The Visitor - A short film I was recently the Cinematographer and Editor on. BMCC, 24fps, Prores.

Thanks @vicharris. Possibly could've have squeezed it down to 3mins, but just felt that this particular story needed a little more time to breath. It was a tough call.

So far I am feeling fairly confident with operating this camera, it has minimal controls and only four different menus of options to chose from. It's all fairly straight forward so I won't go into too much detail, only that if you know how to operate a DSLR, then you won't feel lost moving up to the Blackmagic Cinema Camera.

http://bradleystearn.blogspot.co.uk/2014/02/filming-with-blackmagic-design-cinema.html

Well to be fair we just figured this out really over at BMCuser and what IRNDs to use.

What is all this IR talk I hear? Can someone please inform me?

Hey @andyharris Seems like you underexposed a little too much for this type of piece. Also the contrast ratio on the talent seems a little severe for it as well. I don't know, maybe there was a reason. Skintones do look good though!

I don't see any type of rim or hair light as well. Next type I would try to add one. Even a small shitty LED would be better than nothing. Need some sort of separation for these talking head bits.

At the risk of sounding negative I feel some strange choices were made shooting that video. As someone already pointed out, the lighting seems somewhat dramatic and not at all congruent with an office setting. I was waiting for the secretary in high-heels to hand him an hdmi cable and bend over the laptop. Had the lighting been placed a little lower you would have that flashlight-below-the-chin halloween horror storytelling look. Also, the chrome bar in the background just to the left of the first subject is highly distracting and splits the frame in two. Almost worst is that it betrays the fact that the camera was not leveled properly. And the sliding shot of the two geeks speaking with their backs to us seems like an equally strange choice, like they're plotting a DDoS attack on a rival's website over Egg McMuffins. The lighting in that shot, which is closer to what I would expect from an office environment, ends up contrasting weirdly with the subsequent shot which feels like it was shot after midnight. Lastly, I can't figure out why you'd want to shoot this in RAW. Why give yourself so much extra work and incur the disk space penalty for a few talking heads? A camera like the GH2 excels in these settings. And you want to do the next one in 4K? Whoah!

@vicharris I've previous used a Colour Munki to profile both my displays. I've always thought that my iMac doesn't really change that much, so this morning I calibrated it again just to check - there was a very small change and a recommendation to reduce brightness.

However I've just taken delivery of a NEC SpectraView monitor for my photographic work. So I copied the video file over and stopped it on a few frames to compare. The SpectraView came with certification and a huge manual on the history of colour etc.

On the SpectraView I can see how your comments apply, especially about contrast ratio between the faces. On the iMac it looks just right (well to me, these things are subjective). On the SpectraView it feels like the saturation is too high, but again about right on the iMac --- they are side by side on the desk and calibrated by the same Munki.

Your suggestion of going up a stop feels right, hopefully the BMCC is still in its 'linear' region.

@spacewig Some of your analysis is about right, it was done in about 2 hours late in the afternoon, the sun was low in the sky for the early shots and it was dark very quickly after that. From memory the camera was level but didn't have a 90 degree angle to the chaps, its a busy programming office packed with desks. The reason for using the 4K is for the larger sensor - in this particular office I struggle with camera distance, mostly jammed against the far wall. I'm hoping that my 70-200 lens will take in a little more and help with DOF. On the RAW side disk space isn't causing me any worries. You have made me think about bringing my Sedna Hacked GH2 out of its retirement.

Thanks Chaps ....

Here's another example of just how much you can save stuff shot in ProRes. This was shot in the worst possible lighting conditions as you can see by the before image. 5 min in Resolve for a first pass. Not bad. SLR12mm MK2

@jasonthomas77

Nice work. Who ever did the edit did nice work as well.

Thanks @Brian202020. Editor was Damil Harrison. I'm not a trolling @ewstrobe2009, just new to the whole Bmcc thing. Guess I have to post more and make my presence known in the future. Thanks for the kind words.

The new firmware, version 1.8 is now official.

http://www.blackmagicdesign.com/support/family/14