I made this short little video with footage from our Nepal trip. This just shows a fraction of what we experienced. I'm glad Zack was able to come with me and experience another part of the world.
Nepal is an amazing place!
For the camera peeps, I shot this on an Anamorphic lens adapter on the Gh5. 2X crop lens.
And used 35mm gorillagrain :)
Falling Lessons: Erasure One - A Short Film Direct by Anh Vu about Alzheimers Disease.
Based on the Poem by Beth Copeland about her experience with the onset of her dad’s Alzheimers Disease.
To learn more about Alzheimers go here please - http://www.alzfdn.org/
To read an interview with Beth Copeland please go here - http://www.writersdigest.com/whats-new/beth-copeland-poet-interview
TRT: 2 min
We used only three Ultra primes lenses, 16, 40, and 85mm - and a Red One MX camera - used hollywoodblack magic 1/4 and 1/8 for filtration and minimal lighting - mostly a joker 800 bounced and just a 1x1 lite panel. We had a really beautiful house to shoot in. Added film grain in post - gorilla grain - just to take some of the digital edge off.
Why not shoot on the Sony F35? Because we wanted to shoot up to 100 FPS. And why not the Alexa or Amira? - Because, wait maybe I could have scrounged one up from someone - oh well - we still got out of the old red one mx some really nice stuff and I don’t think people will be commenting that in the comment section - but maybe they will - so let’s see! Anyway in my testing perhaps the only camera would have made more of a difference for this would have been to shoot on film (but cost prohibitive for something of this scale), or maybe we should have shot f35 and just red one for the overcranked 100 FPS stuff but there would have been a possibility that the look would have not synced perfectly. Anyway!
Anh was a really amazing director to work with - and the whole production was really great. Anh has a special certain sensitivity to actor’s performances that was refreshing and also has a really great visual eye and knack for visual design. I was honored to work on this film.
For the coloring I used a visioncolor 500Tungsten cineon lut from reddragoncolor2 and redlogfilm to convert to Cineon and from there applied a kodak film print - I think 6000k don't remember the name of the film stock. I did a lot of secondary color correction to bring up faces and added gorilla grain and defocused the edges because I just watched Trois Colors: Blue and it has this look. That film looks so amazing - but anyway inspired by that.
The challenge with the red footage is how it works in tungsten lighting - skintones in this vs more daylight environments - also just how it handles saturation in general. I'm less technical about this than I wish, but playing with log level correction was able to fix up some skintones. Overall though the red one mx has a very robust image and a grain pattern I like naturally and I like how it does it slow motion.
Directed by Anh Vu - http://www.anh-vu.com/
Daughter - Meagan Lee Farrell - http://www.MeaganLeeFarrell.com
Father - Jeff Hackenberger
Producer - Nick Read
Director of Photography - Ed David http://www.kittyguerrilla.com
Editor - Jesse Coane - http://www.jessecoane.com/
Assistant Camera - John Larson
Gaffer - zeynep Catal
Production company - Psyop
Production coordinator - Faith Flynn
Assistant Producer/Jack of All Trades - Matt Creeden
Casting Director - Kristen Paladino
Colorist - Ed David
Directed by Anh Vu & Laurent Barthelemy
Director of Photography - Ed David
Producer- Jason Goldman
PM - Lizzy Mazer
Production company - Psyop and Smuggler
Shot in one day on the Sony F3 and Fs700 with Zeiss ZF lenses. Mostly the 18, 25, 35, 50, 85, and 100mm macro lens.
Shot slog on F3 - I don't know if slog was available at the time on fs700 so maybe shot at cine2.
We had no lights or grip - I really need to do this more - just the maxabeam flare light - it was an interesting challenge - maybe we got lucky but I always get so nervous and want a light or two but this Dogma 95 challenge was interesting especially since I rate the f3 and fs700 at 400 ASA :)
I love filming boxing - also love filming on a tight lens - don't be scared on the tight long lens you can still antipate where focus is and it's more exciting for the viewer. Being safe is never fun.
I used a 50d kodak emulation as a starting point, added a ton of blue and adjusted highlights, then went to a Fuji film print LUT. And added gorilla grain to give it more a 16mm boxing film grittiness from the good old days..
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Song composed by Micah Dahl Anderson @ micahdahl.com
Shooters: Aaron Sorenson @ youtube.com/aaronsbot Justin Ahlmann @ http://www.synergetikmedia.com/ Matt Butler @ https://vimeo.com/matthewbutler Chris Newman @ Film Grain by Gorilla Grain! Free Grain / Burns here! http://www.gorillagrain.com
Zip line, rigging, and expertise provided by Mike and Jason from Hansen Mountaineering and Vertical Rigging verticalrigging@gmail.com
Special thanks to Caru and the Krishna Family in Spanish Fork, Utah
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Film by: Matthew Butler
Cinematography by: Aaron Sorensen & Matthew Butler
Hair & Makeup: Rochelle Jahdi
Edited: Matthew Butler
Color and VFX: Aaron Sorenson
Grain by: www.gorillagrain.com
Filmed on the 5D mark ii
Lenses : Canon 28mm, 50mm w/ macro attachment
Filters : tiffen black pro mist , tiffen hdtv fx
Camera : Canon t3i // 600d
Bitrate : 2x
ISO : 160
grain : gorillagrain.com vintage grain w/ hair & dirt effects
music : Teams "Designer Black"
Color graded in colorista ii shot with cinema picture style
Band: Samestate
Song: Upside Down
Members: Dalton Diehl (lead), Darren Harms (slide guitar) and Ryan Lytle (percussion)
Directed, Shot and Edited by: Dave Altizer
Personal Assistant: Matt Altizer
Shot in Rosedale Mannor
Film grain from Gorilla Grain: http://gorillagrain.com/products
Shot on the RED SCARLET-X with Canon L Series Primes