mattkprovideo.com/2018/11/08/music-video-in-a-white-room/
A music video shot in the ubiquitous “White Room” at Alamo City Studios in San Antonio, Texas.
The song is “Beautiful” by Malibu Cannibals.
https://www.facebook.com/malibucannibals/
https://mattkprovideo.com/2018/10/23/cool-laika-commercial/
This youtube commercial played before a video I wanted to see.
Normally, this annoys me.
But the “behind the scenes” footage of the making of the stop motion movie CORALINE was fascinating to me.
I did a youtube search on some of the words used in this video until I found the Laika / 3D printer commercial.
The did SOME sculpting, but most of the replacement faces were done with a 3D printer.
I love seeing the odd but brilliant ways they made the stop motion animation.
Mixing old tech hand moved stop animation and modern film technology.
mattkprovideo.com/2018/08/27/defense-of-24-fps-cinema/
John Hess shares his thoughts on 24 frames per second for film making and video production.
mattkprovideo.com/2018/08/13/rare-old-hd-special-effects-and-action-scenes/
At 1.28 that looks pretty real. I am assuming / hoping its a camera on dolly track and someone tugs it on a robe at the last second. I think the footage is speeded up.
2.40 I think thats Hitchcock’s STRANGERS ON A TRAIN
Strangers on a Train (film)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strangers_on_a_Train_(film)
I 3.22 we see the words “dan marruffo ”
I googled “dan marruffo race car movie”
and found :
The Dan Marruffo footage is 2 minutes in…. I suppose thats documentary / newsreel footage of a real race.
I’ll keep searching and keep you posted.
mattkprovideo.com/2018/08/08/5326/
I just saw the new Winnie the Pooh movie. Oops I mean “Christopher Robin”.
When I first saw the Trailer
I thought it was the Disney Corp trying to cash in on the critically acclaimed:
Goodbye Christopher Robin (2017)
And now that I’ve seen it…. I still kind of think that.
I enjoyed parts of it. Its technically amazing. HOW did they make those animals move? Puppetry? Advanced CGI? Or… most likely… a combination of all of them?
The characters were a clever hybrid of the original storyboard drawings and Disney cartoon models.
The real Christopher Robin:
Ewan McGregors a great actor, but this guy looks more the part:
The story is a bit remiscent of Spielbergs HOOK . The work a holic dad who cant find time to be with his family.
It also reminded me a bit of DREAM CHILD, TED, and the Harry Potters…
WHO was this movie for? Small children? Jaded Adults?
And THIS “Christopher Robin” has almost NO connection to what I know of the real one ( and I’m not even that much a Pooh buff).
If they can use the “magic tree” to teleport from London to the hundred Acre wood, why couldn’t they use it to transport back?
It has marvellous moments, but the ending was bit too much “Disney Ex Machina”
https://mattkprovideo.com/2018/07/30/bail-organas-death-star/
According to ROGUE ONE, Bail Organa was on Yavin 4 when his home Planet ( Alderaan) was blown up by the Death Star. And R2D2 has ( had) a copy of the Death Star plans in his memory. So maybe a really elderly Bail Organa could be alive in a sequel and he could build himself some kind of Rebel Death Star? Yes, he said he was going home, but maybe he didn’t make in in time.
Spielberg and Dick Cavett discuss Jaws & Raiders
Spielberg couldn’t say “Midget” today.
In fact on the JAWS DVD he always says “little person.”
This talk show is slow and tame by todays standards. In the “post Arsenio” era they’d be encouraging rowdiness from the crowd.
Today the shark would of course be CGI. But why not “muppeteers” under a rubber shark?
https://mattkprovideo.com/2017/12/14/blackmagic-color-grade/
For a recent wedding shoot I had a freelancer use a Black Magic camera. I have heard very good things about that camera, how the footage looks just like 35mm motion picture film! I was very excited. And I was a bit nervous how that footage would mix in when edited in with footage with my other cameras.
https://www.blackmagicdesign.com
It was so much smaller than I thought it would be.
What I saw in the viewfinder screen concerned me, everything was a dull desaturated greenish grey. The camera operator told me to relax, that all blackmagic footage looks like that until color graded in Davinci Resolve.
Well I don’t have Davinci Resolve. I ran the footage through Adobe After Effects and added an adjustment layer with AUTO COLOR and a lot of vibrancy came back into the image.
Then I added “Brightness and Contrast”. Lowering the Brightness and increasing the Contrast helped even more.
It still didn’t look right.
I added a third adjust layer and used HUE AND SATURATION and increased the saturation of the reds and blues and it started to look like the other cameras.
I set it to render then read THIS article:
http://www.creativebloq.com/audiovisual/master-colour-correction-and-grading-after-effects-10134701
It says I should have used Effects>Synthetic Aperture.
Hmm I will have to try that on the next shots. So far I am not that impressed. It seems just like my video footage, not this marvelous film look I was expecting. Then again it is most likely the problem is my limited experience with color grading footage from the BlackMagic, and not the camera itself.
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