Feature being shot on XHA1 w/Letus at DVinfo.net

Bryan Wilkat · June 24th, 2009, 11:27 AM

Here's a link to our trailer (or sample footage, if you will).

JULIET IS THE SUN

it's the XHA1 w/Letus, Nikon lenses and VIVIDRGB preset. I preferred the Canon's stock white balance presets for tungsten and sunlight over custom white balancing. I felt it gave a warmer look to the image whereas custom white balancing (especially in tungsten settings) was cooler and seemed like vivid to me (but thats just my preference).

Christopher Warwick · June 24th, 2009, 01:42 PM

Hi Bryan,

It looks very promising. What mount do you have on the Letus, Nikon? As a matter of interest, what lenses are you using?

Are you going to take it to the festivals?

Chris

Bryan Wilkat · June 24th, 2009, 04:34 PM

Hey Chris,

Yeah I got the Nikon mount, we've been using a 35mm, 50mm and a 70-300mm Sigma that works on both digital and manual slr's (it's a heavy lens but has a handy macro setting for extreme close ups! if you look for it, look for a used one cause the new ones are for Digital slr's only!)

We do plan to submit to festivals as well as screen at some local Theatres here in montreal, hopefully we can find some distribution too, so if there are any distributers out there..?

-Bryan

Luke Hill · June 24th, 2009, 06:09 PM

Well done - I hope it does well for you!

Dennis Murphy · June 24th, 2009, 06:44 PM

I like the look of that. It has a raw hard-coreness about it.

Scott Gold · June 25th, 2009, 10:14 AM

Loved the look of it. Very well shot. My only gripe is that I felt like the music was misplaced.... didn't seem to fit the look or feel of the footage and edit.

Looks great! Thanks for sharing.

Cole McDonald · June 25th, 2009, 02:31 PM

I've been using the presets as well on my XL1s - I can then adjust the look using gels on the lights (I also have one preset balanced to a light peach piece of scrapbooking paper to push the image cooler - got the idea from the marlathemovie website). These 3 tend to be everything I shoot with.

Bryan Wilkat · June 26th, 2009, 10:26 AM

Hey, thanks for all your feedback guys! I'm pretty flattered right now, heheh

and Cole, that's friggin' brilliant! I'm gonna go test that out, thanks!

also Dennis, I love that surf footage on your website, it looks awesome!

Cole McDonald · June 26th, 2009, 11:53 PM

super subtle colors though, anything more will throw it way off. If you get all the main ones and keep them in a folder, you can skew the color any way you'd like (it'll skew toward the complimentary color - opposite on the color wheel) to get any effect you want.

Huge warehouse art stores are my friends... we also just used some of those "broken ice" water crystals for plants to stand in for broken glass that we threw in someone's face :) Amazing piece of footage that!

Dennis Murphy · June 27th, 2009, 03:00 PM

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Originally Posted by Bryan Wilkat

also Dennis, I love that surf footage on your website, it looks awesome!

Cheers! It was a lovely light at that beach.

June 24th, 2009, 11:27 AM	#1
Bryan Wilkat Regular Crew Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Montreal, Canada Posts: 171	Feature being shot on XHA1 w/Letus Here's a link to our trailer (or sample footage, if you will). JULIET IS THE SUN it's the XHA1 w/Letus, Nikon lenses and VIVIDRGB preset. I preferred the Canon's stock white balance presets for tungsten and sunlight over custom white balancing. I felt it gave a warmer look to the image whereas custom white balancing (especially in tungsten settings) was cooler and seemed like vivid to me (but thats just my preference).

June 24th, 2009, 06:44 PM	#5
Dennis Murphy Major Player Join Date: May 2006 Location: Whangarei, New Zealand Posts: 396	I like the look of that. It has a raw hard-coreness about it. __________________ http://www.dmvideostuff.co.nz

June 25th, 2009, 10:14 AM	#6
Scott Gold Regular Crew Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Irvine, CA Posts: 194	Loved the look of it. Very well shot. My only gripe is that I felt like the music was misplaced.... didn't seem to fit the look or feel of the footage and edit. Looks great! Thanks for sharing. __________________ www.scott-gold.com

June 25th, 2009, 02:31 PM	#7
Cole McDonald Trustee Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: Sauk Rapids, MN, USA Posts: 1,675	I've been using the presets as well on my XL1s - I can then adjust the look using gels on the lights (I also have one preset balanced to a light peach piece of scrapbooking paper to push the image cooler - got the idea from the marlathemovie website). These 3 tend to be everything I shoot with. __________________ Web Youtube Facebook

June 26th, 2009, 11:53 PM	#9
Cole McDonald Trustee Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: Sauk Rapids, MN, USA Posts: 1,675	super subtle colors though, anything more will throw it way off. If you get all the main ones and keep them in a folder, you can skew the color any way you'd like (it'll skew toward the complimentary color - opposite on the color wheel) to get any effect you want. Huge warehouse art stores are my friends... we also just used some of those "broken ice" water crystals for plants to stand in for broken glass that we threw in someone's face :) Amazing piece of footage that! __________________ Web Youtube Facebook

June 24th, 2009, 01:42 PM	#2
Christopher Warwick Regular Crew Join Date: Dec 2008 Location: Roma, Italy Posts: 83	Hi Bryan, It looks very promising. What mount do you have on the Letus, Nikon? As a matter of interest, what lenses are you using? Are you going to take it to the festivals? Chris

June 24th, 2009, 04:34 PM	#3
Bryan Wilkat Regular Crew Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Montreal, Canada Posts: 171	Hey Chris, Yeah I got the Nikon mount, we've been using a 35mm, 50mm and a 70-300mm Sigma that works on both digital and manual slr's (it's a heavy lens but has a handy macro setting for extreme close ups! if you look for it, look for a used one cause the new ones are for Digital slr's only!) We do plan to submit to festivals as well as screen at some local Theatres here in montreal, hopefully we can find some distribution too, so if there are any distributers out there..? -Bryan

June 24th, 2009, 06:09 PM	#4
Luke Hill Regular Crew Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: Austin, TX Posts: 76	Well done - I hope it does well for you!

June 26th, 2009, 10:26 AM	#8
Bryan Wilkat Regular Crew Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Montreal, Canada Posts: 171	Hey, thanks for all your feedback guys! I'm pretty flattered right now, heheh and Cole, that's friggin' brilliant! I'm gonna go test that out, thanks! also Dennis, I love that surf footage on your website, it looks awesome!