*New Clip*
GmElliott
wrote on 6/24/2005, 4:51 AM
Comments
farss
wrote on 6/24/2005, 5:34 AM
Interesting choice of file name, I was kind of expecting something else. But seriously, it's as good as it gets for the subject, I just hope you're charging enough to cover the amount of time that obviously went in to it
Grazie
wrote on 6/24/2005, 7:38 AM
.. oh my, Mr Elliott . . . spectacular . . . . and I'm speechless . .
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Jose M. Estrada
wrote on 6/25/2005, 8:42 AM
How can you achive those results? You are an inspiration to me!.
Dan Sherman
wrote on 6/25/2005, 9:35 AM
Well GM.
That was just beautiful.
If I ever get married again,----and I may have the opportunity if I stay in the video biz.
You're hired!
Seriously,---inspiring.
It's all you'll really need for a demo reel.
I'm with farss,---hike up those prices.
Yer high end, pardner!
Soak the rich!
That was just beautiful.
If I ever get married again,----and I may have the opportunity if I stay in the video biz.
You're hired!
Seriously,---inspiring.
It's all you'll really need for a demo reel.
I'm with farss,---hike up those prices.
Yer high end, pardner!
Soak the rich!
RalphM
wrote on 6/25/2005, 10:17 AM
Beautiful as usual, and I felt the music was especially appropriate.
cfolsom
wrote on 6/25/2005, 3:12 PM
Super job, I really loved the transistions form scene to scene. Good job!
Chris
Chris
CTJ
wrote on 6/28/2005, 1:11 PM
link will not work...ulr not found
fishbelt
wrote on 6/28/2005, 9:54 PM
can not go to link either?
busterkeaton
wrote on 6/28/2005, 10:12 PM
Very nice. When did you capture the time-lapse of the clouds?
I like how you set up your effects in shooting. Specifically, shooting when you know you are going to wipe or concealing and then revealing the backlight to get a great light-rays effects. Your style shows how to shoot to reveal the power within today's NLEs.
I like how you set up your effects in shooting. Specifically, shooting when you know you are going to wipe or concealing and then revealing the backlight to get a great light-rays effects. Your style shows how to shoot to reveal the power within today's NLEs.
mjroddy
wrote on 6/28/2005, 10:13 PM
Link worked for me at 10pm PST.
Man... I'd LOVE to be there on a shoot with you. You get some great shots (and, of course, your editing is supurb)! I find it tough to imagine your shoots; "Ok, it's your wedding day, I know... but just hold that pose for me.... now I'm going to shoot your back, don't look at the camera!" You have, not only an amazing artistic eye that it would take me YEARS to develope, you also have guts and probably a lot of compassion to get the shots you get.
Supurb job - as always.
Man... I'd LOVE to be there on a shoot with you. You get some great shots (and, of course, your editing is supurb)! I find it tough to imagine your shoots; "Ok, it's your wedding day, I know... but just hold that pose for me.... now I'm going to shoot your back, don't look at the camera!" You have, not only an amazing artistic eye that it would take me YEARS to develope, you also have guts and probably a lot of compassion to get the shots you get.
Supurb job - as always.
GaryKleiner
wrote on 6/28/2005, 11:19 PM
Glen,
You have some very good work there. I especially like the wipe using the pier post as you transition to the interiors.
One other comment though: Just about every single shot has camera movement which you are using to define the style of the piece. The viewer's eye does need to rest once in a while. Put in a few static shots to avoid sea sickness.
Regards,
Gary
You have some very good work there. I especially like the wipe using the pier post as you transition to the interiors.
One other comment though: Just about every single shot has camera movement which you are using to define the style of the piece. The viewer's eye does need to rest once in a while. Put in a few static shots to avoid sea sickness.
Regards,
Gary
busterkeaton
wrote on 6/28/2005, 11:53 PM
Gary,
That wipe is the one I had in mind when I talked earlier. He's not struggling to capture a shot, he is planning and executing.
That wipe is the one I had in mind when I talked earlier. He's not struggling to capture a shot, he is planning and executing.
RichR
wrote on 6/29/2005, 5:46 AM
Would you share your settings for the soft/glowing look that you have here?
cervama
wrote on 6/29/2005, 11:30 AM
GM Elliott, can you put that on quicktime, my player is not working with the codec. Thank you.
jetdv
wrote on 6/29/2005, 12:48 PM
Put it on your Vegas timeline and hit play.
Serena
wrote on 6/29/2005, 9:33 PM
Excellent technical work. I presume from the name of the clip that it's an "above the title" introduction, and for that it's most apt.
Should this be representative of the main body and I were to offer any criticism, it would be along the lines that I find the style rather impersonal (for the client). Obviously as a producer this style is very personal to you and instantly recognisable, but perhaps takes precedence over the people involved, and it's the people who are central to the exercise.
However I expect your clients like what they see and love what they get, so my potential criticism can be set aside!
Serena
Should this be representative of the main body and I were to offer any criticism, it would be along the lines that I find the style rather impersonal (for the client). Obviously as a producer this style is very personal to you and instantly recognisable, but perhaps takes precedence over the people involved, and it's the people who are central to the exercise.
However I expect your clients like what they see and love what they get, so my potential criticism can be set aside!
Serena
GmElliott
wrote on 7/7/2005, 10:45 AM
Well GM.
Thank you kindly. My pricing is still farily low compared to the pricing of some of my videographer peers in this market. Many of them state I should raise them. I'm currently only booking via word of mouth and have yet to invest in any formal means of marketing. My pricing will have to be adjusted once I put out the overhead for marketing.
Thank you kindly. My pricing is still farily low compared to the pricing of some of my videographer peers in this market. Many of them state I should raise them. I'm currently only booking via word of mouth and have yet to invest in any formal means of marketing. My pricing will have to be adjusted once I put out the overhead for marketing.
GmElliott
wrote on 7/7/2005, 10:48 AM
Very nice. When did you capture the time-lapse of the clouds?
The shot of the clouds was aquired by my assistant during the photosession in the church following the recessional.
The shot of the clouds was aquired by my assistant during the photosession in the church following the recessional.
GmElliott
wrote on 7/7/2005, 10:51 AM
Link worked for me at 10pm PST.
Thank you for the kind words. As I described above- I don't always have a "plan"...I try to shoot enough angle, directions, and compositions that will give me the most lattitude in post. I suppose I become increasingly subconcience of it while shooting- but I don't map out every transitional movement, etc- ahead of time. I lay all my footage out on the timeline like a kid dumping blocks on the floor. It's then when I start splicing, sliding, and matching footage up. I never touch the trimmer. All work is done on the timeline.
Thank you for the kind words. As I described above- I don't always have a "plan"...I try to shoot enough angle, directions, and compositions that will give me the most lattitude in post. I suppose I become increasingly subconcience of it while shooting- but I don't map out every transitional movement, etc- ahead of time. I lay all my footage out on the timeline like a kid dumping blocks on the floor. It's then when I start splicing, sliding, and matching footage up. I never touch the trimmer. All work is done on the timeline.
GmElliott
wrote on 7/7/2005, 10:56 AM
Glen,
Thanks Gary. Yeah I tend to use movement an aweful lot. I lean towards a kinetic style I suppose. Static shots don't do much for me- oftentimes I'll ad a subtle pan/crop twist-zoom to make even the static shots crawl a bit.
Thanks Gary. Yeah I tend to use movement an aweful lot. I lean towards a kinetic style I suppose. Static shots don't do much for me- oftentimes I'll ad a subtle pan/crop twist-zoom to make even the static shots crawl a bit.
GmElliott
wrote on 7/7/2005, 10:58 AM
Would you share your settings for the soft/glowing look that you have here?
I've described it on several occasions here- but the short of it is a mix of the Levels, Color Correction, and Glow. I don't use a generic setting for the effects- each clip is different and I use the Histogram to guide me when making changes.
I've described it on several occasions here- but the short of it is a mix of the Levels, Color Correction, and Glow. I don't use a generic setting for the effects- each clip is different and I use the Histogram to guide me when making changes.
GmElliott
wrote on 7/7/2005, 11:07 AM
Excellent technical work. I presume from the name of the clip that it's an "above the title" introduction, and for that it's most apt.
Serena, thank you for the honest feedback. Much appreciated. I understand what you mean. I'll often use natural audio, and voice overs to add more of a personal feel to the piece. This shoot in particular I was unable to make use of the VO's I recorded- mainly because the groom didn't feel comfortable when recording it- and it was conveyed in the recording. I'll ask couples ahead of time if they feel comfortable doing a quick voice over for me. Usually prompted by open ended questions to help get them started ...either giving a message to the other, or describing what attributes they love in their soon to be spouse. Sometimes couples are comfortable and give some really compelling VO's. Other times they agree to do it and one or the other either isn't as profound in their wording or a bit nervous. For this reason I'll often offer the choice to take a voice recording device in another room to record it in private.
Serena, thank you for the honest feedback. Much appreciated. I understand what you mean. I'll often use natural audio, and voice overs to add more of a personal feel to the piece. This shoot in particular I was unable to make use of the VO's I recorded- mainly because the groom didn't feel comfortable when recording it- and it was conveyed in the recording. I'll ask couples ahead of time if they feel comfortable doing a quick voice over for me. Usually prompted by open ended questions to help get them started ...either giving a message to the other, or describing what attributes they love in their soon to be spouse. Sometimes couples are comfortable and give some really compelling VO's. Other times they agree to do it and one or the other either isn't as profound in their wording or a bit nervous. For this reason I'll often offer the choice to take a voice recording device in another room to record it in private.
Serena
wrote on 7/8/2005, 7:15 PM
Glen,
That you're busy with work is an excellent counter to people who would do things differently and it would be a much less interesting place if everyone had the same taste and same way of doing things.
I do very little wedding work. Only for relatives. One I did nearly 12 months ago I used your style for the "above the title" opening - straight pinch and a wonderful opening. In contrast to your clients they wanted all of the speeches, in their entirety! I've seldom sat through a speech that I wanted repeated, so I wasn't enthusiatic. But I did it with 2 cameras and cut-aways and they liked it. I put in chapter markers so they can skip through.
Looking back on weddings, most people (my sample) find they're more interested in the friends that attended than in themselves. So as well as the central figures I work to get everybody (not to camera), with live sound where that is useable, interesting and characteristic. But apart from the ceremony generally the live sound can only be used for atmosphere and music has to carry the work. I avoid the VO because I think it intrudes on the "reality" of the day.
It was your mention of "real" that has had me pondering. My first response to your reply was to say "that's a good answer, and a good way to close the thread". But "real" has had me going, just as it did you.
There is a modern tendency (seen more than I like at film festivals) to using handheld DV cams in a somewhat energic manner. But when I've deplored this style I've had people argue against me on the grounds that this is more "real". That it conveys truth; to me, it attracts my attention to the process and, in some cases, causes me to close my eyes until it stops. However, apparently, in this case smooth presentation indicates artifice and manipulation.
Now your style with smoothly moving camera and excellent control of tones gives a great subjective sense of shape and of space. Using expanded time lets people feel that space and could this be the "real" your clients perceive? It's an impression of "being there". Additionally, as I remember it, the wedding day goes in a romantically hazy (if somewhat frantic) way, and that reality your style captures beautifully (sans 'frantic').
Nice work much to be admired. It is clear that you are well aware of such issues as I raised and have developed a way of working that is very successful.
Serena
That you're busy with work is an excellent counter to people who would do things differently and it would be a much less interesting place if everyone had the same taste and same way of doing things.
I do very little wedding work. Only for relatives. One I did nearly 12 months ago I used your style for the "above the title" opening - straight pinch and a wonderful opening. In contrast to your clients they wanted all of the speeches, in their entirety! I've seldom sat through a speech that I wanted repeated, so I wasn't enthusiatic. But I did it with 2 cameras and cut-aways and they liked it. I put in chapter markers so they can skip through.
Looking back on weddings, most people (my sample) find they're more interested in the friends that attended than in themselves. So as well as the central figures I work to get everybody (not to camera), with live sound where that is useable, interesting and characteristic. But apart from the ceremony generally the live sound can only be used for atmosphere and music has to carry the work. I avoid the VO because I think it intrudes on the "reality" of the day.
It was your mention of "real" that has had me pondering. My first response to your reply was to say "that's a good answer, and a good way to close the thread". But "real" has had me going, just as it did you.
There is a modern tendency (seen more than I like at film festivals) to using handheld DV cams in a somewhat energic manner. But when I've deplored this style I've had people argue against me on the grounds that this is more "real". That it conveys truth; to me, it attracts my attention to the process and, in some cases, causes me to close my eyes until it stops. However, apparently, in this case smooth presentation indicates artifice and manipulation.
Now your style with smoothly moving camera and excellent control of tones gives a great subjective sense of shape and of space. Using expanded time lets people feel that space and could this be the "real" your clients perceive? It's an impression of "being there". Additionally, as I remember it, the wedding day goes in a romantically hazy (if somewhat frantic) way, and that reality your style captures beautifully (sans 'frantic').
Nice work much to be admired. It is clear that you are well aware of such issues as I raised and have developed a way of working that is very successful.
Serena