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Shot using the Sony EX1 and Letus Ultimate on a rare sunny day in Southend-On-Sea in Essex.

A short film that captures the feel of a day at a typical British seaside town.

Music is by Charles Trenet "La Mer"

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Moayad Hassan 2 years ago

Lovely warm colours, represents the warmth of the weather very well. You managed to catch some very funny moments as well :p
Harriet 2 years ago

01:01
nicceeeeee.
British and proud haaha!
Philip Bloom 2 years ago

there were some moments too ugly for the Vimeo audience!
ße ωell ;-) 2 years ago

This does Southend proud ;-)

Did you do this last Bank Holiday week? Looks like that was our summer...
3d60 2 years ago

not so fast.......there will be more.....................please blet there be more as i get the winter bedding back out again....dho
Philip Bloom 2 years ago

I did it last weekend, I hear we may have a sunny day in late September
ße ωell ;-) 2 years ago

bugger! - hope we have many more in between - hehehe :D

Great stuff once again and its always a pleasure watching your work - thumbs up :)
chiu 2 years ago

great works and editing Phil!
What lens your r using?
Philip Bloom 2 years ago

loads of different lenses, but mostly on a nikon 17-35mm f2.8 zoom, 80-200 f2.8 zoom and a sigma 135-400 f3.5-5.6 zoom
pda.pl 2 years ago

love the music, it goes well whit what you shot.
Philip Bloom 2 years ago

thanks, it's a favourite track of mine
Ingenious TV 2 years ago

I love the composition of the shots. What an amazing variety of people you captured! Another Bloom-ing marvelous clip.
Philip Bloom 2 years ago

Thanks Alister. I see what you did with my surname there you old wag you!
John Richardson 2 years ago

fantastic day at the beach... looked to be a long one too! the mood you wanted to relay was set perfectly by the music... great choice.
Philip Bloom 2 years ago

I was there a while from about midday till 630pm
3d60 2 years ago

classic shots, over cranked for the still / film effect, glourious....................no way would I have gone in that water!!!!
Philip Bloom 2 years ago

like most of my shorts there is a cameo in there...and yes I did get wet for the sake of my art!!
[ PIXEL VIKING ] 2 years ago

Funny... and very British looking :)

I'm pretty sure those people would really hate that music - or am I wrong? :)
Philip Bloom 2 years ago

actually a lot of them weren't actually English. All the people in the end credits, bar the black girl were Lithaunian. Am sure you can spot the brits in the rest but a lot of them were Polish and whether they would have preferred Bobby Darrin's version? Probably! But, being a half frenchie and half englisher I don't care!
Gabriel Florit 2 years ago

I love it! Is that you at the end, with the red shirt? I think we've seen that shirt before. Anyways very evocative, great work as usual.
Philip Bloom 2 years ago

nope. it was my feet stepping into the water!
Philip Bloom 2 years ago

what red shirt is that? can't see a shot with one? I think you meant my red waterproof coat from South Bank!
Daniel Loomis 2 years ago

I normally do not enjoy "Day at the Beach" videos, but yours is the exception. I recognized the music from Russell Crowe's "A Good Year," one of my recent favorites.

While there were a number of shallow DOF shots, I did not see all that many that could not have been obtained with the very fine Fujinon lens on the EX1 in telephoto. Just curious what the Letus gives you in setting up your shots. Quite obviously they work!
Philip Bloom 2 years ago

Thanks Daniel. Well apart from the film look, which is rather more "organic" and less harsh than video it gave me the ability to use a wide range of different lenses, like the 17mm Nikon and the 400mm Sigma. There actually was a lot of shallow depth of field, much more than you could get with the stock lens. You'd be suprised. I would like to one day do a short with two cameras side by side to show just how different the adaptor makes things look.

Charles Trenet wrote the piece on a train journey in the South of France and it was later rewritten in English and sung by Bobby Darrin "Beyond the Sea"
Daniel Loomis 2 years ago

Philip. It is hard to argue with success. Keep making us smile!
Philip Bloom 2 years ago

cheers Daniel
Bewegtbildarbeiter 2 years ago

Fantastic! Think it's your best one.
Philip Bloom 2 years ago

That's very kind of you.
mikehedge 2 years ago

wow. how did you do the slow mo at 01:51
Philip Bloom 2 years ago

Ah that was shot normal speed and I used the amazing slow mo plug in Twixtor at about 10% speed. It can have amazing effects on the right shot, the resolution becomes a little blurry sometimes and if things cross over it goes a bit weird. This is the slowest I have done one before.
Stephen Lewis 2 years ago

Awesome colors, did you capture such saturated colors in the ex1 or did you squeeze them out with Magic Bullet? I am having a hard time getting saturated colors without making it look too "cartoonish." I aspire to someday shoot a video with you... any plans to come to California anytime soon?
Philip Bloom 2 years ago

Magic Bullet but tweaked heavily by me as the preset I used was way too saturated. Amazing how washed out the footage looked after I treated it.

Not sure about California. I hope so soon. Who knows!
SteveR 2 years ago

And people say Americans are fat! I think we're catching up.
Philip Bloom 2 years ago

Those were American tourists...kidding!
greenjelly film 2 years ago

After growing up in a kentish seaside town, and now living in Innsbruck, your film made me extremely nostalgic and a little homesick. very nice.
Global warming is sure taking hold.
Philip Bloom 2 years ago

Cheers. Love to film in Innsbruck!
mintyslippers.com 2 years ago

Such lovely vibrant colours, and that film look. Is that just 24p or some other wonderful trickery. Who would think we brits have any bad weather after watching that.
mintyslippers.com 2 years ago

Infact, the colours looks exactly like an old photo of me and my brother at the beach my parents took back in the 80's. Totally spooky and pure genius.
Philip Bloom 2 years ago

Cheers Danny that is what I was going for
Bill 2 years ago

This was such a blast from the past Phillip. I was born in Romford and used to be dragged to Southend as a kid each year. It hasnt changed 35 years down the line. Beautiful film.
Philip Bloom 2 years ago

Glad you liked it Bill. Amazing how little changes. A few more chavs than when you were there though I guess!
Schräs 2 years ago

highly entertaining! great film as always. slomo works so well with the sea/water.
i also want to know, how much the "bullet"-treatment pushes the colors, and how it would look straight out of cam.
here and there i think the reds are very intense, but thats just a like or dislike.
thanks for putting out that much of content in that superb quality!
Philip Bloom 2 years ago

quite a lot. I will post some stills on my blog soon of treated vs untreated pics
Jip Eilbracht 2 years ago

You are getting better with every short. Although it's hard to get any better, because the shorts already look so amazing!
ANTHONY JACKSON 2 years ago

This is such a beautiful video.
Sony cams are the best.I like the colors,and the movement.You did A wonderful job on this.
I like it A lot.
Mark Holmes 2 years ago

The usual Bloom brilliance. Especially loved the composition with the two older men bookending the girl at :50.
Philip Bloom 2 years ago

Glad you mentioned that. Easily my favourite shot. They way they walked in time with each other was perfect.
kruzer 2 years ago

nice work
Todd Burleson 2 years ago

Terrific! I love the humor and of course the imagery and resolution is spectacular!

Love the depth of field and colors.

TB
Greg Wallis 2 years ago

OK, here's a question: with the unpalatable political correctness scene here in Blighty, and plod wanting to arrest anyone they can get hold of for taking pictures of anything they don't want you to, what was the reaction from ordinary folk on the beach (particularly with the number of young children around), and did you generally ask permission to film? This always concerns me and I'm never too sure how to handle it myself.

Oh, and up to your usual exceptionally high standards; yet another film as an example of what's possible to achieve by the ordinary man. (Not that you are :)
Philip Bloom 2 years ago

Ah! the trick is don't have a small camera. My rig was quite large and I had Craig standing next to me most of the time so I didn't look like a pervert. If i had an HV20 and was sitting there filming people I would have got nutted. The more professional you look the less hassle you get. The opposite of most other places!

I asked permission of some people, with the 400mm I could get people from very far away being very natural!
Greg Wallis 2 years ago

Yes, this makes a lot of sense. Now, me with my HG10 (even smaller than the HV20!) will have to undergo a makeover then — do you think a heavily disguised cornflake box on top of it would do? :) (Or maybe a T-shirt with "Camera Crew"...)
Stephen Lewis 2 years ago

I would go with a T-Shirt that says "Not videotaping young unsuspecting children... move along."
walt 2 years ago

more magic bullet and time lapse, neat i guess
Philip Bloom 2 years ago

magic what? Time what? Whassthat?
walt 2 years ago

but 00:48 kept it interesting
Philip Bloom 2 years ago

pervert
Stephen Lewis 2 years ago

Maybe he meant 00:38, lets hope!
walt 2 years ago

right, i didn't mean that!

... i meant 00:42
Aaron B. Smith 2 years ago

Oh so lovely.
Robin 2 years ago

You inspire me, Philip. Out of curiosity, what do you use for color grading? and editing suite (FCP, Vegas, Premiere)?
Philip Bloom 2 years ago

Thanks! I use FCP and Magic Bullet Looks
Charles Lowthian 2 years ago

Doug: We've got sandy beaches.
Avi: so, who the f....
:D (Snatch, 2000)

Just curious, did you try an elastic band for the timelapse pan?
And was that a very slow Wolly ending?

Nice work Philip.
A favourite of your shorts.

=)
Philip Bloom 2 years ago

Hi Charles, The timelapse pan is really slow. About twenty minutes. Only the motorized head would do the trick.

Yes to Wally Dolly at the end. If you go to my blog you can read about my failed attempt to try a timelapse dolly shot, hence in the end just went for a reallly smooth and slow track back.
Glenn (avene.org) 2 years ago

Philip, I think I've spotted your cameo, at 1.00? You've shaved your head, put on some weight and got yourself a couple of tattoos by the look of it ;)

Looks great by the way. Plenty of interesting footage and lots of vibrant colours. I'd be curious to see a before and after though? To see how far you tweak that Magic Bullet.
Project Overseer Productions 2 years ago

I'm fast becoming a fan of your work Philip ... you're a `people` watcher, and what a strange bunch of mamals we are, nothing else like us on the planet lol.

I love the EX1 ... I'll have one in a few months. Did you see they've released 32Gb memory sticks with plans for 64Gb cards later in the year?

I wish Sony developed the EX1 around a 100Gb internal hard drive for general filming, and memory sticks for special effects - though it is possible to plug the Ex1 into an outboard hard drive, but its costly.
Maz1878 2 years ago

did you get alot of people coming up to you when filming this?
adonis 2 years ago

The "sand" doesn't look especially comfortable, but I guess you go to the beach with the sand you've got, not the sand you want ;). That walking shot at :50 is just brilliant. Good stuff once again.
Jon Rawlinson 2 years ago

Another fantastic piece of work! Looks like a lovely day in the UK.
Bo Lorentzen 2 years ago

great - great viewing.
Tripp 2 years ago

Wonderful. Not glamorous. Just honest and a bit tender. I like that.

I like "La Mer". First heard it when I saw "LA Story". You had to live there to get that movie. I did, and I did.
eric 2 years ago

i would stay at home rather than watching so many flat guys' ugly B!
matthew strong 2 years ago

ok, now do romford

:)
Philip Bloom 2 years ago

i did, it was the short oddly called "kew gardens", i just made it look greener and prettier

seriousy, that would be a challenge too far!
Michael C Williams 2 years ago

Hands down, one of the funniest scenes was the guy scratching is rear, or would that be arse for you Brits?...lol.

Your work Phil has been a great contributing factor for me in picking the EX-1 as the camera I need to get. Now to get the clients willing to pay for HD. Always enjoy seeing your beautiful work.
Philip Bloom 2 years ago

he was doing it for a good minute! could have done a short just on that!
james bondaygee 2 years ago

That was a lovely video! Great Song too!
Luke 2 years ago

great!!!
Ivan 2 years ago

Of course, again, this is brillant, but I like the opening shot best: the walking woman with kids echoes the movement of the train in the distance. Great shot!
Euan Preston 2 years ago

Joy.
Andy Lawson - www.JoopMedia.com 2 years ago

LOL, and we just uploaded a beach movie thinking it was a good effort for the first day out with our new EX1 camera... now i'm ebarrassed!!!... you are my inspiration Philly pooh's!! ;)

Cheers

Andy
Philip Bloom 2 years ago

cheers andy!
monso 2 years ago

awesomeeeeeeeeeee.wow
Rick Horton 2 years ago

That beach is disgustingly dirty. OMG... I thought we were bad in USA with pollution!
Philip Bloom 2 years ago

i put all the trash there, you know artistic license
Allan Alejandrino 2 years ago

Inspirational!
Kjewbee 2 years ago

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Rob Evans 2 years ago

Great, Philip, who needs words when pictures can tell so much...
Nowawes 2 years ago

Excellent!
DoP Jonas Nyström 2 years ago

Philip! Good choice of music. Good footage (as always) - I get a nice Martin Parr feeling. Nice grading. Always nice to see your stuff. Cheers // Jonas
ivan 2 years ago

beautiful, beautiful stuff...
Ivan Ciego 2 years ago

Your work is awesome. My favorite piece was at 03:10. Great Job and I love the warm color.
Alex Ponce de León 1 year ago

Being from the Caribbean I must admit at how disturbing it is to watch a beach as dirty as this... and I have to second Steve R's comment about fat people in America... seems they are not the only ones!

Asides from that... inspiring work you are doing my friend! Fantastic quality! Cheers!
Vince Roelofs 1 year ago

Fantastic short documentary Philip!
Not too thrilled abt the choice of music though.
This reminds me a little of the beach scenes in Bert Haanstra's masterpiece documentary 'Alleman' (1963)
tifredic 1 year ago

wow !!!!! merci pour Charles Trenet :)
Vid�o exceptionnelle !!!
my new vimeo n�1.
thanks for sharing it ! give us morreeeeeee
IndexPro 1 year ago

beautifully shot video, very delicate and humane,
what were the export settings u went for cos im sorta battling it out here with my ex trying to get the highest resolution without the file weighing tons..
Philip Bloom 1 year ago

export for web or something else?
IndexPro 1 year ago

web =]
Kevin Gordon 1 year ago

A truly wonderful video. I've watched it multiple times already. Seeing what you've done with the EX1 was actually instrumental in convincing me to buy one for myself! Thanks.
monso 1 year ago

magic bullet?