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2. V.I.P. (24 hours)
5 months ago
V.I.P. is a short film shot in under 24 hours on the Canon Mark II 5D. I have just come off
Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen with Industrial Light & Magic and had hit home for a much needed
holiday. After a year and three months I truly learned a lot from Michael Bay, not in the least was his ability to shoot a variety of sequences and footage very fast and efficiently.
With this in mind I basically set myself the task to shoot as much usable footage in under 24 hours.
I called in family and local enthusiasts, wrote a shot list the night before and smashed it all together in a very
exciting 18 hours.
Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen with Industrial Light & Magic and had hit home for a much needed
holiday. After a year and three months I truly learned a lot from Michael Bay, not in the least was his ability to shoot a variety of sequences and footage very fast and efficiently.
With this in mind I basically set myself the task to shoot as much usable footage in under 24 hours.
I called in family and local enthusiasts, wrote a shot list the night before and smashed it all together in a very
exciting 18 hours.
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Which lenses did you use?
Any lights or was it all natural lighting?
I used the following old F mount prime manual lenses.
nikkor f/1.4 - 24mm super wide
nikkor f/1.8 - 50mm
nikkor f/2.8 - 135mm
Most of VIP is with the 50mm.
135mm on all scope shots and very few wides using the 24mm. Mainly during the VIP rescue/int. scene and Hummer sequence. I can hardly remember even changing the lens...all went by too fast:)
Now the firmware is out there I can use my canon zoom lenses for a variation of focal lengths as well.
Lighting was a mixed bag. Where I could I tried to shoot using the best use of the natural light whilst still keeping some consistency from shot to shot. Interior shots are dark, because of lack of proper lighting setups. Overall, it was mostly running around the living room taking the caps off lamps and asking people to hold lights high overhead in certain directions.
Long story short: no professional lights:)
Cheers.
Were you working with a full rig for your Mark-II 5D (base plate, rods, grips, shoulder-pad, and a follow focus)? If not how did you manage to get some of those great focus pulls?
Thanks for letting me pick your brain. Oh, and by the way, while your camera work is obviously amazing... your trigger-pull technique was awful! I'm surprised you even hit the window, man... LOL ;~)
high water:
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low water:
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