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Video Equipment

www.mattkprovideo.com/2020/05/27/video-equipment/

Video equipment that I own:

Sony FX 3 camera with an E4.5 -6.3/70-350 G OSS FE24mm lens.

DJI Mavic 3 Cine drone.

Canon T3I with an added 18 to 55 lens. Shoots 24 frames per second ( HD/2K)  and slo motion. Shoots up to 20 minutes.

Canon G20 camera ( camcorder) that shoots HD/2K for up to 4 hours.

Multiple fluid head Tripods.

Camera slider for slider shots.

Sony 4K Video Recording FDRAX33 Handycam Camcorder. Shoots 4K, 2K at 30 frames per second or 24 FPS.

https://www.sony.com/electronics/handycam-camcorders/fdr-ax33

1 4K Go Pro.

1 2K Go Pro and a Go Pro Gimbal.

Various Go Pro Mounts and straps.

iPhone Gimbal (for smooth, steady “flying” shots)

iPhone that shoots in 4K, 2K and slow motion (excellent in low light!) I know it seems amateurish to hire a so called “professional videographer” and then they shoot with a cell phone. But cell phone footage if shot and edited properly, can look amazing.

iPhone “Selfie Stick.”

DJI iPhone Gimbal.

Basic small field Lights.

Lazy Susan carousel for shooting objects.

2 Lavalier microphones.

I RODE mike.

1 small camera hand-cam stabilizer.

1 PC LapTop with full creative suite ( Adobe Premiere, Adobe After Effects, Adobe Animate/Flash, Adobe Photoshop, and Cinema 4D lite).

1 traditional paper animation light box.

I have the full Adobe Creative Suite and am excellent at using Adobe Premiere, Adobe After Effects ( I have a college degree in motion graphics) and Adobe Photoshop. I also have basic proficiency at Adobe Animate and some basic 3D animation.

“Grassy No” Background Tests

Made in Adobe Animate

Which one of these backgrounds looks best?

It was supposed to be simply white on black, then I tried it white on white, then white on white with a black drop shadow, then a gray background, then a light blue covered back ground.

I could try any color as a back ground.

Which do you prefer?

Walking Dead Season 10 episode 9 thoughts.

https://mattkprovideo.com/2020/05/09/walking-dead-season-10-episode-9-thoughts/

Walking Dead Season 10 episode 9 thoughts.

I haven’t been able to watch any of this season.  I used to watch The Walking Dead in a bar,  well Covid 19 put a stop to THAT.

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The whisperers have a huge herd of walkers they can lead against their enemies.

We see that they camp out on the surface. We also see that they live next to a huge underground cave, where they are hiding their herd from their enemies.

Why wouldn’t they live in that rain proof, walker proof cave themselves? They would be protected from the elements and hidden from any walkers or human enemies.

 

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Ok some questions about Episode 13..

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I watched it on a bad download so I had a hard time following some of it

Michonne went to an Island / ( a peninsula Naval base) because the new guy Virgil told her the naval base he lived at had powerful weapons.

Once there she leans that virgils family was in the grave… but.. they weren’t?

Virgil gets Michonne to use her sword to clear out a building of walkers.  The dialogue was so muffled I couldn’t understand most of it.

Virgil SAYS those walkers are in there because ______???? But we later learn that Virgil really drew a bunch of people in there…____why????

While in her prison cell the prisoners next door tell her they all used to work and then Virgil kidnapped them. But the dialogue was so muffled I couldn’t hear everything. What all did they say to Michonne?

Was that place really a Naval Base or was it a disease research lab???

What happened to make Virgil so nuts?

Virgil gave Michonne some kind of hallucinogen in her tea that made her imagine a life where she DIDNT save Andrea and joined up with Negan and the saviors…. I guess for her to examine a life where where she wasn’t so merciful… mercy she shows to Virgil at the end.

I was baffled that Judith would tell her mother NOT to come home. Thats to drive the plot forward, but it doesn’t make sense character wise.

Beta sees a note with “2 eyes see 1 truth”  on a table. Is this a callback to a previous episode? I vaguely remember Glenn and some girl leaving a note on a table…. or am I having “the Mandela effect” with my memory…

Substitute Wife 1994

Farrah Fawcett The Substitute Wife 1994 Full Movie

https://mattkprovideo.com/2020/05/07/substitute-wife-1994/

I worked on this TV movie in Austin, Texas in 1994.  I was a low end intern, but I was a paid intern and at the time I was very glad to have the job.

I watched this once on TV when it first aired.  I couldn’t really watch it the way anyone else could.  Having worked on it I can’t seperate my memories of making the scenes versus just watching the story. I know myself and my fellow crewmates were just off to the side of the camera