I am not someone who likes to write, but sometimes I have some Ideas that I would like to shoot someday, a few days ago I was watching a netflix serie, and I got inspired and I had the idea to create a film about how things that you do affect the life of others. For example, If I block the pathway because I was using my phone and I didn’t notice, and I make someone miss the train, how far my action goes, like the person miss the train, get late at the job, where his boss is awaiting for him to go for a meeting, the people in the meeting are losing their time waiting for the boss…

Well, this is just an idea…

Aerial images are on a hype now ! DJI made it easy and cheap to shoot things from above, different from the past where we needed to rent a helicopter, now with a $1000 you can buy a drone that produce beautiful 4k cinematic footage.

In this review we can see how good it can be:

While on a hunting trip, a sportsman (Josh Brolin) finds dead men and a stash of cash in the remote back country of West Texas, the result of a drug deal gone wrong. The greedy hunter takes the cash, but soon discovers that the resourceful criminal responsible for the drug deal, an outlaw named Anton Chigurh (Javier Bardem), has a way of tracking the loot. The hunter thus finds that he is the hunted. Meanwhile, an aging Texas sheriff named Ed Tom Bell (Tommy Lee Jones) is after both the sportsman and Chigurh. The story is set in the early 1980s.

To some extent, this film is a character study of Sheriff Bell, an honest lawman who is wise, observant, grounded in reality, and has a long memory. “No Country For Old Men” is really his story. He doesn’t know quite what to make of the drug war that has crossed over from Mexico into Texas; it’s something new (for the 1980s); and it makes a land that has always been hostile to settlers even more hostile and dangerous.

The film’s premise is quite simple, and the story is straightforward with minimal twists. A lot of time and care are taken with procedural actions: loading a gun, dressing a bloody wound, constructing a pole to retrieve a package from an air vent, for example. Dialogue is minimal; there’s lots of silence.

The film’s color cinematography is quite good; there are lots of sweeping, wide-angle outdoor shots. I really enjoyed the geographic setting, with that whistling West Texas wind, the silence, and the stunning vistas. It’s a landscape that is starkly beautiful. Yet, despite its beauty and wilderness traits, it can quickly turn hostile and unforgiving for anyone unprepared for its hidden risks.

 

Source: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0477348/reviews

Black Magic always surprise the market with cameras that produce super good video quality.

In April 2018, BM release the brand-new Pocket Cinema Camera 4k, costing only US$ 1,300, the camera offers the a cinema quality in a camera no bigger than a DSLR, and comparing prices, this camera offer the best price and image quality on the market.

Here we can check how good it is:

In the last Sam`s class we had a talk with the supervisor of special fx of LUMA, an company that produce special fx for many marvel films, I got very surprise on how things in movies are fake, almost 90% of what you see on the screen are made by computers. Here you can see examples:

Recently I bought a Canon 5D MKI, released in 2005 the camera still can be compared with the most recent Canon, the 5D MKIV, and the image of the classic in good light condition is basically the same as the brand new MKIV.  It is surprising how a 13 years old camera can produce such good images, can you imagine a 13 years old cellphone or computer being compared with the brand new Iphones or Imacs ?

This week I have seen the whole serie of “The Haunting of Hill House, for me it was really surprising because they mix the present and the past in a way that you can`t understand how easily they transit between both without make you loose the flow.
They had one very special episode  with a 17 minutes scene, with no cuts, it mean 18 pages of script for 1 scene. I loved it.

More details at: https://goo.gl/By4cuS

 

Recently I was curious about how famous films were made, and I found this amazing website with many famous films behind the scenes

https://www.boredpanda.com/behind-the-scenes-from-famous-movies/?utm_source=google&utm_medium=organic&utm_campaign=organic

This semester we had lighting class.
Last class we had to reproduce the light of a scene from a famous film, this exercise is amazing to help us understand how they light a scene, what type of lights and its directions, how to shape the light.
My group had to reproduce a scene from “No Country For Old Man”, I am really happy with the result, I have learned a lot.

 

This is the scene we had to reproduce

Our lighting plan after analyse the scene

Our results

Today I am going to talk about we a lighting and camera workshop, where Darcy teach us all the “secrets” to set up an interview, it was great for me, I learned a lot on how to set up light correctly, how to position the person in front of a camera and for where the person should look at, we had the chance to play with different light set ups. This class helped me a lot on the assembling of my corporate video because I applied all the knowledge in the real video.