I'm going to be 100% honest, I was only watching to see the quality of the C100 Mk II, but I got sucked in. There was solid characters, an interesting plot, and nothing was too exaggerated or overdone. Overall, you and your team made a great short film. Awesome job!
Absolutely incredible film. The color grading was fantastic. The story line was great, and I loved the foreshadowing from the husband of "I'll finish the shoot tomorrow" to what his dual identity was. Incredible film and stunning film and production. You had me at the edge of my seat in anticipation and I'd love this to be made into a feature length film!
I think people hesitate to buy the Canon c100 because they don't think they can get their narrative Cinema projects to come out with footage that looks as good as yours does in this film.. therefore, I appreciate you creating this film not only because it's just a good story that is shot, directed, and acted well, but also because it shows what this camera is able to produce, without having to have been manufactured by black magic design
Thank you so much! The C100 produces such a great image! I edited this film in Premiere Pro back in 2014 with no 3rd party plugins or add-ons. We just exposed the images properly, I color-graded to taste, and I added a bit of film grain. And it still looks really good, nearly 10 years later! Thanks for watching!
@@themikereda How was the auto focus for you ? Ive heard a lot of reviews saying the Auto Focus on the c100mk2 and c200 are not usable. Im looking to get into Sports Videography. Im primarily coming for 10 years of Weddings and Music Videos.
@@DavinciHD_ We made this back in 2014 so I don't quite remember but I'm fairly certain we were focusing manually for this. I used the C100mk2 for some other projects and the autofocus wasn't perfect but it was good in a pinch.
I was one more person that originally came to this video, to check out the quality. Mainly, I was trying to get inspired, since I just got a Canon C300 Mark 1 a month ago. Well, I was one more person who got surprised and really liked the story you made. Nice work.
It's the best compliment, so thank you! Those Canon cine cameras are so powerful, even 8 years later this film still looks pretty great! Enjoy your C300!
I found this by accident, didnt even mean to click on the video only to realize that this was shot in my hometown of Charlotte. I'm a new filmmaker currently living in NYC! this made my day good job. This was amazing all across the board.
Thanks! I'm glad you dug it! Still in Charlotte here, but hoping to make my way out to NYC or LA in the next few years. I'll have to look you up and you can show me around!
Mike Reda Dope! LA is next on my list as well; if they don’t burn it down that is. I’m home pretty often so if you ever need an extra hand on a production, feel free to reach out. BTS work and or footage, PA work, gear lugger! I’m open to help capture the vision. 4qualitymedia@gmail.com. Best of luck brother. - Demar
This is actually very, very, VERY good. The sound design, direction, editing, scoring, everything is very well executed. Just a tiny suggestion, the entire end credits could have been typed out that would have been really cool. Just have your music while somebody just types out the credits, it would contribute more to the journalistic feel. This could have easily been a feature there's a wealth of potential in this. Bravo!
+Bronner Gaming Thanks for the kind words. I'm so glad you dug the film. We're really proud of it, and just happy that people out there are enjoying it. I really like your idea of having the credits typed out. If we ever get the feature script finished, that might be what we have to do! Thanks again!
+Mike Reda This is very well done. Who did the color grading? It looks very filmic; even for a canon c100. I feel like I'm watching a movie. Could you do a tutorial or talk about how you got such a filmic look? Thanks
+TheResonating Thank you! I did the editing/grading. I honestly didn't do much as far as color grading, I didn't use LUTs or anything. We shot on the C100 in C-Log, I edited in Premiere Pro and basically just used Curves adjustments, some adjustments in hue/saturation, and I added a film grain to give it some texture. But I may actually end up doing a tutorial. Never really thought about it before but if it might be helpful, I'll work on one!
Great job! It really looks like a hollywood film. You just proved me that there is no so much need to shoot in raw. Amazing conclusion... But well, that's not only the quality of the camera that counts, that's also talent. Thanks for your contribution to make me choose the C100 II.
Thanks! I probably did a bit more in post-production than I would have if we shot RAW, but it still worked out great and all the giant file sizes didn't make my computer explode, so that's good too! I used NeatVideo to denoise and used 3-way color correction for the grade.
Yes! I will have to shoot in january and to edit in only one day until the projection of the movie. So It's great that I can have those very light files and pretty cinematic quality! Thanks for the tips, I will try NeatVideo, I just watched some footages and it is pretty amazing! Also, when shooting in AVCHD/MP4, you have to set up carefully the temperature don't you? And have the same in all shoots, or the image is easily corrected in post prod?
Fantastic work! Good Acting, good cinematography, wonderful sound job! I love this camera, the director took the best out of It! Love it! Canon C100 Canon 24-70mm 2.8 II Canon 50mm 1.4 Sound ?????
Edson Pessoa thank you! Yeah the C100 has such a great quality to the image, VERY cinematic. A lot of people ask how I color graded this, but honestly the image looks great because of the camera and the lighting. I didn’t do much to grade it. Thanks again for watching!
Late to the party though 🤣. I was looking for a good Canon C100 footage, just to justify my first Cine Camera on a budget. The last thing I know I was hooked until the end of the movie. Good job well done ✅✅
Fantastic job dude.. I was thinkin about buying A7r2, but canon's colours are just fantastic. You think c100m2 is still a thing? I really don't care about 4k, i always have fun watching 90s-2000s movies because of movie feeling. I think more pixels made it so much real polished view. What do you think of that? And did you use any stabilisation unit? Thanks for making amazing film
Thanks for the kind words! The C100 was great for us, and we're really excited about the newly announced C200. Canon's colors are just SO much better than Sony's colors. My production company uses an a7Sii and we love it because it's great in low light, has the flexibility of 4K and good 120fps slow motion, but we spend way too much time color correcting. I highly recommend the C100 or the C100ii if you're still looking. We didn't use any stabilization except for a tripod and a homemade dolly track with PVC pipes!
hi nice joob, i wish to buy a c100 mark ii for wedding and adv video, do you think that is still a good job camera today, even if it hasn't 4k or super slow motion?
Thanks so much. That's always the best compliment, when people weren't expecting to watch but ended up staying the whole time. Makes me really happy people are still enjoying this little film!
great little film! love the style :) I know that very first song from the opening credits but cannot put my finger on it, can you recall the name? thanks.
I don't remember the name off the top of my head, but it was a freebie I downloaded from Neumann Films like 5 years ago. Funny enough, whoever edited the trailer for one of the Hobbit movies used the same track!
We made this back in 2015 so I think the lighting was done with an Arri tungsten kit. Hot lights, no LEDs. And for sound I don't know what mic we used but I think it was a RODE NTG straight into a Zoom H4n recorder.
Woah. I'm looking to buy a c100 ii. I am curious what lenses you used, audio, and how the hell you made this look like Hollywood. Wow!! Seriously. Please give some details ;)
The lenses are listed up above. The C100 is very cinematic and color grading in the free version of Davinci Resolve 12.5.4 will be more than sufficient. My guess is that audio was recorded both on the C100 and using a boom pole to an audio recorder with shotgun mic and synced up in post.
Hey Jason thanks for the kind comments! We used the Canon C100 (first generation), and we used Canon 24-70mm 2.8 and Canon 50mm 1.4 lenses. I edited in Adobe Premiere and didn't use any color LUTs for color grading. In fact, I didn't even know what a LUT was at that time. I basically just used curves to manipulate the contrast, and then I adjusted saturation as-needed shot by shot. As for sound, I can't take credit for that. One of my friends is a sound mixer/boom operator and he took care of us. But as wakeup1986 mentions below, DaVinci Resolve is a great program for color correcting, but since I've always used Premiere, I stuck with what I know! Hope that helps.
I can not believe you achieved this cinematic quality with just curves and saturation based, just proves the c100m2 can look cinematic in the right hands. Can i ask if you fused over lighting or was a lot of it practical lights? I think you'd be surprised to know that I just purchased this camera after seeing this, you pursuaded me into keeping budget low for high quality, as I see 100's of you tubers and indie film makers with their fancy 4.5k red cameras who still don't produce a picture this good and their footage looks i-phoney or 5Dish. I wish I had been on set lol .. congrats and thanks for helping me come to the conclusion that 3k, 4k up to 8k really simply isn't needed for early career indie film making.
I agree! It doesn't matter how many K you have (although, added flexibility IS nice to have), but if you know how to light and compose a shot, you can get incredibly cinematic footage with a "budget-friendly" camera. We did use lights, but they weren't very high quality. Some cheap softbox lights from Amazon and we did have a few 1K fresnel lights that we used occasionally, but we tried to make use of whatever natural light we had, and then add a little bit extra with our lights. I can tell you it wasn't anything fancy! Good luck with your new purchase, have fun!
All footage was recorded internally on the SD card. We just spent a lot of time lighting and exposing properly and then color grading to achieve the right look!
Sorry if this comes off as ignorant but I'm sort of just getting into this stuff. I saw you filmed with two separate lenses, which one would work better for low light?? I'm looking to rent a c100 for a project i'm working on and pretty much the whole video would be shot in low light. Also I noticed between the two lenses one is like double the cost of the other, does it (the 24-70mm) have better picture quality than the other one?? Why is the cost difference so drastic? Also, on a less technical note, this short film was amazing. I was truly shocked at the end.
+davonblain Thanks for the comment! No worries at all, I was asking the same questions just a few years ago. The 24-70mm is a great lens; it's very sharp and it allows you to shoot wide (24mm) and zoomed-in at 70mm, and has really high-quality glass, which is why it's so expensive. It does well in low light because the aperture opens to f/2.8 but the 50mm lens opens to f/1.4 which lets in a lot more light. The 50mm probably has better-quality glass, but at f/1.4 it is hard to maintain focus because the depth of field is so shallow. And the other downside to the 50mm is that you can only shoot at 50mm, you can't zoom in or out. So the best lens depends on what you're shooting, but I shoot almost everything with the 24-70mm and it works perfectly for me. You can also push the ISO on the C100 up to nearly 4000 before the image gets TOO grainy. That will also help in a low-light setting. Also, I would highly recommend renting through LensRentals.com because they have a LOT of gear to rent, and the prices are great. Hope that helps!
dude thank you so much for replying!!!! seriously you really went out of your way to explain that throughly to me, you just gained subscriber lol. I will definitely check out that website and keep all of the advice you just told me in mind. Excited for your future work man!
Was this shot with the Canon c100 or the c100 mark 2? From the description I would assume the c100 but from the comments on the video, I'm a little confused. Great short film by the way, inspiring for newbies like myself. thanks
Thanks! This was shot on the Mark I but by the time this came out and people started watching it, the Mark II had come out, so a lot of people were using the new model.
I see that this film was created with the c100 Mark 1 ... I'm looking to create cinematic images, not necessarily documentaries.. that being said, looking at this film and seeing that it was created with the mark 1, I think that is enough to convince me to buy that camera, even now in 2022,.... despite many people describing the Mark 1 as a great documentary camera, this that you've created is really nothing short of cinematic.. meantime, amazingly, in 2022, the c100 mark one can be found on sale, used, in some cases for prices like $680
It really is a great camera, one of my favorites. Now 7 years later I definitely see some of its limitations by not shooting 4K and still being an 8-bit camera (although newer models might have been updated? Can’t say for sure) but for the price, it’s absolutely fantastic. I will say, I spent a LOT of time color grading this, but the fact that the image still looks so clean after all the coloring I did is a testament to the quality of the raw images. Good luck, hope you get some great footage out of it!
Hmmmm wait, the terrorist says ... "if you ignore me their blood will be on your hands" and later he says "there is nothing you can do" so how would there be blood on the reporters hands if there was no way of him stopping the attack???
Well, as he says later, there's nothing he can do to stop the attack, but if he doesn't report the story and shine a spotlight on what has been happening, more and more attacks will occur and the public will never know the truth. It's beyond this one attack, it's the blood of countless other attacks that will happen if he doesn't uncover the truth.
Richard Schertzer we didn’t submit to any of these. Honestly we were very proud of the film but didn’t expect it to have as big of a response as it has. Probably too late to submit to a lot of big festivals now though.
Really compelling story, though it did seem a little predictable. Perhaps introducing the husband and wife at the beginning would have been better, maybe a discussion in bed. Have her go into the office and then move to the reporter character. The build up to the ending was excellent though the ending itself was very anti-climatic. Where were the bodies? What were his motives? Everything else, expertly done. Great work.
+Max Palombella Hey Max, thanks for the comments. I think you may be right, introducing the husband and wife earlier may have made us care about them a little bit more. Great feedback! We unfortunately just didn't have the budget or time to expand the ending the way we would have liked. In fact we only had 1 "police" car, we had to lock off the shot and double the car to make it look like we had more of a police presence. We have a feature-length script that we'd love to film one day, and if that ever happens we will definitely be building on what we have here. Thanks again!
I'm going to be 100% honest, I was only watching to see the quality of the C100 Mk II, but I got sucked in. There was solid characters, an interesting plot, and nothing was too exaggerated or overdone. Overall, you and your team made a great short film. Awesome job!
Dang the actors and way this was put together was incredible
I wasn't expecting much because I was just looking at how the C100 looks and then I ended up getting drawn into the story. Great job! :D
Same here, very great work. Amazing!!
Me three 🤣🤣🤣
I was on the fence about getting the C100 but I might just do it now, the quality and the story was amazing!
Absolutely incredible film. The color grading was fantastic. The story line was great, and I loved the foreshadowing from the husband of "I'll finish the shoot tomorrow" to what his dual identity was. Incredible film and stunning film and production. You had me at the edge of my seat in anticipation and I'd love this to be made into a feature length film!
Alicia Gavin ditto completely agree. great short.
Loved the shots, audio was perfect, story line was superb. Everything fit perfectly! Great work!
I think people hesitate to buy the Canon c100 because they don't think they can get their narrative Cinema projects to come out with footage that looks as good as yours does in this film.. therefore, I appreciate you creating this film not only because it's just a good story that is shot, directed, and acted well, but also because it shows what this camera is able to produce, without having to have been manufactured by black magic design
Thank you so much! The C100 produces such a great image! I edited this film in Premiere Pro back in 2014 with no 3rd party plugins or add-ons. We just exposed the images properly, I color-graded to taste, and I added a bit of film grain. And it still looks really good, nearly 10 years later! Thanks for watching!
Fantastic job on this Production Mike! One of the better short films I have seen! Especially the production value!
Came to look at the quality of the C100mkii as im possibly thinking about it for my feature film. The Story you told kept me watching. Wonderful film
Thanks! That’s the best compliment!
@@themikereda How was the auto focus for you ? Ive heard a lot of reviews saying the Auto Focus on the c100mk2 and c200 are not usable.
Im looking to get into Sports Videography. Im primarily coming for 10 years of Weddings and Music Videos.
@@DavinciHD_ We made this back in 2014 so I don't quite remember but I'm fairly certain we were focusing manually for this. I used the C100mk2 for some other projects and the autofocus wasn't perfect but it was good in a pinch.
I was one more person that originally came to this video, to check out the quality. Mainly, I was trying to get inspired, since I just got a Canon C300 Mark 1 a month ago. Well, I was one more person who got surprised and really liked the story you made. Nice work.
It's the best compliment, so thank you! Those Canon cine cameras are so powerful, even 8 years later this film still looks pretty great! Enjoy your C300!
I was just here for the quality of the camera then Boom.. HOOKED ON THE STORY ! Awesome JOB
Thank you so much! I'm glad people are still really enjoying this flick! We worked really hard on it!
I found this by accident, didnt even mean to click on the video only to realize that this was shot in my hometown of Charlotte. I'm a new filmmaker currently living in NYC! this made my day good job. This was amazing all across the board.
Thanks! I'm glad you dug it! Still in Charlotte here, but hoping to make my way out to NYC or LA in the next few years. I'll have to look you up and you can show me around!
Mike Reda Dope! LA is next on my list as well; if they don’t burn it down that is. I’m home pretty often so if you ever need an extra hand on a production, feel free to reach out. BTS work and or footage, PA work, gear lugger! I’m open to help capture the vision. 4qualitymedia@gmail.com. Best of luck brother. - Demar
I know that I'm late to the party but I hope that you are still making films. This was really thought provoking!
Thanks for all the encouragement! Definitely still making films. We are in pre production on our first feature film now!
It should be award winning. So awesome
This is actually very, very, VERY good. The sound design, direction, editing, scoring, everything is very well executed. Just a tiny suggestion, the entire end credits could have been typed out that would have been really cool. Just have your music while somebody just types out the credits, it would contribute more to the journalistic feel. This could have easily been a feature there's a wealth of potential in this. Bravo!
+Bronner Gaming Thanks for the kind words. I'm so glad you dug the film. We're really proud of it, and just happy that people out there are enjoying it. I really like your idea of having the credits typed out. If we ever get the feature script finished, that might be what we have to do! Thanks again!
+Mike Reda This is very well done. Who did the color grading? It looks very filmic; even for a canon c100. I feel like I'm watching a movie. Could you do a tutorial or talk about how you got such a filmic look? Thanks
+TheResonating Thank you! I did the editing/grading. I honestly didn't do much as far as color grading, I didn't use LUTs or anything. We shot on the C100 in C-Log, I edited in Premiere Pro and basically just used Curves adjustments, some adjustments in hue/saturation, and I added a film grain to give it some texture. But I may actually end up doing a tutorial. Never really thought about it before but if it might be helpful, I'll work on one!
I'd love a tutorial! I'm really trying to add some professionalism to my short films!
Great job! It really looks like a hollywood film. You just proved me that there is no so much need to shoot in raw. Amazing conclusion... But well, that's not only the quality of the camera that counts, that's also talent. Thanks for your contribution to make me choose the C100 II.
Thanks! I probably did a bit more in post-production than I would have if we shot RAW, but it still worked out great and all the giant file sizes didn't make my computer explode, so that's good too! I used NeatVideo to denoise and used 3-way color correction for the grade.
Yes! I will have to shoot in january and to edit in only one day until the projection of the movie. So It's great that I can have those very light files and pretty cinematic quality! Thanks for the tips, I will try NeatVideo, I just watched some footages and it is pretty amazing! Also, when shooting in AVCHD/MP4, you have to set up carefully the temperature don't you? And have the same in all shoots, or the image is easily corrected in post prod?
Keep going great job
Thank you!
Well by reading all d comments it seems the movies about c100....
Btw gr8 work man..
holy crap! amazing job!!
just wow!
awesome work man
subbed :D
damn that transition at 6:00 was nice
Yeah, soo nice!!
I agree. Great transition.
"match cut" or "raccord"
Fantastic work!
Good Acting, good cinematography, wonderful sound job!
I love this camera, the director took the best out of It! Love it!
Canon C100
Canon 24-70mm 2.8 II
Canon 50mm 1.4
Sound ?????
Edson Pessoa thank you! Yeah the C100 has such a great quality to the image, VERY cinematic. A lot of people ask how I color graded this, but honestly the image looks great because of the camera and the lighting. I didn’t do much to grade it. Thanks again for watching!
Amazing Work!
Great cinematography
Thanks!
Outstanding job, Great
Thanks! Glad you enjoyed it!
Late to the party though 🤣. I was looking for a good Canon C100 footage, just to justify my first Cine Camera on a budget. The last thing I know I was hooked until the end of the movie. Good job well done ✅✅
Late to the party or not, we're glad to have you! Thanks for the kind words, glad you enjoyed it!
Fantastic job dude.. I was thinkin about buying A7r2, but canon's colours are just fantastic. You think c100m2 is still a thing? I really don't care about 4k, i always have fun watching 90s-2000s movies because of movie feeling. I think more pixels made it so much real polished view. What do you think of that? And did you use any stabilisation unit? Thanks for making amazing film
Thanks for the kind words! The C100 was great for us, and we're really excited about the newly announced C200. Canon's colors are just SO much better than Sony's colors. My production company uses an a7Sii and we love it because it's great in low light, has the flexibility of 4K and good 120fps slow motion, but we spend way too much time color correcting. I highly recommend the C100 or the C100ii if you're still looking. We didn't use any stabilization except for a tripod and a homemade dolly track with PVC pipes!
Thanks for fast answer Mike, really appreciated! I think i'll go for C100 mark2 version. I'm diggin your channel :) You guys did very good job really.
hi nice joob, i wish to buy a c100 mark ii for wedding and adv video, do you think that is still a good job camera today, even if it hasn't 4k or super slow motion?
Cool stuff!
Same. came to see the camera quality but stayed for the whole show...question...why is it Kevin? lol
Enjoyed this short very much, only came to see the camera quality
Thanks so much. That's always the best compliment, when people weren't expecting to watch but ended up staying the whole time. Makes me really happy people are still enjoying this little film!
great little film! love the style :)
I know that very first song from the opening credits but cannot put my finger on it, can you recall the name?
thanks.
I don't remember the name off the top of my head, but it was a freebie I downloaded from Neumann Films like 5 years ago. Funny enough, whoever edited the trailer for one of the Hobbit movies used the same track!
What did you use for audio and lighting?
We made this back in 2015 so I think the lighting was done with an Arri tungsten kit. Hot lights, no LEDs. And for sound I don't know what mic we used but I think it was a RODE NTG straight into a Zoom H4n recorder.
Woah. I'm looking to buy a c100 ii. I am curious what lenses you used, audio, and how the hell you made this look like Hollywood. Wow!! Seriously. Please give some details ;)
The lenses are listed up above. The C100 is very cinematic and color grading in the free version of Davinci Resolve 12.5.4 will be more than sufficient. My guess is that audio was recorded both on the C100 and using a boom pole to an audio recorder with shotgun mic and synced up in post.
and I just noticed he described his color grading down below to Bronner Media in case you're interested.
Hey Jason thanks for the kind comments! We used the Canon C100 (first generation), and we used Canon 24-70mm 2.8 and Canon 50mm 1.4 lenses. I edited in Adobe Premiere and didn't use any color LUTs for color grading. In fact, I didn't even know what a LUT was at that time. I basically just used curves to manipulate the contrast, and then I adjusted saturation as-needed shot by shot. As for sound, I can't take credit for that. One of my friends is a sound mixer/boom operator and he took care of us. But as wakeup1986 mentions below, DaVinci Resolve is a great program for color correcting, but since I've always used Premiere, I stuck with what I know! Hope that helps.
I can not believe you achieved this cinematic quality with just curves and saturation based, just proves the c100m2 can look cinematic in the right hands. Can i ask if you fused over lighting or was a lot of it practical lights? I think you'd be surprised to know that I just purchased this camera after seeing this, you pursuaded me into keeping budget low for high quality, as I see 100's of you tubers and indie film makers with their fancy 4.5k red cameras who still don't produce a picture this good and their footage looks i-phoney or 5Dish. I wish I had been on set lol .. congrats and thanks for helping me come to the conclusion that 3k, 4k up to 8k really simply isn't needed for early career indie film making.
I agree! It doesn't matter how many K you have (although, added flexibility IS nice to have), but if you know how to light and compose a shot, you can get incredibly cinematic footage with a "budget-friendly" camera. We did use lights, but they weren't very high quality. Some cheap softbox lights from Amazon and we did have a few 1K fresnel lights that we used occasionally, but we tried to make use of whatever natural light we had, and then add a little bit extra with our lights. I can tell you it wasn't anything fancy! Good luck with your new purchase, have fun!
Great work, Mike! Which C100 did you use, the mark 1 or 2?
+Thinking Art Entertainment Thanks! We used the Mark 1. I actually don't even think the Mark 2 was out when we filmed this.
Hi ! Did you use an external recorder to capture ( Atomos ninja 2) or all footage recorded internally on sd card?
All footage was recorded internally on the SD card. We just spent a lot of time lighting and exposing properly and then color grading to achieve the right look!
Sorry if this comes off as ignorant but I'm sort of just getting into this stuff. I saw you filmed with two separate lenses, which one would work better for low light?? I'm looking to rent a c100 for a project i'm working on and pretty much the whole video would be shot in low light. Also I noticed between the two lenses one is like double the cost of the other, does it (the 24-70mm) have better picture quality than the other one?? Why is the cost difference so drastic?
Also, on a less technical note, this short film was amazing. I was truly shocked at the end.
+davonblain Thanks for the comment! No worries at all, I was asking the same questions just a few years ago. The 24-70mm is a great lens; it's very sharp and it allows you to shoot wide (24mm) and zoomed-in at 70mm, and has really high-quality glass, which is why it's so expensive. It does well in low light because the aperture opens to f/2.8 but the 50mm lens opens to f/1.4 which lets in a lot more light. The 50mm probably has better-quality glass, but at f/1.4 it is hard to maintain focus because the depth of field is so shallow. And the other downside to the 50mm is that you can only shoot at 50mm, you can't zoom in or out. So the best lens depends on what you're shooting, but I shoot almost everything with the 24-70mm and it works perfectly for me. You can also push the ISO on the C100 up to nearly 4000 before the image gets TOO grainy. That will also help in a low-light setting. Also, I would highly recommend renting through LensRentals.com because they have a LOT of gear to rent, and the prices are great. Hope that helps!
dude thank you so much for replying!!!! seriously you really went out of your way to explain that throughly to me, you just gained subscriber lol. I will definitely check out that website and keep all of the advice you just told me in mind. Excited for your future work man!
I loved this movie, BUT
if in the movie you have three characters, it's difficult to hide the final twist :)
Haha yeah we always thought it should have he a few more characters to keep that twist secret!
Was this shot with the Canon c100 or the c100 mark 2? From the description I would assume the c100 but from the comments on the video, I'm a little confused. Great short film by the way, inspiring for newbies like myself. thanks
Thanks! This was shot on the Mark I but by the time this came out and people started watching it, the Mark II had come out, so a lot of people were using the new model.
fucking dope
I see that this film was created with the c100 Mark 1 ... I'm looking to create cinematic images, not necessarily documentaries.. that being said, looking at this film and seeing that it was created with the mark 1, I think that is enough to convince me to buy that camera, even now in 2022,.... despite many people describing the Mark 1 as a great documentary camera, this that you've created is really nothing short of cinematic.. meantime, amazingly, in 2022, the c100 mark one can be found on sale, used, in some cases for prices like $680
It really is a great camera, one of my favorites. Now 7 years later I definitely see some of its limitations by not shooting 4K and still being an 8-bit camera (although newer models might have been updated? Can’t say for sure) but for the price, it’s absolutely fantastic. I will say, I spent a LOT of time color grading this, but the fact that the image still looks so clean after all the coloring I did is a testament to the quality of the raw images. Good luck, hope you get some great footage out of it!
Much thanks Mike for the positive words & encouragement and props once again for this film
Was this Shot in C-LOG??
charles Benincasa It’s been a while since we shot, but if I remember correctly, it was shot in C-Log.
I really like short films T.T I wanted be in some good one haha
Hmmmm wait, the terrorist says ... "if you ignore me their blood will be on your hands" and later he says "there is nothing you can do" so how would there be blood on the reporters hands if there was no way of him stopping the attack???
Well, as he says later, there's nothing he can do to stop the attack, but if he doesn't report the story and shine a spotlight on what has been happening, more and more attacks will occur and the public will never know the truth. It's beyond this one attack, it's the blood of countless other attacks that will happen if he doesn't uncover the truth.
+Mike Reda ok I see what you mean, nice idea man! hope I did'nt offend!
Did you submit to sundance, tribeca or slamdance?
Richard Schertzer we didn’t submit to any of these. Honestly we were very proud of the film but didn’t expect it to have as big of a response as it has. Probably too late to submit to a lot of big festivals now though.
Awesome I love Yu-Gi-Oh
Really compelling story, though it did seem a little predictable. Perhaps introducing the husband and wife at the beginning would have been better, maybe a discussion in bed. Have her go into the office and then move to the reporter character. The build up to the ending was excellent though the ending itself was very anti-climatic. Where were the bodies? What were his motives? Everything else, expertly done. Great work.
+Max Palombella Hey Max, thanks for the comments. I think you may be right, introducing the husband and wife earlier may have made us care about them a little bit more. Great feedback! We unfortunately just didn't have the budget or time to expand the ending the way we would have liked. In fact we only had 1 "police" car, we had to lock off the shot and double the car to make it look like we had more of a police presence. We have a feature-length script that we'd love to film one day, and if that ever happens we will definitely be building on what we have here. Thanks again!
why ? why was it so bad ? unreal waste of resources ! pure shit !
emdob100 Sorry you didn’t like the film, but thanks for the thoughtful comment and constructive criticism!