Steve Crow
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Could have added a soft look filter to the lens or they may be adding a tiny bit of blur during editing or it might be due to the special fog they often pump onto sets (cracked oil I believe it is) to achieve a softer look and to highlight light shafts. Also they have have shallow depth of field due to an open aperture on the camera lens – probably several things going on.
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John brings up a great point, but I hope nothing I’ve said was interpreted to throw cold water on your enthusiasm for the project, that would be a shame. I happen to live in an agricultural area too and I was just thinking about this yesterday, how I might like to show the sun rising over the fields in timelapse, the farm owner getting out of bed, close ups of dew on the ready to be picked produce, film workers in the field, maybe show a worker holding up freshly picked produce up to the sun, close ups of workers faces, early morning shots of the fields, the workers arriving, a farm tractor starting up, an interview with a local produce buyer talking about the quality of the farmer’s goods which could serve as a voice under for some of the visuals I am describing, the farm owner standing in the field, then talking about why they farm, what producing high quality foods means to them and to their family…could be a lot of fun. Lots of shallow depth of field and slider shots, cool! Unfortunately, I can’t just walk into a field a start filming without getting into big trouble but you have the chance now to do it for me, ha ha!! 🙂
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John brings up a great point, but I hope nothing I’ve said was interpreted to throw cold water on your enthusiasm for the project, that would be a shame. I happen to live in an agricultural area too and I was just thinking about this yesterday, how I might like to show the sun rising over the fields in timelapse, close ups of dew on the ready to be picked produce, film workers in the field, maybe show a worker holding up freshly picked produced up to the sun, close ups of workers faces, early morning shots of the fields, the workers arriving, a farm tractor starting up, an interview with a local producer buyer talking about the quality of the farmer’s goods which could serve as a voice under for some of the visuals I am describing, the farm owner standing in the field, then talking about why they farm, what producing high quality foods means to them and to their family…could be a lot of fun. Lots of shallow depth of field and slider shots, cool! Unfortunately, I can’t just walk into a field a start filming without getting into big trouble but you have the chance now to do it for me, ha ha!! 🙂
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I found this 5 part series online all about Wes’s style, yes Google is my friend! 🙂
https://www.movingimagesource.us/articles/the-substance-of-style-20120517
I am concerned however that your client has his or her own idea of what it means and is unable to explain. This type of client typically only knows what they don’t want (which they can explain to you in detail) but can’t find the words to express the words for what they DO want. It can be quite frustrating. To be honest, I’ve never had a client talk about any particular famous director’s style or ask me to emulate it…if they did I would probably say to them that they should refer to MY earlier work to see what kind of “style” they can expect and while I can certainly try to capture SOME elements of a Hollywood’s director signature style – realistically I don’t have the tools or budget to match it shot for shot. Heck most of the time of the time I don’t even have a crew except for myself. I just hope this client doesn’t turn out to be a big pain for you, if so, remember it is perfectly okay to “fire your client” and move on with your life minus the headache.
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Two thoughts come to mind…there are “de-noiser” type applications around but I’ve never used any…might be worth checking out however. The other idea I had is to chromakey out all the black and replace it with…black. Well a third “sort of” idea would be to use a 3 way color correction filter to crush the blacks – in theory I would think that would get rid of noise too.
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I think the Canon 7D would be a terrific option, the same video capabilities as the Canon 5D MII at a much lower price and a very very capable camera for stills too. It’s what I would buy.
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I suspect the difference between HQ and SQ has to do with the data rate and maybe also the audio data rate too
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Take a look at Premiere Elements 10 https://www.adobe.com/products/premiere-elements.html
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In terms of audio with the T2i – it’s more than having a wireless lav – you also need an external digital recorder to capture the wireless audio signal. The T2i camera body has no headphone jack so you can’t monitor the sound and there is also the Automatic Gain Control issue which drives some people nuts – so the T2i is definitely going to great for all your beauty and interview shots in terms of the visuals – sound does really need either the external digital audio recorder or you could also use a BeachTek or JuiceLink pre-amp that had the headphone jack for audio monitoring and which can defeat the AGC problem too. Oh, also you should have a second mic attached to the hot shoe of the T2i and feed that signal into the T2i’s mic input jack – this will give you much improved audio recorded with your video clip that you can use to sync to your wirelesses lav audio.
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I must admit I only watched the introduction but what I would suggest is doing another version of this tutorial using LED or even fluorescent lighting instead of the halogen-based worklights which get very hot and are very hard to control where the light goes since they just kind of blast the light out. As I said, I didn’t watch the entire video so I don’t know if you covered any kind of barn door type arrangement where you could more easily direct the light.
Your presentation style and videography were quite good so congrats on that. Also the dog was very cute too!!!
Steve Crow
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