Dale Campbell Films

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I apply the film grain for a couple of reasons. The way I see it if you look at older classic films and focus on the skin you can see the film grain has a big impact on the perceived skin tone and 'glamour' factor and along with careful use of Magic Bullet Cosmo can help reduce the appearance of blemishes etc... Think shots of [i][url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brigitte_Bardot"]Brigitte Bardot[/url] : ) [/i] shots Also I apply neat video as the first filter in the chain, when footage is de-noised you can introduce some problems with gradient banding. This isn't always obvious in your full resolution high bitrate master files but when compressed for streaming it can suddenly appear. So adding a film grain overlay helps to retain gradients and IMHO gives a more classic look to skin, especially in a imperfect shooting environment where going for very clean no grain footage can sometimes be tricky... not a huge fan of completely clean smooth plastic skin anyway : ) 5D2RGB batch works well for me, it renders the gamma range of the GH2 correctly and allows me to conform and convert in 1 go. Cinema Tools has been temperamental recently refusing to conform converted prores files. So I just do it all in 1 go. Hope that is useful : )

[quote name='galenb' timestamp='1350883904' post='20108'] Oh, I meant to ask you, do you ever use any kind of stabilizer like a flycam? I'm wondering how you get your handheld footage to look so jitter free? [/quote] Thanks! Glad you found it interesting. They always know the highlight reel will be set to music, most are glad that everything they say won't be in the final video. That said I do film the ceremony and speeches from multiple angles with external sound I don't use a Steadicam/flycam in any of those shots, handheld is either a shoulder mount or more recently a manfrotto 561bhdv monopod.

[quote name='Erico Penteado' timestamp='1350879591' post='20104'] Thanks for the feedback :) By the way, a GH2 here in Brazil with the standard 14-42mm lens costs about U$1.500,00. A FS100 with the 18-200mm lens costs U$8.000,00. The 5dMkIII (body only) U$4.500,00. All of them on a very good deal! And about the recording for many hours... these cams can hold it well without overheating and breaking up? Thanks :) [/quote] GH2 has always been fine, there is a glitch when recording very long files which can give an error message, I think if you record a long video, then stop and turn the camera off it sometimes brings an error out. Trick is to record a short (literally start stop) video straight after before turning off to avoid it. Only had this once on a non-commercial 'fun' shoot but if you don't know how to deal with it could throw a spanner in the works. Not sure if it is common to all hacks or not.... http://www.personal-view.com/ may be the best place to go for more detailed info. Can't speak for the 5DMK3 personally but I know a few people using these on weddings and they haven't had problems. FS100 I've never used but it is design as a moving image camera so I reckon if there are any issues a quick google would let you know about them.

[quote name='Axel' timestamp='1350847268' post='20090'] Well done. Hacked? Nostalgic or vibrant? Lot of post? What audio solution? What are your comments on the discussion above? [/quote] Hacked running Driftwood Sedna A, Smooth dialled down -2 on all settings. Audio I have a rode video mic pro that either goes direct to camera or more often into a Tascam DR-05, though I usually run a Zoom H2 as a backup. Transcode to prores with 5DtoRGB Batch and conform any 50fps footage to 24fps. Edit in FCP7, denoise with neat video, colour correct, grade with magic bullet looks, apply a film grain over-lay then compress and to vimeo. Pretty much summed up what I thought but to put it another way - Yes it can be done, with the right lenses and a good hack you can get very good footage. Be aware of increase file sizes with hacks - have enough SD cards! And thoroughly research any quirks of the hack you intend to use + shoot many tests. FS100 is great, but much bigger and more expensive and unless the OP is thinking of dropping a fair wedge on it a GH2 may be a more economical solution....

It's what I use at the moment. Mostly with a Voigtlander 25mm f0.95 & Samyang 85mm f1.4 for the night shots. A lot of my night/dancing shots are 50fps conformed to 24fps so that means I lose a bit on a high shutter speed as well. But honestly it doesn't matter with fast lenses you can get stunning shots. For reference this is my wedding showreel with which cameras I used for each shot - [url="https://vimeo.com/50939906"]https://vimeo.com/50939906[/url] Password is - which Night shots from about 2-15

@andyLee This is true and you have to make sure all any extra harddrives are formatted and empty before you get there. That said I aim to do this anyway, and I also avoid deleting anything on the day and just carry plenty of SD cards. Always risky deleting things in that kind of one take environment :o You do need a computer to format, but I also take a MBP with me to start backing up when I take my break...

@galenb Thanks! Nope mostly just the standard conform to 24p. The shot at 26 seconds had a tiny bit of extra slow down mostly for music timing purposes. The last shot looks really slowed down as he hits the card with his elbow because by doing that he takes most of the spin off :) Was very happy with that as it makes it seem like a 240fps style shot! We're going to hire an FS700 soon to do some really slow stuff with lots of the more complicated tricks :o

Personally I'm very tempted by the 4/3rds model for my work, which includes weddings. People talk about the massive amount of extra kit you'll need to shoot but everyone said that about DSLRs etc. It is mostly old video cam thinking imho. Sure to shoot in a certain way you need a shoulder rig, but that doesn't have to cost a fortune. I shoot a lot with a monopod, slider, and micro jib using a GH2 minimal 'rig' involved - a QR plate system so I can swap between each support quickly. As for the SSD you can pick up 256gb SSDs cheaper than the equivalent in SD cards... admittedly people will be using more space than they are accustomed to in Prores422HQ mode, but that is the price you pay for a solid codec that can be easily imported. Batteries are easy enough there are plenty of solutions out there and they won't add much to the bulk of the camera. The camera several threaded mounts so you can stick a top handle, mic, battery adapter on fairly easily. If its your first cam maybe try a GH2 to get used to shooting manual focus if you haven't done it before....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f50dTjpH6QM This is a short promo video I shot for my brother (he is a magician). My GH2 is running Sedna A, everything was shot in the 720p mode at 50fps to allow us to conform to 24fps for slowmo. Lenses were either Voigtlander 25mm f0.95 or a Tokina 11-16 f2.8. Colour profile was smooth all dialled down. Dolly shots done with a Kessler PB Dolly + Electra drive. His website is [url="http://www.darrencampbellmagic.co.uk/"]http://www.darrencampbellmagic.co.uk[/url] if anyone is interested : )