thanks for blogging it!

oh I just now realized I never got back to you! We shot this on the Panasonic HVX200 with a Letus Ex lens adaptor.

thanks dude! I didn't know you had a vimeo!

yeah, but I haven't been using it as much as I'd like. I lost my original camera a few months ago so I went out recently and got a Sony AVCHD Camera. Really good handycam for what it's worth. I'm hoping to get some stuff up this January from my recent trips.

gotta love those lens adaptors!

Great job, really well done.
One observation:

Last dissapearance did not work for me very well.
Her reaction look was more of him walking away rather than dissapearing. I would have stayed closer to her face, let her eyes search his face up and down after she gave him the necklace and then pull back faster. Slow pull back of the camera gave (ME) also the illusion of him slowly walking away rather than disapearing,.
Loved it otherwise. Really great job! (You did ask for opinion?)

thanks for the input! :-)

I kinda agree with you on that one.
The closeup of the eyes or face would have been awesome!

I originally wanted to block him out by letting the sun flare into the camera but it didn't work as well as I planned.

Hey man! thanks for the compliments!

The only color correction I did was to make everything a tiny bit more contrasy and a tiny bit more orange, and then there are 3 shots of him walking after he finds the necklace where I made them either blue green or orange just to get some different colors in there and show the passing of time.

So as for shallow depth of field:

The best way to do it is with lens adaptors. But if you need something similar you can back the camera way off and then zoom in a bunch and that will help you out, make sure your f-stop # is as low as possible, like 1.2 or 1.4!

saint saens - aquarium (also can be found as aquarius)

hahahaha

That took the longest of any shot in here. We got it on like... the 8th or 9th try. Since it was a silent film we had the advantage of pat calling out commands at the proper time, so eventually it worked out.

Thanks man! I shot it in 720/24pn
then I just exported it from final cut uncompressed. then in quicktime I followed the vimeo FAQ settings for HD uploads, so it's compressed with H.264 with a 5000kb/s restriction on it, and the same dimensions.

I shoot with the Panasonic HVX200, it's a great video camera and it has the capabilities of shooting true slow motion up to 60fps! So what you're seeing is actual slow motion footage, and it's not manipulated at all in post.

Hey thanks! I use the Letus Extreme lens adaptor with a Nikon 50mm 1.4 and a Tamron 16-35 zoom for the wide angle shots.

thank you! I was a little unhappy with how much it goes in and out of focus but we were running out of sunset :-/

Thank you so much! I absolutely love the red! This specific video was shot with an HVX and a lens adaptor
Now all I'm doin' is waiting to pre-order the scarlet S35!

I know I uploaded the wrong video file, I'm re-uploading the one with the music I composed. we didn't want to infringe on the rights to the aquarium of the animals song.

There we go, problem solved