Finally have my lights back so the next video will be back to a regular setup and not me fighting the sun (and the yellow-ish reflection of light in my studio space) 😌 Link of the week: www.perkins.org.au/honeybee-venom-kills-breast-cancer-cells/

This is super interesting! I had no idea of all these technical aspects, thank you for sharing and love your work!!

@flickcine

3 жыл бұрын

Hachiku ❤️❤️❤️❤️

This was great! I would love more videos like this (production of music videos). Super interesting and really inspiring (on another note, I love experimental cinema, so maybe that's why I really like this video).

Only just come across your channel recently and it has just given me so much more clarity! As starting off in the industry having only done a few jobs your videos have helped a lot!! Please keep up the good work and look forward to the next!!! P.S. Saw your camera kit bag vid and love the Doctor Who reference!! At the moment the man who filmed most of the David Tennant and Matt Smiths episodes is my mentor for a while which is so flipping awesome lol! 😃😃😃😃

@flickcine

3 жыл бұрын

Oh that is so cool! Thanks for watching ☺️

Finally checked out the other music videos. Amazing visual effects by both you and the stylist! Maybe I am biased in a way to think, Hachiku is so young and so beautiful that she can't possibly have an expressive and intense stage presence like June. Not to mention Elisabeth! So between the recent links I prefer Meryl. Music and person shine in the closeup and in this absurd retro office setting. Overall great visual elements within the others. The tea with those artful colours - just gorgeous in style, setting and timing! Also admire how you used flair imperfections which show the straight aperture with few blades, brilliant! Probably something that you can't influence - for my old-fashioned taste the music feels terrible out of the computer. Guitars as visual elements, unrelated to the music I hear. I spent some time teaching kids some basic musical skills on acoustic guitars and drums. Part of the fun is how they learn to relate to the haptic of the instruments and the variations of sounds they have in their fingertips. That's an element totally missing in the prevalent style. Obviously you relate well in your surreal settings and the out of worldly cineastic style. Is that just our 21. century?

Thanks I love behind the scenes stuff!

Love your work Felicia! We had so many hurdles to overcome but we put our heads together and came up with pretty damn clever creative solutions. Such a fun shoot ❤️

@flickcine

3 жыл бұрын

Absolutely! ☺️❤️

🔥 Totally agree! Having a clear vision alone is half the battle. I like the lighting on your A roll setup, is it window light?

@flickcine

3 жыл бұрын

Clear vision is so helpful hey! Yeah! I just have the window open. It gets really good light but there's a heap of greenery outside so that in conjunction with the cream coloured walls makes for a yellow-ish look despite it being white balanced. 🤷‍♀️ I would try fix it and have tried in the past but my laptop is not having a good time and finds it hard enough to finish a simple edit. Ah well!

Super interesting! Until you mentioned pro-mist filters, I totally didn't think about them despite "in camera effects" and that awful/amazing "early psychedelic films" reference in the director's notes. I'm surprised you didn't use more/crazier filters - if you were to do this over, would you have gone with different filters? If you had RGB lights (Arri Skypanels?) would you have preferred them? How might you have used them? (Having watched the video again after seeing your BTS, I think the "waving" red gel giving a "reflecting off water" effect was killer!) I still completely don't understand the video relative to the song, but that's one of the great things about music videos!

@flickcine

3 жыл бұрын

If I were to do this over I would have definitely used RGB lights. Especially now that I own an RGB light. Would have been perfect for this instead of using gels. It was also a budget thing too as this one was a small budget to work with. Would have used them to replace the foreground lighting. Back was always red due to the fabric so that would have been fine.

Another awesome music video, good that you post this making of! Interesting to compare the very different storytelling approaches of Meander and this work. The video of Meander is magic! However this experimental stuff suits you well and the way the acting, video and the stylist's work go together with the music is outstanding! You use zoom here as opposed to the primes you got for Sony or the beautiful old Canon glass in Meander. It would be cool to know about those decisions, possibly in another video. If I am getting the math right, with the crop factors you did not go really wide, not even with the 17mm (?) in Meander - compared to angles people are used to in photography and even more on smartphones, actioncams and the likes. It never feels like you missed some extreme views / perspectives. That's another point I would like to learn about in future posts!

@flickcine

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks! Yeah zooms this time simply for budget really. But those sigmas are really workable and because they're so clean and sharp you can throw filters in front to control what you want. We also didn't go very wide at all. Can't remember exactly what focal length but I know for a fact we didn't use 18mm until the "twister" scene with the band. ☺️

@maxdmachy

3 жыл бұрын

@@flickcine no worries about zooms! When Wim Wenders assisted Michelangelo Anotioni's in his latest film "Al di là delle nuvole" , Wenders was most astonished about the old master's use of zooms - something he had never considered for his own work. As you often mention, getting the job done smoothly is crucial. About the focal lengths, did the longer zoom get much work?

@flickcine

3 жыл бұрын

@@maxdmachy a handful of shots however it's not the best lens for video because it breaths a lot. ☺️

You showed scenes from an earlier Hachiku video, where did you find a lens with such abysmal chromatic aberration? :'D Or rather how did you achieve this effect? If it was practical, can you adjust how strong the aberrations are?

@flickcine

3 жыл бұрын

😂 that was a post effect. But for that shoot we also used a very heavy white promist.