So Long Tumblr
OK - I’ve moved over to Posterous for anyone following this. You can find me at www.smalltown.co.nz
I might be back on Tumblr - we’ll see how it goes…
OK - I’ve moved over to Posterous for anyone following this. You can find me at www.smalltown.co.nz
I might be back on Tumblr - we’ll see how it goes…
Tumblr is making me mad. For some reason all of my posts are now out of order. WTF.
So it’s been a while since I put anything up here. I’ve been capturing footage everyday (which is the point of my 100 day project) but don’t have time to edit and post at the moment. I imagine there will be a flurry of activity over the next few days though…
I’ll add notes for this tomorrow but as you can see it’s gratuitous use of lens flares. All shot on the iPhone 4 with no grade. Needs more of a refined edit.
We have friends staying from London which has created a little bit of chaos in the schedule. Really hard to get them out of bed and moving this morning so that I could capture something a little more engaging than 2 kids eating breakfast. Again. But I guess I have to be content with I can capture at the moment. I only have small window of opportunity before I have to leave for work. Perhaps it’s time to get some more pick ups of other objects to keep this interesting.
Also, tried shooting in B/W today. Mixed results.
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Once again no Canon (my fault this time - left it at the office). Could have used the trusty old Panasonic but more interested in what I can quickly capture with the iPhone at the moment. Obviously can’t get any depth of field and the white balance is all over the place so I think this might be the last day using it.
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Another day without the Canon - full day green screen shoot in the office - and not really anytime to capture footage of Noah. Made the most of the fact that we were actually capturing footage of Noah for a Telecom job we’re working on. Not a lot of quality footage here and it probably won’t be used in the final film.
This certainly is a challenge (especially when using an iPhone) but I’m enjoying it.
oh, and another happy accident I just noticed - at the end of the footage it looks like Noah is lip synching to the song!
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OK, back into the regular schedule again. Normal morning routine - brushing teeth. Before breakfast. Don’t worry - we’ll brush them again after breakfast as well.
Just noticed an accidental vignette appearing in the left corner. Not intentional but a nice effect. I’m finding that shooting with the Canon is getting “unexpected” results. Which I like. When you shoot with a Red or similar you get the expected clean, filmic look (don’t get me wrong, the Red is a beautiful camera) - but I’m getting lens distortion and exposure flashes that are making the process really interesting.
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Focused on capturing Noah out and about for the 1-2pm time period. Pretty chaotic shoot at the supermarket. Rendering out now and will upload in the morning.
OK, so I’m discovering (obviously) that the capturing bit is quite straight forward. The edit, render, compression and then upload is taking up to 3 hours. Need to stream-line this shit. And to be honest, I’m finding it difficult to be economical in the editing suite as I don’t want to throw any of the footage away. It’s my son for goodness sake and it all looks good to me! The edits are getting longer and apologies to anyone following this but until I figure out how to be little less subjective with my subject matter we’re stuck with it.
Note on the soundtrack: This sequence works with almost anything (Terry!) but especially with Been Caught Stealing by Janes Addiction. I thought it was a bit obvious though. I could post multiple soundtrack versions to demonstrate how a soundtrack seriously influences the visuals but it seems a little indulgent at this point in time.
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