Italian Cinelook
 

Hi everybody!

Finally I can post my first test about Canon XL2 Cinelook...

It's a kind of tribute to David Lynch...

I shooted in countryside a very bad and cloudly day, with 20x lens, manual focus, flat cine settings, PAL 25p, widescreen. Then I edited it in Premiere Pro 1.5 using Magic Bullet Editors to correct the color. No any kind of grain settings.

Here many Americans can read my post: I love the look and the feeling of US movies; I'm not speaking about themes and stories, but only about Photography and color correction. I think US movies have a fantastic image impact. In Italy there are several beautifull movies, wonderfull stories (life isi beautifull...) but our images are poor, flat.
I'm saying that, to introduce my test: I tried to simulate as I can as it's possible these american images.

I'd like to read your impression, critic and feelings.

Thanks everybody.

Michele Lombardo

my test:
http://utenti.lycos.it/canonxl2/Sant...ynchano_HQ.avi

right click "save as..."

I don't know if it looks like american images (I'm romanian), but I loved the look you've got! :) Was that 20X the original lens you've got with the camcorder?

Thanks very much!!!

Yes I used the 20x lens with flat cine settings.

Very nice! I havent seen that much of what the XL2 is capable of and you appear to have it figured out; very nice results. Interesting choice of score as I think it worked wonderfully and nice coloring.

Great job and super nice imagery!

Very nice looking shots there.

Just goes to show what the XL2 can do.

Good looking footage!

You use music from Twin Peaks, but apart from the focussing within shots it's not enough David Lynch for me. Lynch has a more stable, stylistic film style. Yesterday evening I watched Mulholland Drive again on the big screen at our local artcinema house., so I'm still in the mood ;-)

Nice DOF
 

Michele

I was impressed by the DOF you achieved in that clip, how was that done? Just zooming in from a distance?

excellent footage.
 

Dude:

good footage... i liked it alot. i just bought the xl2... looking forward to give a great look to my projects... juts like you did... i got one question, what kind of settings did you use to record that footage?

Thanks man.