The way I see it is this is a man working hard and paying his taxes, but it isn't without reward. He is making "money" and lots of it. So much so that he lets it spill over, not caring if the currency makes it into the savings account or just falls over the edge. He has so much he doesn't know what to do with it, yet he still shows up and works for more. Then he sees someone in need again and decides to help out, because why not? This 'person' shows him how little this greed and monotonous lifestyle matters. She shows him nature, the world, color - a life without grind and corporate servitude. Once he sees that, he can't return. He's forever vanished into that world and is probably happy and wishing he never was away from it.
@@ryushev2000 U wanna own this thing ? Yes it's 50K buttons so good luck in the desert. Think Luke is telling another way of thinking is more rewarding : the smart leftist mystified mystic that makes u a colorful Rockefeller at the Kremlin.
If people only knew what it took to do what you do. I know you do music along with film. You didn't just make a beautiful thing or a strong narrative or a complex abstraction--you also scored it WONDERFULLY. Composer to composer, well done. Great great work.
This incredible. Love the production value, visuals, the score, the camera, and most importantly the subliminal story! Thanks for sharing this and please keep making movies.
Loved it! It's always inspiring to find someone making Original content. And it's amazing that you can pull of doing the audio and visuals so well. Thanks for always inspiring me to create more, create better, and keep shooting.
just got new internet last month and it is supposed to be top of the line, and I am really pleased to say that my internet can handle 8k video very smoothly and it did not even stop to buffer!!
Loved everything about this film (composition, movement, colors, audio...everything!) However, I do agree that the first drone shot does not fit. Easy to fix (edit it out). Who are we to say though, this was completely amazing (would be even more amazing without that first drone shot though :-).
Skin tones should look fine on the interiors but I really went for a different look than normal on the exteriors. Wanted to put some thought into the grading and how it works with the underlying "story".
I kinda do too. They have always reminded me of Pixar shorts which (IMO) are some of the best storytelling in modern cinema. At least the old Pixar movies and shorts.
Probably not the meaning of the film but what I got from it is actually how meaningless life can be. Like we can be working our asses off all day, then sleep then repeat. And what are we really working our asses off for? Just paper, like this guy is working his ass off for buttons, something worthless but we gave it value. The suit to me represents that even if your life is shit you better make it look like its good, you better look presentable. Again, probably not the meaning (because my explanation has nothing to do with unity/Henosis) but I like how films like these make you think and give every viewer a different experience and different meaning. Cool.
this video is insane, only good filmmakers will appreciate this kind of work, 2:54 should be the Poster for this film. what I admire about this video and what makes it different is everything you see in front of you mainly was made by one guy. Thank you again Luke really in love with this channel content and its been like this since the beginning always good.
I think this video was politically symbolic. it tells the story from both sides. it shows the guy working his ass off just to give it all back, while keeping little for himself. It's the American "dream" while the air quality is intolerable and industry has faded.
Wow! Congratulations, this is your top work at the moment, in my opinion! You have created a perfect atmosphere, stunning visuals, sounds... It's like a Tarsem Singh piece, I love it! I imagine however that the greatness of the work does not come from the sensor resolution and I am sure you could have done it with a 4K camera :)
Absolutely love this piece. Well my interpretation of it at least. In a nutshell I think the working man (average American), who is a slave to the cooperation busts his ass for the corporation which is raping the country, hence the desolate, destitute land. He works and works and gives his all to the corporation which gives him barely anything back in return while the nation suffers and is dying. Then one day he starts giving back to the nation instead...first a little...he sees some change....then alot, he see's alot of change. The nation is nourished and then blossoms (gorgeous shot in the green forest) ...and he is finally free (end shot with his gas mask on the ground and freedom in the background) Technical wise I think those sigma art lenses are way 2 sharp on the 8k sensor....the kowa shots looks much better to me. Those sigmas need some serious diffusion. Anyway great piece...Great work. Luke and Marika!
Totally agreed, I added post filters like crazy and it's still too sharp. I so wanted to use the Kowas for everything but we only had them for a limited time.
i want to believe that the meaning is that the guy was transported to the forest and life when gently he gave his money to a poor women, who actually was kind of a god? i dont know... but the quality is just AWESOME!!!! sorry the mistakes, inglish is not my first language
GH5 - woot! Congrats on the Panasonic gig! Look forward to hearing your thoughts on whether bitrate is enough and whether sensor improves low-light and DR performance on GH4.
image looks amazing. liked the story as well..... the music very powerful - tried to watch it on 8k on my 4k monitor... just didnt hold up.... 4k is stunning... just curious what size was the final file on output for 8k for the 3:31 minutes.... thanks
It's not an option in the main menu, you need to go to Advanced (on the left of the normal resolutions) and then choose 8K 6:5 and a 2x Anamorphic Lookaround.
Thanks! We are going to be doing an interview with NoFilmSchool about it and we might share our own thoughts about it there. Your own interpretation is the correct one though, ours is our own for certain reasons that not everyone might share etc.
Beautiful production values, as always. The metaphors in this confused me. Perhaps I'm being too literal but, if the items (buttons, etc.) are valuable, as they seem to be, then why let them bounce off the desk or miss going into the bottle? (I guess it needed to be a bit more buttoned down. :)
Nice video. I think the higher resolutions you go the more diminishing returns. At normal viewing distance on my 30" 4K monitor, I don't see a really discernible difference between 4K and 8K (ever so slightly sharper and more details maybe). On my 1080p monitor, I see a big difference between 1080p and 1440p / 4K though (with 8K looking basically the same as 4K but not at smooth with slower playback).
Did you upload this as a hdr video? Also what are your thoughts on youtube's recent announcement of hdr video support. Does this mean that there will be a huge improvement over youtube compression artifacts since its 10 bit video?
wow this is technically one of the most gorgeous things i've ever seen or heard. parts kinda remind me of "the fall". Only thing I didn't really understand was that if the buttons represented some precious resource like time/money, why was "the Man" so careless with dumping them all over the table with half of them falling off, and why was the protagonist so careless dumping them in the bottle, with half of them missing the mouth and falling on the ground? I'm all for cool visuals, but it kinda takes me out of it when things like that don't seem to add up. Like I think it would have felt more powerful for him to consider the buttons bore sacred and agonize over getting every last one into the bottle. I could be misunderstanding, though.
Both scenes were narrative choices, that's all I will say :) I don't want to give you my meaning because that would take away yours. There was a reason behind it though...
Great job - I kind of got the context without first reading your thoughts - my take was more along the lines of the middle classes continuing to slave away for some mythical ideal while everything around them decays - both physically and spiritually... anyway - that was my take and I thought the execution was superb!
henosis Term Image (ενωσις) (Language: Greek) Short Description: unity Long Description: unity; unity is the characteristic that everything has in common; anything depends on unity and only unity is the goal of all things; in Neoplatonism, the soul’s purification, accomplished primarily through philosophy, culminates in noetic vision and finally in mystical union (Plot. Enn.VI.7.36); the divine truth is an indivisible henosis of real beings. Source(s): The Golden Chain: An Anthology of Platonic and Pythagorean Philosophy, by Dr. Algis Uždavinys
TERRAMOUNT Power. You need to use the Jetpack back because the new RED cameras don't have DC in on the brain (don't get me started). Then the official DJI lemo to D tap cable is at a right angle and the head of the cable hits the gimbal and won't go in properly, so you need to open up the Jetpack and turn the DC in port 90 degrees.
It's possible, it just took me a while to figure it out. Messing up, buying something else, waiting for it to ship, finding out that doesn't work either, waiting for shipping again. Rinse and repeat :) It works now though.
well... theres the apocalypse.. a crazy murderous poor lady who symbolizes USA.. who acts kind and kills a man for its own profit.... and this videos is released in the time of Donald Trumps victory...you stitch it together...
what? I took it as the scenes show him moving to the left side of the screen when he was going to the man at the desk and the woman and home were on his right. His dreams were realized when he let go of his grind of working for the man at the desk and was generous to the mysterious begger. Not sure how you got Trump out of this.
The way I see it is this is a man working hard and paying his taxes, but it isn't without reward. He is making "money" and lots of it. So much so that he lets it spill over, not caring if the currency makes it into the savings account or just falls over the edge. He has so much he doesn't know what to do with it, yet he still shows up and works for more. Then he sees someone in need again and decides to help out, because why not? This 'person' shows him how little this greed and monotonous lifestyle matters. She shows him nature, the world, color - a life without grind and corporate servitude. Once he sees that, he can't return. He's forever vanished into that world and is probably happy and wishing he never was away from it.
I agree with aspect of your opinion, but I think it's something else
I'd agree but the Red Helium camera costs 50k
@@ryushev2000 U wanna own this thing ? Yes it's 50K buttons so good luck in the desert. Think Luke is telling another way of thinking is more rewarding : the smart leftist mystified mystic that makes u a colorful Rockefeller at the Kremlin.
I reinvest a lot of money on my business, so I don't have to pay so much taxes
The music adds a ton, gave me chills!
If people only knew what it took to do what you do. I know you do music along with film. You didn't just make a beautiful thing or a strong narrative or a complex abstraction--you also scored it WONDERFULLY. Composer to composer, well done. Great great work.
Jake Sidwell Really appreciate that. Thank you.
Wow!!! Amazing! Every scene captured is pure Art. You sir always surprise me with unique content...
Thanks!
This incredible. Love the production value, visuals, the score, the camera, and most importantly the subliminal story! Thanks for sharing this and please keep making movies.
Thank you :)
Whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaat??? I didn't know YT streamed in 8k. Mind blown. Watching on 4k screen and it looks great. Awesome cinematography guys!
This cinematography is AMAZING!
Thank god I'm able to play this in 8K, BEAUTIFUL.
It's not lagging, eh? :)
Love the fact that I can watch this in 4k with no buffering
And I love the fact that I can watch this in 8K with no buffering
This video can be taken with a slightly different interpretation now during the COVID-19 pandemic than it did before. But it is still just as amazing.
Loved it! It's always inspiring to find someone making Original content. And it's amazing that you can pull of doing the audio and visuals so well. Thanks for always inspiring me to create more, create better, and keep shooting.
roses are red
violets are blue
8K is beautiful
*and so are you*
Breathtaking cinematic shots! Absolutely love your imagery, Luke. Incredible job!
OMG GUYS THIS IS INCREDIBLE!! Is there a huge color sharpness diffrence from the original epic m?
Thanks! Yeah, I would say the image is quite a bit better out of this in every way.
Really great, enjoyed it. That wide anamorphic desert walking scene was amazing.
BTW, the film was nothing short of amazing. you guys rock!
Thank you sir :)
just got new internet last month and it is supposed to be top of the line, and I am really pleased to say that my internet can handle 8k video very smoothly and it did not even stop to buffer!!
bragging about internet speed is frowned upon!!
Very impressive. All around I liked it. The music was captivating. The shots were pretty well thought out. Pacing was good.
i dont know what the hell just happened but it was beautiful
Me to,, like dream..
Fuck! Same here 😂
That one was brilliant and amazing in same time and the quality was top of the line, thanks for this!
Gorgeously composed film. Although the drone shot at 1:28 had no purpose and completely threw me out of the moment, overall great job.
Zach Blackburn Of course it did...production value :)
Loved everything about this film (composition, movement, colors, audio...everything!) However, I do agree that the first drone shot does not fit. Easy to fix (edit it out). Who are we to say though, this was completely amazing (would be even more amazing without that first drone shot though :-).
Good work Luke and Marika! There are some good skin tones, something very rare these days...
Skin tones should look fine on the interiors but I really went for a different look than normal on the exteriors. Wanted to put some thought into the grading and how it works with the underlying "story".
Powerfully thought provoking 💫
Fantastic! I love shorts without dialogue! Tell the story in the frame!
I kinda do too. They have always reminded me of Pixar shorts which (IMO) are some of the best storytelling in modern cinema. At least the old Pixar movies and shorts.
i liked everything except the music and the first aerial shot, but that's me,
thank you for sharing!
Epic! wonderful scenes and concept. Outstanding Sr. Always pushing the visual limit.
Best short cinematic video I have seen in quite some time! 👍🏻👍🏻
Amazing little film, short but bold.. I really enjoyed it..
Not entirely sure what I just watched and even more confused to why I feel soo inspired... That was beautiful, awesome job guys!!
Probably not the meaning of the film but what I got from it is actually how meaningless life can be. Like we can be working our asses off all day, then sleep then repeat. And what are we really working our asses off for? Just paper, like this guy is working his ass off for buttons, something worthless but we gave it value. The suit to me represents that even if your life is shit you better make it look like its good, you better look presentable. Again, probably not the meaning (because my explanation has nothing to do with unity/Henosis) but I like how films like these make you think and give every viewer a different experience and different meaning. Cool.
Incredible visual story telling Luke!
The color grading is fantastic.
Michele Ren Thanks!
Presented in stunning 1080p.
This is beautiful! Absolutely love the imagery.
Glad you enjoyed :)
Amazing stuff as usual Neumannfilms ... inspiring story telling with beautiful images
Excellent video
wow, awesome! got to love the RED.....
Majestic and compelling.
Luke - Interesting film and beautifully shot.
Stunningly beautiful work. Huge congrats.
this video is insane, only good filmmakers will appreciate this kind of work, 2:54 should be the Poster for this film.
what I admire about this video and what makes it different is everything you see in front of you mainly was made by one guy.
Thank you again Luke really in love with this channel content and its been like this since the beginning always good.
beside that, was there anyone able to watch this in 8k? cuz my browser ( Safari ) gives me an error when I tried to watch it in 8k!!
My wife and I did everything. Two people :)
This gave me shivers.
This is sick. The image is beautiful.
WOW!! GREAT VIDEO GUYS, AWESOME WORK!!!
Thanks!
Amazing video guys. Well done. Loved it.
The Post Color Blog Thanks man
Really enjoyed this. Thanks for sharing.
I think this video was politically symbolic. it tells the story from both sides. it shows the guy working his ass off just to give it all back, while keeping little for himself. It's the American "dream" while the air quality is intolerable and industry has faded.
Pretty well sums it up. Well said.
exactly my thoughts. well said
Amazing! Loved the cine works.
Thank you
VERY WELL DONE!!! BRAVO SIR
Thanks buddy :)
Stunning.
1BigBucks1 Thank you sir.
wow so it has come to this i'm sat here watching an 8k film at 1080p on a 720p screen what day to be alive and broke lol
the image is amazing...the grading etc FUEGO!
:)
very beautiful video
this is weirdly fascinating. . . . . .
ouah the quality is insane !!!!!! :)
the best i can do is watch in 4 k, but thanks for the 8 k.
my computer even struggles on 144p :I
Wow! Congratulations, this is your top work at the moment, in my opinion! You have created a perfect atmosphere, stunning visuals, sounds... It's like a Tarsem Singh piece, I love it!
I imagine however that the greatness of the work does not come from the sensor resolution and I am sure you could have done it with a 4K camera :)
Absolutely love this piece. Well my interpretation of it at least. In a nutshell I think the working man (average American), who is a slave to the cooperation busts his ass for the corporation which is raping the country, hence the desolate, destitute land. He works and works and gives his all to the corporation which gives him barely anything back in return while the nation suffers and is dying. Then one day he starts giving back to the nation instead...first a little...he sees some change....then alot, he see's alot of change. The nation is nourished and then blossoms (gorgeous shot in the green forest) ...and he is finally free (end shot with his gas mask on the ground and freedom in the background)
Technical wise I think those sigma art lenses are way 2 sharp on the 8k sensor....the kowa shots looks much better to me. Those sigmas need some serious diffusion. Anyway great piece...Great work. Luke and Marika!
Totally agreed, I added post filters like crazy and it's still too sharp. I so wanted to use the Kowas for everything but we only had them for a limited time.
Very Creative
i want to believe that the meaning is that the guy was transported to the forest and life when gently he gave his money to a poor women, who actually was kind of a god? i dont know... but the quality is just AWESOME!!!! sorry the mistakes, inglish is not my first language
Either that or he was incinerated for foolishly giving away his hard earned buttons? :)
Awesome! Well done
Richie Kirk Thanks :)
Brilliant!
GH5 - woot! Congrats on the Panasonic gig! Look forward to hearing your thoughts on whether bitrate is enough and whether sensor improves low-light and DR performance on GH4.
very intriguing, beautiful visuals. I think i grasped the concept but would like to know more :)
Thanks! Something will be on NoFilmSchool at some point.
Love it!
Amazing!!!
so good
nice, really dig the music
Thanks! The music was honestly one of the hardest parts on this one.
And now we know that you were correct :(
That was great
very impressive !
Thanks :)
very inspirational work (Y)
Thats better than my eyesight
image looks amazing. liked the story as well..... the music very powerful - tried to watch it on 8k on my 4k monitor... just didnt hold up.... 4k is stunning... just curious what size was the final file on output for 8k for the 3:31 minutes.... thanks
which resolution mode do i have to choose on the RED Helium Sensor for a 2x anamorph lens ?
It's not an option in the main menu, you need to go to Advanced (on the left of the normal resolutions) and then choose 8K 6:5 and a 2x Anamorphic Lookaround.
Wow!
impressive!
Beautiful image, but I wonder why it's a little bit laggy for me? Even if the video is loaded :(
great work guys... bit slow on the uptake as to what the theme was. Nonetheless amazing cinematic shots. Top work !
Thanks! We are going to be doing an interview with NoFilmSchool about it and we might share our own thoughts about it there. Your own interpretation is the correct one though, ours is our own for certain reasons that not everyone might share etc.
RightyO. Really cool concept though. Love all your productions too. Talented lads!
Beautiful production values, as always.
The metaphors in this confused me. Perhaps I'm being too literal but, if the items (buttons, etc.) are valuable, as they seem to be, then why let them bounce off the desk or miss going into the bottle?
(I guess it needed to be a bit more buttoned down. :)
Because the boss has so many he doesn't even care :)
very nice
Nice video. I think the higher resolutions you go the more diminishing returns. At normal viewing distance on my 30" 4K monitor, I don't see a really discernible difference between 4K and 8K (ever so slightly sharper and more details maybe). On my 1080p monitor, I see a big difference between 1080p and 1440p / 4K though (with 8K looking basically the same as 4K but not at smooth with slower playback).
Definitely. I think where it will help out in streaming is a better data rate (less compression).
Hi Luke, great film! May I ask which Kowa anamorphics you used for this? Thanks!
Great image quality. Red Helium, I take it?
Chris Geden Thanks, RED Epic W
I don't pretend to fully understand it but, nonetheless, I find it to be very compelling!
Did you upload this as a hdr video? Also what are your thoughts on youtube's recent announcement of hdr video support. Does this mean that there will be a huge improvement over youtube compression artifacts since its 10 bit video?
wow this is technically one of the most gorgeous things i've ever seen or heard. parts kinda remind me of "the fall". Only thing I didn't really understand was that if the buttons represented some precious resource like time/money, why was "the Man" so careless with dumping them all over the table with half of them falling off, and why was the protagonist so careless dumping them in the bottle, with half of them missing the mouth and falling on the ground? I'm all for cool visuals, but it kinda takes me out of it when things like that don't seem to add up. Like I think it would have felt more powerful for him to consider the buttons bore sacred and agonize over getting every last one into the bottle. I could be misunderstanding, though.
Both scenes were narrative choices, that's all I will say :) I don't want to give you my meaning because that would take away yours. There was a reason behind it though...
fair enough! i'll think on it more!
epic! you fly the epic w on the ronin mx?
Thomas Schweighofer Thanks! Yeah, the Ronin MX and the Matrice 600
Thought so, thanks! :)
Great job - I kind of got the context without first reading your thoughts - my take was more along the lines of the middle classes continuing to slave away for some mythical ideal while everything around them decays - both physically and spiritually... anyway - that was my take and I thought the execution was superb!
I don't quite understand and I'm very happy about it
Wowsers, what lenses?
MrWelschvide Kowa Anamorphic and Sigma ART
henosis Term Image (ενωσις)
(Language: Greek)
Short Description: unity
Long Description: unity; unity is the characteristic that everything has in common; anything depends on unity and only unity is the goal of all things; in Neoplatonism, the soul’s purification, accomplished primarily through philosophy, culminates in noetic vision and finally in mystical union (Plot. Enn.VI.7.36); the divine truth is an indivisible henosis of real beings.
Source(s): The Golden Chain: An Anthology of Platonic and Pythagorean Philosophy, by Dr. Algis Uždavinys
Am I the only one watching just for red epic W
me tooo buddy
This should be a video for one of Calvin Harris' or David Guetta's songs!!
How Does The GH5, 1DX, or 5d Mark IV stand up to this imagery?
great stuff! have you had any trouble mounting the red on the ronin mx?
TERRAMOUNT Thanks, yeah it took some trial and error to get the camera ready to fly.
error? what is the problem? size? balancing?
TERRAMOUNT Power. You need to use the Jetpack back because the new RED cameras don't have DC in on the brain (don't get me started). Then the official DJI lemo to D tap cable is at a right angle and the head of the cable hits the gimbal and won't go in properly, so you need to open up the Jetpack and turn the DC in port 90 degrees.
I see... okay not so cool :( (I have the Ronin MX).. Thanks for the reply! :)
It's possible, it just took me a while to figure it out. Messing up, buying something else, waiting for it to ship, finding out that doesn't work either, waiting for shipping again. Rinse and repeat :) It works now though.
So you gonna tell us the meaning or nah lol
well... theres the apocalypse.. a crazy murderous poor lady who symbolizes USA.. who acts kind and kills a man for its own profit.... and this videos is released in the time of Donald Trumps victory...you stitch it together...
KOISHIK Yes he has.
Kenji Gunawan what is the meaning?
Wait, that's really the meaning? Come on.
what? I took it as the scenes show him moving to the left side of the screen when he was going to the man at the desk and the woman and home were on his right. His dreams were realized when he let go of his grind of working for the man at the desk and was generous to the mysterious begger. Not sure how you got Trump out of this.
Not too shabby at all
increrible film
i am big fan of your videos wish someday i can be as good as you are....:)..!
can you share your export setting for this?