it on you 20kilo monster tripod. Do it cool, do it fun. Have fun! Be brave but behave! This could be a filming challenge again, after the last one in 2019! Internal BW. Who is with it? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kye Posted November 24, 2023 Share Posted November 24, 2023 3 hours ago, PannySVHS said: Internal BW. Preposterous! It would never work!! PannySVHS and Emanuel 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PannySVHS Posted November 24, 2023 Share Posted November 24, 2023 If it looks as valid on a GF3 it will certainly kick ass on a GX85. I would prefer to use a camera from GX85 and G7 on due to their solid 4K image and codec and for HD at least a GH3 with its 50mbit Long Gop in HD. GX has some nice bw profiles with adjustment of color hues. G7 I could check but a bit too lazy now.:) S line would be unfair but compelling to try out. All 709 profiles of course.:) Filming in vlog and turn down saturation after 709 conversion and sofore without possible colour manipulation could be a fair handicap for simulating a bw log profile. Of course no colour work permitted before 709 conversion.😊 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fuzzynormal Posted November 27, 2023 Share Posted November 27, 2023 This topic thread has been with us for awhile. This movie my wife and I helped make has been around for a few years too. Still, it's the holidays, and this is a "1930's" Christmas film. So, if you're interested in that sort of thing, take a peek for a half hour: kye, mercer and Emanuel 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Emanuel Posted November 27, 2023 Share Posted November 27, 2023 You da man @fuzzynormal ! :- ) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Emanuel Posted November 27, 2023 Share Posted November 27, 2023 Here's one co-produced and released a few years ago: fuzzynormal and kye 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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