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- Back from a shoot in L.A., Griffin teases a few clips from his Sriracha documentary, and shares the equipment he shoots with. Plus, the top 3 cameras at film festivals, and an Iron Man 3 video contest!
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Back from a productive shoot in L.A., Griffin teases footage from his Sriracha documentary, and shows you the filmmaking equipment he travels with!
wow that's a cool camera
cool!
Anita Judicaëlle hot!
You did not use lavalier? How close do you need to be to the subject to use a directional microphone instead, and get good audio?
I thought you did use the GoPro! Didn't somebody else put it on the product belt?
Hi Griffin! Great to see you so excited about your Sriracha project.
I think you are creating your game changer. Good work!
Thank you for how much you contribute to fellow filmmakers and the internet in general.
Wow blast from the past. Cool to see you in the middle of making your sriracha film. I’ve been learning a lot from you and hope to finally have everything click and start incorporating it into my own videos
Great question. That would definitely lower the exposure, but shortening the shutter speed also removes natural-looking motion blur, creating a stutter between frames. That's why the general rule of thumb is shutter that's half the framerate. (24 fps = 1/50s, 30fps = 1/60s)
You could also close the aperture, but that increases your depth of field. That's why ISO exists, so you can change exposure while keeping aperture and shutter constant, but when you run out of ISO to change, you need an ND.
The audio files are in order, so with only 12 interviews, it's not too hard to figure out which ones match up. I listen to each for a second to verify before starting the synchronization. I also import them into FCPX at the end of each day, so it's easy to keep them organized.
Check out SrirachaFilm on Facebook-the link is there, plus lots of other stuff!
I'm glad I could help, and that's awesome that you're working on a summer film!
good info. A while back I flew from NJ to SFO for a doco interview series. Air Tran, I had all my clothes camera, lav, cables shoved in the carry on. I followed the rules and then sat there and watched other passengers come on with bags so large they could have carried a dead body or two. I borrowed lights and tripod when I got to town, that saved a lot (as well as staying at a former colleagues home.).
Great Video! Really helpful for someone like me trying to get started making docs.
I only have that and the Panasonic Leica 25mm, so I need the 14-140 anytime I need to zoom at ALL. Its definitely nice to have.
I"m excited to see that I have a very similar set of equipment. Btw, you can find the 14-140mm used for about $500 on Amazon.
Thanks for the video!
So just before classes let out, i really wanted to do a summer project. Conveniently enough, i wanted to make a documentary. These episodes started coming out right when i made the decision. While my plans are much more low budget, i feel like these will help out a lot! :D Thanks, Griffin!
Perhaps I'll do that in an upcoming episode. In the mean time, or if I don't get the opportunity, here's the workflow.
1) I pop in the SD card, attach the 1TB hard drive.
2) The SD card has three folders-I copy all of them to a folder on the 1TB hard drive. That's my first backup, original directory structure intact.
3) I disconnect the hard drive and launch FCPX. Using the import window, I import all the SD card clips into FCPX. This copies them to the internal hard drive.
First I'll make it available to Kickstarter backers online. (I'm hoping to launch the Kickstarter Sunday, June 16.) Then, film festivals in the spring, and then I'd love to distribute it broadly, perhaps through CZcams, iTunes, Netflix-we'll see what happens!
Hey, I totally recommend a release form iPad app. I got one recently for some shoots. It's super useful and you can take the photo and shoot em off as PDFs!
Yeah, this is dramatically different (worse) audio!
It's a heavy backpack, especially with a laptop in it, but it's much easier to lug around than a shoulder-strap camera bag. If I leave a few unnecessary items at the hotel, it's no problem wearing the backpack while shooting. So it's a super mobile setup.
I put the text in the video description.
Hey Thanks for the release forms!
Great tips, good luck on your doc!
For some reason lately when I post a video to CZcams there seems to be some pixelation even though in my post production software it's clear as a bell. I must have changed my export default settings by accident but cannot figure out what to change it back to. Any ideas?
If your looking for cheap portable film lights for interviews there is CN-600 LEDs that run 250-350$ depending on who is distributing them.
Used one along side two of my University's more expensive Litepanel LEDs when filming interviews at a convention, and got no noticeable difference besides slightly more spill on the Litepanels. I was also able to fit all 3 into one Litepanel case with slight rearrangement.
Great show! You mention that you make back-ups of your files in the cloud. Which service do you use?
Hope you keep on doing longer Indy News on Mondays, I really enjoyed the 15 min!
I just finish yesterday filming the interviews and B-Roll for a short 5min Documentary for a local film festival. I ended up using 2 5D MII with 50mm 1.2 and 100mm 2.8 primes, slider, tripod, and lights. Also Tascam DR-100 and Rode NTG-1 mic and another Tascam portable recorder with a tram lav. Woke up at 4am to get a timelapse on the sunrise over NYC (It's in my channel)
That's a good guideline, but sometimes it's worth breaking if you want a different look, or if you need it just a little darker. You can close your aperture, but that will make more of the frame in focus. It's another tradeoff that you may or may not be willing to deal with.
An ND filter is certainly not a must-have piece of gear, but it makes my life easier.
Hi Griffin, what did you use to do your white balance? White/Grey card? Of did you rely on a camera setting? Look awesome, so I'm curious? Cheers 🤠🎥👍
Griffin, it may seem simple but I think it would be really helpful for a lot of us if you could film the work-flow from the moment you've finsihed recording, then taking the SD card and copying it to your TB hard drive and then importing the files into final cut. I'd just like to see the steps you take after after the red light goes off (: Some of that b-roll looks awesome btw, I'm really excited for this documentary!
How do you find the audio files from the h4n to match up with the video in post production? Do you just listen to each audio file and rename the audio file to the take number or person you interviewed, or saying the take number during the interview? Thanks!
The GH3 has a color profile called natural, which is what I'm shooting with.
Great video But I have a question, If you are already on your lowest ISO and F-stop and it still too bright, why don't increase the shutter speed to make it darker instead of a ND filter?
Do you lose something doing this?
Thanks
Would love to see a demo of you setting up that DIY mic onto your shoulder rig.
Hi Griffin. How is the Panasonic 12-35mm f2.8 for pulling focus manually? Is the focus ring "mechanical" like most canon lenses, or is it all electrical like the Panasonic 14-140mm?
I'm new to filming documentaries. do you have a list of equipment for a person like me?
Whoa, today, the Sriracha doc also landed on Huffington Post!
is there a reason you went with the panasonic 12-35mm lens over something like the tamron 17-50mm 2.8? for $250 and a 25 dollar adapter you can get a 17-50mm 2.8 lens that doesnt lose focus or aperture when zooming. Does the panny lens look better?
No problem. I hope that helps!
I just heard about it-gotta check it out!
Hi Griffin, would u tell us what cloudservice you use? thx =)
Incredible how gh3 still looks good in 2019! :)
You talk about it a lot, but this example is the best I've seen, proving how important sound is!
Thanks for the look in the bag, Griffin! is it not tiresome lugging around such a big backpack? How heavy is it? Thanks, again!
Sounds like a bitrate issue, that your videos are getting super compressed. Look for a setting to increase the quality, or manually raise the bitrate. This video is H.264-compressed at 3Mbps. For higher quality, I sometimes go to 5Mbps or 8Mbps. I consider 15Mbps broadcast quality, but that's too big and unnecessary for web video.
What are those Video 8 tapes in background?
Thanks for you videos, they're very helpful. I'm a still photographer that is getting into videography, in particular, I'm shooting live music. I was considering the Reflex LR10 (I have a D800 and I thought the bigger shoulder rig might be better for the bigger camera plus it has a long handle that seems that it would work better for very low shots). Looks like a quality unit at a great price. Would you buy the Reflex again? Any other possibilities that I should consider?
So do you think that we should never go higher than the double of the FPS that we are recording?
I mean if I'm shooting 60 FPS should never go higher than 120 as shutter speed?
What if I increase the F-stop instead of using a nd filter?
Thanks for the reply!
What do you use to back up in the cloud. Thanks for this.
Super time lapse at 10.47 wooo!
Hey Griffin, have you tried using the Easy Release app for the iPad? I have been using it for my release forms, and it's quite handy. It even makes you take a picture of the person signing the form, then it sends a PDF copy both to your and their emails. I use it for all of my Talent and Location releases.
Woo, rocking the Azdem SGM 1X! Also, how effective was the deadcat with wind noise?
what do you mean it only goes to 35mm? It is a 2x crop. you should have noted that the image would be magnified by 2x with that lens and camera due to the tiny sensor.
Good luck, Griffin! I think an actual Indy Mogul documentary would be awesome someday. Make the free upload to CZcams your last step. You deserve to get compensation for all your hard work.
Hello Griffen, I may be going to do a small doc myself. I was wondering how do you do that changing frame effect. NooB, lol and thx.
I use a cloud backup service called CrashPlan.
Such a relief at 3:00 !
congrats on your project
What quick release plate is that???
That DIY shotgun Mic holder is a really great hacks, even better that normal camera shoe
I really wish they could of put some type of mini lockable audio connector on the GH3 / GH2. How hard would it of been to have a mini jack with a screw in connector. I've heard some folks hot gluing a right angle connector on the outside of a GH2. I had planned to open the GH2 up and solder a wire but the connector looks somewhat unaccessible. I ran a presonus firebox on batteries with my high end boom mic Audio technica 4073 into GH2 and it sounded great - a portable XLR field mixer for $200!
Do you know how the GH2 or GH3 matches up as a film camera for filmmakers? Thanks.
is there a lens for a canon 600d that is similar to griffins lens
Can you do a second kickstarter so i can get the documentary because i missed it when i was at camp.
Nice mod on that shoulder mount! P.S. The return of the cone of silence!!!
This video was painful to listen to! Love you guys! Can't wait for the doc!
I took a journalism class so I suggest taking a journalism class to sort of help out with that, but what I can tell you is use questions that relate to facts about people their background and also use "est" questions which means using question which include using "est" so in other words questions like what's your greatest accomplishment? What's your biggest fear? What's been your biggest project? What's been your hardest project? Also try to avoid using first person words such as I
Wait... is the light in your room OFF? Why are you ONLY using your DIY light and nat sunlight?
i live in Anaheim California any way I can work on a project with you
Griffin! How did you get such a flat image out of the camera??
what tripod do you use?
What tripod did you use?
Great video. 2 thumbs up.
Link???
Hey Griffin, which cloud are you using for storing bing data? Greets from Germany
Griffin, how do you plan on distributing this? Will it be available online? Netflix? Amazon?
Hello Griffin i want to thank you for everyting all!, you are awsome, y would really like to meet you some day. Sorry for my poor english, im from Mexico!
PD. Im so excited por the doc! :D
Why would anybody give this video a thumbs down? Some people are born losers.
I use a sony a65, great but try and get an external recorder
I was only there for an hour. I'm sorry that my business trips don't offer much free time to meet up!
How do you ask questions in your documentary?? Because many people just ask questions and then there silence so actually my question is how do you get a fluid interview? I'm making my own documentary next week about magnetic radiation. :)
For the IRON MAN contest, can we use music from the iron man trailer or what? i felt the specs were unclear
I'd love to hear about your workflow for the doc. How you log the footage, how you select the keywords and smart folders, I assume your going to use FCPx :). Some folks have done some really big projects on FCPx and for organizing footage it rocks. Will you use multiple events, how many clips do you have, markers, keywords etc. Even my little mac mini can handle 1000 clips 10 hours. Have you looked at Lumberjack and other logging tools?
ik this is a year late hahah but you should of put your go pro on a sriracha bottle in the factory when they where moving. that would be a killer shot
That's why I gravitate towards GH cameras!
Hey. Loved the doc! You say in this video that you never got to use the GoPro? I think i remember a shot clip from the fatory where a camara is placed on a conveyor. It had that fish eye look? Hmm. Maybe im wrong. Anyhow great work.
Pete
You should probably avoid copyrighted music if possible.
I did miss the last week show!
What was keeping you from cloud storage while you were away shooting?
I saw a Sriracha shirt at my friends shop yesterday! apparently theres a chinese shop that sells it im going to go try it out!
you said a DIY keno?
Hotel internet is so slow. Even now that I'm home, it's taking three days to back up all the data. Video files are big.
Your are awesome!
I'm not a perfect interviewer, but generally stay away from yes/no questions, because timid interviewees will resort to one-word answers. I start out with easy (or throwaway) questions, because they may not get comfortable and act natural until question 3 or 4. (Sometimes I revisit a question at the end, to get a better answer.)
Ditch this show? No way! If I start getting into festivals, you all are coming with me! (Virtually, through this show, of course.)
I needed an ND filter today in Boston :P Need to pick one up haha
Thank you for taking the time to reply
I'm using a service called CrashPlan.
What bag did you use?
He, because of the equipment used, more than likely used a Lowepro Fastpack 350.
One more thing, I'm a posting Demond today ... did you like the variable ND filter, some of the reviews on Amazon said it was crap. Just curious if it added any strange color shift but perhaps you've not viewed the footage :( Ok, I swear I'm done and well do on the documentary mate, look forward to hearing all about it in these videos.
I see you sprung for the $1000 lens. I remember an episode a while back where you said you bought a 35-105 canon FD lens. You don't use it anymore? Don't like it? I'm asking because I'm going to buy one because of your previous advice.
never mind. your video just answered my question. if you have any new info. please respond.
Woah, got used to the onboard mic, now the shotgun sounds so weird!
You can put the gopro on the assembly line