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Julians shots already were enough to convince me that you can get great cinematic look out of GH4. There was a time when nofilmschool had some useful comment threads as well, but that time is long gone. Ignore and move along :) To me that video speaks of itself. They clearly mention that it was all done in 2 days. Which probably means they were too ambitious about their idea and the filming - which made them end up rushing the post work to be able to finish. Been there, done that - and learnt that you need to plan which shortcuts to take if you want to produce something good in a short amount of time. Had I had two days to pull something off with any camera, I'd try a much simpler story with fewer shots so I could focus on getting the shots right and having a much simpler process for editing and coloring.

I would love to share with you my first Raw video with the 5d Miii / Its an experimental teaser that i have made for a party Exept 2 or 3 shots all was shot in RAW aspecially all the Slow motion shots. Some of the slowmotion shots were twixtored in post. Hope you enjoy it and share

where did you remember this movie "the room"? you know they hold screenings in cinemas to go see this epic cult, probably one of the worst movies ever made... as for the gh4 footage, everyone can have a pencil not everyone can write a book.

  This was shot on film...     Therefore I have decided film is incapable of producing a filmic image!   The first comment on nofilmschool kind of sums it up   If I was the CEO of Panasonic, I would buy this film and immediately take it down. Then tell these “filmmakers” to stop using the GH4.   Give a hack a camera, and a hack of a film comes out...

Most people doing video work (that looks like film to them :) ) usually only have one lens beside the stock one, the cheaper 50mm from Canon, that's a safe lens, you can get easily good pictures without much work involved. With wider lens you have to be more careful, there's much more going on in the image, many people don't get it right easily, i think that this short is one good example, it was made in a hurry also. The light is mostly bad, the color grading… at some times looks like it came from a Canon DSLR, too much red tint, again made in a hurry maybe with bad reference monitors and maybe by inexperienced grader. The "actors" and editing… it's that kind of things that can work within a group of friends but you should't show it to everyone else. :) It's not the camera, it's how and what you do with it. Not so long ago we were putting lens adapters in front of our DVX100, HVX200, PD150 so it could have the "film look", without it it was a video camera that made videoish images. The film that Gareth Edwards made before the new "Godzilla" was shot with a Sony EX3 with a lens adapter http://nakedfilmmaking.com/2010/10/05/naked-monster-the-future-of-film/ I respect Nick Driftwood a lot but i think he got carried away with this hype around GH4 and with everyone trying to show new footage. My order is still awaiting for stock in Europe, i won't cancel it because of this.

All in the hands of the user. It can look pretty great if used properly. I'm not sure why that short in the OP came out the way it did. Perhaps Nick was playing a big prank on all of us? I didn't care for the image either, but I know Nick is capable of better.

Not this again :rolleyes: If sharp images = videoish, then does that make the things shot with the soft old SD cameras filmic?

I feel I have the knowledge and temperament, though I'm not always around work depending, but I'd be happy to assist :)