Simon Heymans
April 11th, 2008, 05:48 AM
Hi everyone,
We shot a couple of months ago (october/november 2007) while it was still sunny and nice outside a music video for a rock/pop band Henry Bliss & The Sidewalkers www.hbliss.com.
Although the group was produced by a big music studio here in Belgium (Dada Studios) it was a very low budget as always but great to shoot. We were mainly 2 technicians on the shoot, the DP: Romain Ferrand and myself except for the car sequence we had Demosthene Stellas (editor/colourist). It took us 3.5 days to shoot. 1.5 days for the car sequence and 2 days for the rest. We also had a small crane for some of the shots.
We shot it with a JCV HD 111e in 50p with a 35mm adaptor. We used Paulo Ciconne HD100 Scene file recipe: True Color V3. We never added Gain (except for the train sequence) but I noticed after shooting that on some shots the gain had been turned on by error, sniff!
We shot everything in 50p because we wanted to do a lot of slow-motion but in the end we didn't use it. The disadvantage of shooting in 50p with this model is that your are limited to 720*576. However with Cineform we upconverted to 1280*720 which gave excellent results.
We kept the color temperature to 5600K. We had little extra lights for this shooting except one HMI for a few shots, mainly when the guy exists the car.
The sun was our friend really, without him it would have been impossible to light for such a low budget. We had on the other hand a few reflectors which helped a lot.
However the shots where the guy runs and comes out of the buidling we didn't use any extra lights or even reflectors.
We had 3 lenses, a 50mm f1.4, a 85mm f1.8 and a 24mm f2. The adaptor is home-made but wouldn't have been possible without the help of Wayne Kinney, the developper of the Sgpro. We spent a lot of time on developping it. However if you are looking for a 35mm adaptor I truly believe that the Sgpro is the best one, with a great filmic bokeh.
We captured everything with Cineform Aspect HD, flipped the image (due to adapator), upconverted to 1280*720. We did the editing in Premiere, exported uncompressed to After Effects and made the CC with Colorista and Levels mainly…We applied two color themes, a blue-cold color to the businessman and a warm-gold color to the singer and to the after car scene!
Here are some pictures (storyboard, original image, cc'd image) - too bad I can't embed them, not as easy to see:
Usually we don't draw all the shots so one drawing would give us a few shots
Storyboard
http://www.postimage.org/aV1rh2tA.jpg (http://www.postimage.org/image.php?v=aV1rh2tA)
http://www.postimage.org/aV1rlGji.jpg (http://www.postimage.org/image.php?v=aV1rlGji)
http://www.postimage.org/Pq1NIHpS.jpg (http://www.postimage.org/image.php?v=Pq1NIHpS)
http://www.postimage.org/Pq1NIRor.jpg (http://www.postimage.org/image.php?v=Pq1NIRor)
http://www.postimage.org/Pq1NIOUi.jpg (http://www.postimage.org/image.php?v=Pq1NIOUi)
http://www.postimage.org/aV1rhXQS.jpg (http://www.postimage.org/image.php?v=aV1rhXQS)
http://www.postimage.org/Pq1NIYSS.jpg (http://www.postimage.org/image.php?v=Pq1NIYSS)
http://www.postimage.org/aV1ri4ki.jpg (http://www.postimage.org/image.php?v=aV1ri4ki)
http://www.postimage.org/aV1rieiS.jpg (http://www.postimage.org/image.php?v=aV1rieiS)
Other storyboard pictures + shot :
http://www.postimage.org/aV1rp9OS.jpg (http://www.postimage.org/image.php?v=aV1rp9OS)
http://www.postimage.org/aV1rsBPi.jpg (http://www.postimage.org/image.php?v=aV1rsBPi)
http://www.postimage.org/Pq1NM0WS.jpg (http://www.postimage.org/image.php?v=Pq1NM0WS)
http://www.postimage.org/aV1rsrQJ.jpg (http://www.postimage.org/image.php?v=aV1rsrQJ)
http://www.postimage.org/aV1rpDKA.jpg (http://www.postimage.org/image.php?v=aV1rpDKA)
http://www.postimage.org/Pq1NN2NA.jpg (http://www.postimage.org/image.php?v=Pq1NN2NA)
http://www.postimage.org/aV1rpSIr.jpg (http://www.postimage.org/image.php?v=aV1rpSIr)
http://www.postimage.org/aV1rswQ0.jpg (http://www.postimage.org/image.php?v=aV1rswQ0)
More before & after CC:
http://www.postimage.org/Pq1NL44r.jpg (http://www.postimage.org/image.php?v=Pq1NL44r)
http://www.postimage.org/aV1rmocS.jpg (http://www.postimage.org/image.php?v=aV1rmocS)
http://www.postimage.org/Pq1NKG80.jpg (http://www.postimage.org/image.php?v=Pq1NKG80)
http://www.postimage.org/aV1rmKF9.jpg (http://www.postimage.org/image.php?v=aV1rmKF9)
http://www.postimage.org/aV1rmvHi.jpg (http://www.postimage.org/image.php?v=aV1rmvHi)
http://www.postimage.org/Pq1NK_59.jpg (http://www.postimage.org/image.php?v=Pq1NK_59)
http://www.postimage.org/aV1rmAGA.jpg (http://www.postimage.org/image.php?v=aV1rmAGA)
http://www.postimage.org/aV1rmUDJ.jpg (http://www.postimage.org/image.php?v=aV1rmUDJ)
This last image was almost not CC as we had already the final image in camera, thanks to the sun!
You can see the music video on www.rochprod.com under portfolio. There is a link also to the youtube video for faster reading (but lower quality): www.youtube.com/watch?v=DvfUcRqKxto
Or directly on the band's website: www.hbliss.com
Last but not least I want to thank everyone from Dvinfo.net who helped me answer some of my questions, Paulo Ciconne for HD True colour recipe, Wayne Kinneyfrom www.shoot35.com for the great help on giving some of his knowledge for building the adapter, and Nicholas Bartlheet from www.Pixelloft.com for the great inspiration of his music-videos.
Looking forwards for your remarks/comments.
Simon
We shot a couple of months ago (october/november 2007) while it was still sunny and nice outside a music video for a rock/pop band Henry Bliss & The Sidewalkers www.hbliss.com.
Although the group was produced by a big music studio here in Belgium (Dada Studios) it was a very low budget as always but great to shoot. We were mainly 2 technicians on the shoot, the DP: Romain Ferrand and myself except for the car sequence we had Demosthene Stellas (editor/colourist). It took us 3.5 days to shoot. 1.5 days for the car sequence and 2 days for the rest. We also had a small crane for some of the shots.
We shot it with a JCV HD 111e in 50p with a 35mm adaptor. We used Paulo Ciconne HD100 Scene file recipe: True Color V3. We never added Gain (except for the train sequence) but I noticed after shooting that on some shots the gain had been turned on by error, sniff!
We shot everything in 50p because we wanted to do a lot of slow-motion but in the end we didn't use it. The disadvantage of shooting in 50p with this model is that your are limited to 720*576. However with Cineform we upconverted to 1280*720 which gave excellent results.
We kept the color temperature to 5600K. We had little extra lights for this shooting except one HMI for a few shots, mainly when the guy exists the car.
The sun was our friend really, without him it would have been impossible to light for such a low budget. We had on the other hand a few reflectors which helped a lot.
However the shots where the guy runs and comes out of the buidling we didn't use any extra lights or even reflectors.
We had 3 lenses, a 50mm f1.4, a 85mm f1.8 and a 24mm f2. The adaptor is home-made but wouldn't have been possible without the help of Wayne Kinney, the developper of the Sgpro. We spent a lot of time on developping it. However if you are looking for a 35mm adaptor I truly believe that the Sgpro is the best one, with a great filmic bokeh.
We captured everything with Cineform Aspect HD, flipped the image (due to adapator), upconverted to 1280*720. We did the editing in Premiere, exported uncompressed to After Effects and made the CC with Colorista and Levels mainly…We applied two color themes, a blue-cold color to the businessman and a warm-gold color to the singer and to the after car scene!
Here are some pictures (storyboard, original image, cc'd image) - too bad I can't embed them, not as easy to see:
Usually we don't draw all the shots so one drawing would give us a few shots
Storyboard
http://www.postimage.org/aV1rh2tA.jpg (http://www.postimage.org/image.php?v=aV1rh2tA)
http://www.postimage.org/aV1rlGji.jpg (http://www.postimage.org/image.php?v=aV1rlGji)
http://www.postimage.org/Pq1NIHpS.jpg (http://www.postimage.org/image.php?v=Pq1NIHpS)
http://www.postimage.org/Pq1NIRor.jpg (http://www.postimage.org/image.php?v=Pq1NIRor)
http://www.postimage.org/Pq1NIOUi.jpg (http://www.postimage.org/image.php?v=Pq1NIOUi)
http://www.postimage.org/aV1rhXQS.jpg (http://www.postimage.org/image.php?v=aV1rhXQS)
http://www.postimage.org/Pq1NIYSS.jpg (http://www.postimage.org/image.php?v=Pq1NIYSS)
http://www.postimage.org/aV1ri4ki.jpg (http://www.postimage.org/image.php?v=aV1ri4ki)
http://www.postimage.org/aV1rieiS.jpg (http://www.postimage.org/image.php?v=aV1rieiS)
Other storyboard pictures + shot :
http://www.postimage.org/aV1rp9OS.jpg (http://www.postimage.org/image.php?v=aV1rp9OS)
http://www.postimage.org/aV1rsBPi.jpg (http://www.postimage.org/image.php?v=aV1rsBPi)
http://www.postimage.org/Pq1NM0WS.jpg (http://www.postimage.org/image.php?v=Pq1NM0WS)
http://www.postimage.org/aV1rsrQJ.jpg (http://www.postimage.org/image.php?v=aV1rsrQJ)
http://www.postimage.org/aV1rpDKA.jpg (http://www.postimage.org/image.php?v=aV1rpDKA)
http://www.postimage.org/Pq1NN2NA.jpg (http://www.postimage.org/image.php?v=Pq1NN2NA)
http://www.postimage.org/aV1rpSIr.jpg (http://www.postimage.org/image.php?v=aV1rpSIr)
http://www.postimage.org/aV1rswQ0.jpg (http://www.postimage.org/image.php?v=aV1rswQ0)
More before & after CC:
http://www.postimage.org/Pq1NL44r.jpg (http://www.postimage.org/image.php?v=Pq1NL44r)
http://www.postimage.org/aV1rmocS.jpg (http://www.postimage.org/image.php?v=aV1rmocS)
http://www.postimage.org/Pq1NKG80.jpg (http://www.postimage.org/image.php?v=Pq1NKG80)
http://www.postimage.org/aV1rmKF9.jpg (http://www.postimage.org/image.php?v=aV1rmKF9)
http://www.postimage.org/aV1rmvHi.jpg (http://www.postimage.org/image.php?v=aV1rmvHi)
http://www.postimage.org/Pq1NK_59.jpg (http://www.postimage.org/image.php?v=Pq1NK_59)
http://www.postimage.org/aV1rmAGA.jpg (http://www.postimage.org/image.php?v=aV1rmAGA)
http://www.postimage.org/aV1rmUDJ.jpg (http://www.postimage.org/image.php?v=aV1rmUDJ)
This last image was almost not CC as we had already the final image in camera, thanks to the sun!
You can see the music video on www.rochprod.com under portfolio. There is a link also to the youtube video for faster reading (but lower quality): www.youtube.com/watch?v=DvfUcRqKxto
Or directly on the band's website: www.hbliss.com
Last but not least I want to thank everyone from Dvinfo.net who helped me answer some of my questions, Paulo Ciconne for HD True colour recipe, Wayne Kinneyfrom www.shoot35.com for the great help on giving some of his knowledge for building the adapter, and Nicholas Bartlheet from www.Pixelloft.com for the great inspiration of his music-videos.
Looking forwards for your remarks/comments.
Simon