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2. New York Farm City

by Petrina TV

10 months ago

1. Mermaid Parade 2010

by Petrina TV

1 year ago

In order to show how vegetables are grown in New York, we reversed what the plants do: We harvest in spring what we filmed in fall.

Video:
Petrina Engelke & Raul Mandru

Music:
"Mirleft" and "Half A Decade"
from the Album "Fox Hill Lane"

by Guy Buttery
guybuttery.bandcamp.com

guybuttery.co.za

Gina and Scott Keatley
Nourishing NYC
East Harlem
nourishingnyc.org

Ben Flanner and Anastasia Plakias
Brooklyn Grange Farm
Queens
brooklyngrangefarm.com

Patrick Connolly
Bobo
Greenwich Village
bobonyc.com

Daniel Bowman Simon
People’s Garden NYC
City Hall, Manhattan
peoplesgardennyc.org

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johannes.haverkamp 10 months ago

Beautiful Movie!
rui vieira 10 months ago

love it!
Michael Pearce 10 months ago

i like the mixtures of styles. The "miniature" and other shots integrate well. Nicely done!
Adrian Glasenapp 10 months ago

Very nice piece and a great story/msg.
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arbuckle industries 10 months ago

So much tilt shift! Very nice.
I am however sometimes perplexed by the actual location of the camera to get those angles and heights.
James White 10 months ago

I don't know if the lens flare starting at ~1:00 was meant to carry over to the next scene, but if it was, very impressive attention to detail. Great tilt shift also.
mamifero 10 months ago

coisa linda!
G3 10 months ago

The City Hall lawn looks good to me the way it is. Don't get me wrong, I love your idea and energy, but why not put this proposed garden on the City Hall roof, like in Chicago? Add some bees, too. Then tell the city to sell candles and honey labeled as "great gifts" and make it a two-way street. Kids can go to a roof.
TheBIT.TV 10 months ago

Awesome video technically and subject vise.
Something 10 months ago

too much contrast, but let's face it, i don't know anything about that stuff. it's just obvious that you edited the color. but the again, everyone does that.
overall: cool. nice job, man
Michael Louis 10 months ago

very moving emotionally and practically right on!
Another Cool Design 10 months ago

Fantastic piece. I didnt even finish it because i felt i got the gist of it within the first 50 seconds. Cheers!
Kelsey Heidarian 10 months ago

Beautifully shot!
Will Faulkner Films 10 months ago

Awesome. Well Done
Lee Evans 10 months ago

permaculture , nice piece , but i thought the colouring looked too graded, grading for grading sake,the plants veg etc looked artificial almost.I would have liked the grade to really have bought out the "nutritional look" of the produce.
great message though keep it up !!
Jeen m Thankappan 10 months ago

bravo!!
Lisa Kassner 10 months ago

I like this video a lot!
grunasfamily 10 months ago

Nice
jeriko1kenobi 10 months ago

love it!!
Aidan Weltner 10 months ago

everybody living in a city should be doing this. the video was very well put together too.
Timothée Gauthier 10 months ago

THe video gave to much away too soon, as the person who stopped watching 50 seconds in was right.

Also the audio of the interviews was to varied in quality, volume and gain should be adjusted to make them all similar, as well as removing wind/noise from the audio.

it is alright to actually go back and redub the audio (get them into a studio to say what they had said before again exactly the same way), or if they are uncomfortable retake those shots with a better mic (a lapel mic with their back to the wind, or a boom with a good sock held low to the ground pointing up (so it isn't up in the wind or casting shadows).

less grading would also help to make it looks a bit nicer, grade to make it cohesive, but don't grade to pop quite as much, i'd say go more for colour definition and back off a bit on saturation.

:) Great subject, wish I could be eating them veggies with my steak tonight!
Timothée Gauthier 10 months ago

also, maybe talk to them about what they do during the winter, maybe a bit how they actually DO make the growing conditions work well, go a bit deeper into the hows of the subject. make it easier for other people to get their own gardens going. Hang out with the chief more for the "whys" it is good for you, then someone else for the hows.
Hassan Saddiq 10 months ago

"THe video gave to much away too soon, as the person who stopped watching 50 seconds in was right."

just wondering, how would you have filmed/edited this video? what would you have taken out/delayed for later etc etc

I'm just trying to see what they might have done wrong so I can learn from it

THanks

Ps. I watched the whole video and liked it and the story behind it
Nahuel882 10 months ago

what matters is the message, not your pseudo concepts ..
Timothée Gauthier 10 months ago

what IS the message? And how can one act on it?
David Jin 10 months ago

wow~ gooooood!
Natural Causes 10 months ago

love the quotes. awesome work. even more awesome shots. love your color. solid audio. thank you.
The New Pop 10 months ago

Very cool video. I posted it on my blog along with the following blurb.

"Their is a humble integrity that farmers exude that I think comes from living off the land. The experience of looking at their produce is akin to looking at artworks in a museum. This video by Petrina Engelke and Raul Mandru reminds me of that feeling. Their tilt-shift..."

TrVZ

blog.thenewpop.com/?p=9442
Lori Kramer 10 months ago

I am so inspired by this video....love the whole production and most especially the idea & the people behind the idea. Keep planting and sharing. :))
Mario C 10 months ago

I wonder how LA would look like with that lense. Its looks awesome.
segitary 10 months ago

do the right thing
electrolito 10 months ago

inspiring =D
Joseph Hung 10 months ago

Fantastic. Beat me to it.

What camera setup did you shoot with?
Petrina TV 10 months ago

We shot it with a 7D
lenses:
canon 50mm, 1.2
tokina 11-16mm, 2.8
canon tele 55-250mm for the tilt shift perspective,
added the lens focal blur in After effects,

thanks for the great feedback everyone
Blagger 10 months ago

Did you add tilt-shift effect to each seperate photo in each short time lapse scene? Were they done individually or batch processed?

Great film BTW
Petrina TV 10 months ago

we used the canon tele 55-250mm all the way to 250mm for the tilt shift perspective, then added the lens blur in After Effects, by painting a mask in photoshop that would match each shot individually. Imported after the masks in AE and added them in the lens blur effect.

We realized that it's more important to get close enough to the details and achieve the isometric perspective right that makes everything look like the Sims perspective or the illustrations of Eboy.
Ben Cronje 10 months ago

Inspiring stuff. Just imagine all gardens on all city buildings
Redeemer Fellowship 10 months ago

Inspiring. I love this film! The tilt-shift done in post looks great. Well done.
DSLR Feed 10 months ago

Loved everything about this video!
PJ Palomaki 10 months ago

Great piece, love the tilt-shift. Great 'earthy' feel, I guess the subject matter helps!

The only two things that grind a bit is the audio quality and cut at times and the video has quite a few black and color flash frames which are distracting (ie. 00:34, 2:29, 3:30)

But all in all very beautiful piece! I want some vegs for lunch now!
XOXO Wedding Studio 10 months ago

Great video.
Love the Time-Lapse.
Audio sounds great too!

But that fake lens flare at 1:00?
And not only is the same exact lens flare used twice but back to back? I think an average viewer would notice that.
Both shots we great awesome with out the flare.
Nelson Reyes 10 months ago

Nice work!!! what camera did you use?
Andrew Kaplan 10 months ago

Reminds me why I shoot on a 7D. I have to side with the producer's choice of color grading, saturation, contrast, etc. It's very clear that these elements were highly manipulated and they do draw attention to themselves. But I believe it works very well in this instance, as the atypical use of filters adds a rarefied aspect to the somewhat atypical practice of farming in one of the world's largest metropolises. For me, the effects heighten the beautiful strangeness and significance of what these people are doing every day.
abdul ghaffar 9 months ago

V inspiring wonderful
jramos 9 months ago

I may be doing a video similar this one for the city of Chicago. How many FPS did you shoot with the 7D, what resolution and for how long.

Thanks for your help!
Petrina TV 9 months ago

we shot at 1920x1080 24fps and the tilt shift footage is sped up at 1-2fps
Tomas Pir 9 months ago

i appreciate of what are they doing.
My observation: New York City environment has so colossal air pollution, that they can not declare the food products as ECO or BIO (even they are not using pesticides,..., as they said) otherwise it's a customer deception.
tareq9999 9 months ago

Very nice video
Portable 9 months ago

This has given us so many new places to eat and shop in the city! We featured it here portable.tv/talks/post/urban-farming-in-nyc/
Ana Trkulja 8 months ago

Gardens on roofs of NYC :0) :0) :0)
Valentina López 8 months ago

Absolutely beautiful!
Phlow 8 months ago

Congrats to more than 100.000 views!
Marion Schönegger 8 months ago

great! I wanna do that to when I move to San Francisco at the end of the year
storyful 8 months ago

Thanks for sharing this on Storyful.com/community - lovely story and beautifully put together.
MMSH 7 months ago

great timelapses +++++
Felipe Carrelli 6 months ago

good job! love the image, the colours and the tilt shift.
JULIAN 4 months ago

great job guys !!!!!!!!!
Arthur Sakhkalyan 2 weeks ago

the cars pollution is lighter than the air so it goes up, on the roofs you will have an extremly polluted veggies
COLTO 2 weeks ago

Cool !
Check this out! this is our reality in Milan
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