[Marcus Perfjell]

Yes I hope this thread will help somebody more than me, you gave me alot of tips Mark!
Talked to my friend today and he and the owner really liked what I shot the other day so I’m just doing the “this is what you get” kind of video..

Thanks for everything!

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Thanks for your tips! I talked to my friend at the night club, and he and the owner basically just wants some cool shots of the night club sort of “this is what you get”. no story, too complicated.

I test filmed yesterday with the EX1 and I got really disapointed over the results, I think i need a LED-lamp to even see peoples faces. I’m uploading the movie right now and will post it here when it’s done.

Thanks for your post!

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Mark: I’m having a meeting with my friend in a couple of hours, I have a whole list of things I want to talk to him about. I wrote down a “Boy meets girl” story and I really like it, but it’s quite complex I’ll write it down later.

Somebody posted this link https://www.vimeo.com/8397060 in this thread and I think he wants something like that, I have to say that that short clip represents a feeling of the club, don’t you?

“Then he really has no idea yet what he wants.”
I’ve written down the things you mentioned about “Five questions” and if he wants the movie to be fact or feeling. Let’s see what he has to say about that.

Sorry for being so short!
I’ll get back to you when I’ve talked to my friend, once again, thanks for your professional help.

Marcus

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Thank you sooo much for your answer Mark! I highly appreciate it!

I will talk to my friend about the questions you mentioned, just so you know, he basically asked me: “Can you do a commercial?”. and I said, “I’ll look in to it”.
We haven’t spoken since then, I will however contact him tomorrow and thanks to you, I have alot more to work with!

I liked your story tip, very much! I’ll talk to him tomorrow and we will try to agree over something, I think however that the soap opera idea is too “serious”, I think he needs something around 30 seconds, maybe 40, but those 40 seconds needs to be good.

I think what he wants is not continuity, no scenes, even though I would enjoy shooting it, I think he wants it to be more simple. Ofcourse I’m shooting bartenders when they poor drinks from different angles in continuity but not more than that.

I will go there on a regular night, test shoot and see how it looks, then go there when they have events, like playboy and try to get the real shots done.

The story I mentioned about having three or four different “couples”, I was thinking maybe shooting them for about 5 seconds, and then showing their faces at the nightclub later in the movie, what do you think of that for a simple idea? Maybe you could help me with tips on that?

Don’t know if I answered all your questions, but I have very little time since I’m at a internet cafe and they kinda close now, but thank you so much for your post! I will try to post tomorrow after talking to my friend!

Best
Marcus

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I think your tip about the Lantern is a very good advice! The soft light that you get out of that lamp is probably perfect!

Do you think I should use a red (original) one, or a white? red gives a warmer picture, and can probably enhance the feeling of the nightclub.

I don’t know what a 500W photo flood is, could you please post a link? I searched google, but got alot of different matches.

thanks for your answer!

Marcus

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I don’t have any of the canon cameras only the PMW. Hard to rent one when up in the mountains:P

Liked your link though

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Thank you so much for your quick respond!

Basically my friend just told me “do you think you can do a commercial for the night club”, and I said, I’ll look in to it. So the budget is probably none, other than my payment, I could probably tell him what I need, and see if it’s possible to get, but i doubt it.

The steadi cam, I was thinking of using my tripod as one, it’s free and works ok for a short amount of time. What do you think?

thanks for the tip with the window of the nightclub, I have a polarizing filter, but with it on, I can’t use my “sun blocking matte box that came with the camera” (sorry for not knowing the name, and my english), the Polarizing filter is too big, and even with the “matte box” on I cant’ twist the filter..

I will try shooting in the snow tomorrow without the matte box but with the filter, and see how it turns out, I’ll let you know.

Do you know any in camera settings to make the PMW-EX1 more light sensitive?

I’ll think about what you said about cross-posting!
thanks again!
Marcus

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haha I’m such an idiot, meant the sony. probably tired

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Thank you for that valuable information, now when you mentioned I remember that you can change the filenames, will never use the same ones twice!

I’ve got to buy the DVD about the EX1.
I’m reading the user manual for clip browser now, thank you very much for all your help Craig.
You have learned me alot this afternoon:P

In the future I will be using Clip Browser instead of “just copying the files”
Marcus

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by the way, when I later on log them in FCP, I just give my coworkers the Projectfile, and the files (BPAV folders) and they will have the logged clips there, is that what you’re suggesting?
Marcus

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