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A short documentary on fire dancing and the flow arts, focusing on members of the SF Bay area fire performance community.

IDOM's official entry into the 2009 7 Day Film Festival. sevendayfilm.com

"Best Editing" winner, nominated for "Best Sound", "Audience Choice" and "Best Picture".

All original production completed between 6pm Friday, August 7th and 12pm Sunday, August 9th, 2009.

This version is the 'directors cut' with approximately one additional day of work (reshot an interview due to sound problems) completed after the competition ended bringing total production time to 3 days. We are now in the preliminary stages of planning a feature-length documentary on the fire arts community.

Music by 'i am this' - jamendo.com/en/artist/iamthis

"Stray Strumming", "Sea of Something", "Alesian Fields" and "Melody Gone"
from the album "Spinning Into Control" jamendo.com/en/album/6207

"King for a Day"
from the album "adhDJ" jamendo.com/en/album/6502

Shot on the Canon 5DmkII with the 24-105mm f/4L IS USM, Nikon 85mm f/2 AIS, Pentax SMC 50mm f/1.4 and Rokinon 28mm f/2.8 lenses. Audio via Countryman B6 recorded dual-system on a Zoom H4n and synced in Final Cut Pro using Pluraleyes.

For more information on fire performance, please visit:
spinagogue.net
vulcancrew.com
thecrucible.org
kindleonline.org

It Donned On Me is a competitive filmmaking team from San Francisco, CA. For more information on the team and additional films please visit ItDonnedOnMe.com

Some rights reserved: creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/

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  • dobro 2 years ago
    great video!
    love it!
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  • Ali Villavicencio 2 years ago
    Looks awesome bro what kind of rig or tripod did you use for the action shots?
  • It Donned On Me 2 years ago
    Those are all shot using an Induro MC14 - it's a super-light carbon fiber monopod. It's really flexible - collapsed and folded up it works well as a shoulder brace, extended part way you can brace against your hip or just handhold and let it counter-balance the camera movement, or of course fully extended use it like any other monopod. I think it's the most useful accessory I've got for the 5D right now.
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  • Harris Publishing plus 2 years ago
    I never even considered that. I dropped $400 on a GlideCam rig, which works very well, but all the time I've had a $40 Bogen monopod hibernating in my trunk. Ya, know, I'm an idiot.

    Nice work. I'd like to show a clip or two of the second interview for an internal workshop at my publishing company, if it's OK with you... (just PM me yay or nay...)
  • It Donned On Me 2 years ago
    Certainly - you're welcome to use it.
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  • Harris Publishing plus 2 years ago
    Also, could you describe the lighting setup for the interviews? It looks fantastic.
  • It Donned On Me 2 years ago
    Sure - we're using a Lowel DV Creator's Kit. Key is a Rifa 55, fill is an omni and we're using a pro light for the backlight. The room was fairly bright with light from a high skylight, rather than gel the lights we just split the difference with a white balance in the mid 4K range which gives the lights a bit of a warm look. We basically set up in the middle of the room and just rotated the camera and lights to a different angle for each person to give some variety in the backgrounds.
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  • Richard Gillespie 2 years ago
    Really nice. Well paced and constructed, congratulations to all involved. It's so nice to see something with a story wether it's shot on a 5D or a Fisher Price handycam. If I may make 2 comments. Not sure the music track needed to run through the whole piece you had some great sound from the actuality you shot that could have been used to greater effect. Don't be afraid just to cut, mixes always seem like you never really knew what to do. Keep up the good work!
  • It Donned On Me 2 years ago
    Thanks! Unfortunately we don't actually have much clean sound from the actual shoot - they were spinning to music which we don't have permission to use. It's definitely something we're going to be more aware of for future projects.
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  • Richard Gillespie 2 years ago
    It's so easy to be a critic when your watching Vimeo:-) You did a great job!
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  • Jon Truei 2 years ago
    Wow, Evan, this is great!
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  • Art Varga plus 2 years ago
    excellent work! I had only planned to watch for a few seconds. It sucked me in!
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  • Rick Macomber plus 2 years ago
    great subject matter for a short doc. well done!
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  • Rick Idak 2 years ago
    Any jello/rolling shutter problems?I ask as alot of people can correct it by sliding each line with some software programs.
    What about the codec is it very heavily compressed.
  • It Donned On Me 1 year ago
    No, not really much of a problem at all. Shooting handheld with the monopod attached makes a huge difference - small hand movements that would translate to relatively large rotational movement are almost eliminated, and that's what's most responsible for the jello look.

    Codec's fine. Prior to this camera we shot on HDV and the 5D's codec certainly holds up better. The lower noise of the sensor helps that out as well. There's a good deal of room to push/pull things in post as well - I recently had to run some DVCProHD footage through Color and was surprised by how brittle it was compared to the 5D footage, especially considering DVCProHD is 4:2:2 and 5D footage is 4:2:0. We don't use the native h.264 files in post at all though - as soon as they come out of the camera we convert them to Prores and work with that throughout post. Much faster that way and it holds up nicely through multiple generations.
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