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Think NLE or Camera maters? Watch this
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[Gary Huff] “I get the strong feeling it wasn’t intended to be B&W from the get go, either. That feels like an auto white balance issue wreaking havoc.”
That’s quite obviously the case, yes.
Simon Ubsdell
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[Gary Huff] “Though, granted, 7D footage wasn’t terrible better and we lived through that.”
I’ve directed a few car commercials and the budgets of those would have paid for the odd Bentley.
Are we saying those days are over?
Simon Ubsdell
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Lot’s of anger for what? Of course not all car commercials will be shot like this, but this one was and if you’ve really directed high-end car commercials you’d not be reacting this way. No go warm up some Sake and chill.
Lance Bachelder
Writer, Editor, Director
Downtown Long Beach, California
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British humor is one of my absolute favorite things in the world – sensed none of it from your posts. Just weird over-reaction to a really nice spot, regardless of what it was shot on…
Lance Bachelder
Writer, Editor, Director
Downtown Long Beach, California
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The point i was making was with all the arguments about cameras and NLE’s…you can makeu a film, commercial, industrial on virtually anything if you are a good story teller..
.like the story or not, they told the what they wanted to tell with rudimentary tools….the viewer doesn’t care if it’s FCPX or Premiere or AVID or Red or an ARRI or iphone…story telling, composition lighting and pacing is really all that matters….and you can accomplish that today with an astonishing array of tools.
Andy Field
FieldVision Productions
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[Andy Field] “The point i was making was with all the arguments about cameras and NLE’s…you can make an film, commercial, industrial on virtually anything if you are a good story teller..
.like the story or not, they told the what they wanted to tell with rudimentary tools….the viewer doesn’t care if it’s FCPX or Premiere or AVID or Red or an ARRI or iphone…story telling, composition lighting and pacing is really all that matters….and you can accomplish that today with an astonishing array of tools.”
And in this case, the “story-telling” (please can we outlaw this expression in cases like this?) was as poor as the technical execution.
Simon Ubsdell
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again…for everyone who can’t miss a chance to criticize or argue…..the point is…the endless arguing of FCPX vs everything else is pointless….find a tool you like and use it.
Andy Field
FieldVision Productions
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[Andy Field] “again…for everyone who can’t miss a chance to criticize or argue…..the point is…the endless arguing of FCPX vs everything else is pointless….find a tool you like and use it.”
Couldn’t agree more.
The only thing I would add is “use it well”.
Which is clearly not the case in the example under question.
Simon Ubsdell
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[Andy Field] “and you can accomplish that today with an astonishing array of tools.”
You can, though that ship has been sailing for a long time now and eventually video production tools will be as common as pencil and paper. With that being said, the tools still matter.
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I thought the point was to achieve a specific look.
And it apparently takes a lot of rigging.
Now somebody like Bill Maher might observe that it takes a lot of resources to provide the 0.1% with a fast, cushy laptop holder so they can make more pie charts. While the Antarctic ice sheet slides off its ice cream cone.Everybody thinks they just invented sex.
This tedious argument even predates the flap around “Blair Witch”, whereupon it was proclaimed that Hollywood movies would be shot on HandyCams thence.
How is that going?
jPo
“I always pass on free advice — its never of any use to me” Oscar Wilde.
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