How I Filmed This Cinematic Interview - Cinematography Breakdown
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 30 พ.ค. 2024
- Here's a full breakdown on how I shot this cinematic Interview for my recent short documentary
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00:00 Introduction
00:27 The location
02:52 Camera department
04:58 Audio
07:05 Lighting
10:35 Color grading - ภาพยนตร์และแอนิเมชัน
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The Plugin is called Crumple Pop Echo Remover AI ;)
Do you know of anything that doesn’t require a subscription or is less expensive, for those of us that only need it occasionally?
@@RyanNesbitt adobe podcast is free
Hey! Can you create a LUT pack for Zlog (Zcam) users ?
Don't know if anybody's already said this, but tips from a sound mixer here... you can angle the mic toward the mouth for better clarity and higher S/N (signal to noise ratio). In this particular scenario where you don't have any wind to fight, you can also remove that foam windscreen to get the mic that much closer, again increasing your S/N and reducing how much work the reverb reduction plugin is doing. Use of sound absorbing blankets everywhere out of frame will also help dramatically change the amount of reverb captured. It sounded fine, by the way, just suggesting ways to improve it further!
Thanks a lot to the suggestions. I actually angle the mic slightly away from the mouth on purpose to not pick up mouth noises. Same goes for the windshield indoors. I found it reduced pop and hissing sounds. Thoughts on this?
As for the sound blankets. The interview was so wide that I felt it wouldn’t have done anything
I can't get over the colour grade of this video - it is the definition of "buttery smooth" Let's go DC!!
Thank you. Did you see I just uploaded a cooor grading breakdown of this shoot too?
@@damiencooper Yes sir, I have indeed!! Great work man!
I really love the details you went into. also, the way it didn't come across too techy but I still got the information I needed to be able to try it myself. really well done, can't wait to see more like this
Absolutely brilliant, stunning set up!
THIS. theses are how breakdowns are supposed to be. i literally have no open questions about the shoot. excellenr work Damien!
Insane. By far the best interview setting I've seen so far.
Fantastic Damien! Thank you!
awesome video Damien. thanks for the dope content as always
Amazing breakdown, thanks Damian!!
Thanks for this detailed overview. Exterior window backgrounds have become my nemesis. Despite 4-5 stops of ND I just still have trouble getting the ratio of light between background and subject that I find pleasing. This was really helpful.
Everything about this video is excellent; instantly subscribed!
Bravo, great cinematic work and very sharp and concise comments, wonderful 👌👏👏👏
Thanks for this clear breakdown!
Great video！ Glad to see SYNCO D1 microphone in use of such a useful tutorial
Amazing breakdown bro!
Awesome! Really interesting and very well made!
Very interesting! The overall set up in the room is very effective and you explained it well. And it's also interesting to see how the dark-light-dark scheme is carried over from the interview to your youtube head shot.
the checker pattern is one of the most underrated lighting techniques to create depth and volume in any scene. I try to utilise it as much as I can
Looks really nice, great work
Thank you for this!!!
great job!
Awesome man
This was awesome.
Enjoy your content great stuff
Great Video!
Looks great 👍🏻
AWESOME!!!!
Looks good!
Bravo !!!!
Great breakdown dude! Love the earth tones of the shot 🤘🏻
thanks! Me too. I was afraid it would be to monotone but the window light gave it enough contrast
@@damiencooper absolutely! Great end result
I watched the actual short film “Cutting Edge” after watching the behind the scene on how you shot the interview sequence, and it is a great documentary!!!
This looks STUNNING! Amazing breakdown. How do you handle multiple light temperatures when shooting with natural light, practicals, and your own lighting? Did you use a color meter or did you set all of your lighting to daylight to match the window? Thank you!
Really helpful 👍🏻
Informative ❤️😊
Nice work
Great! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
Great 👏
Hi Damien, a really very instructive video that answers all my questions! Thank you so much! Looking forward to a next BTC video.
Glad it was helpful!
Great...I learnt some ideal. Thank you
Keep going!
Damien, this was so good. Your decision to talk about every aspect of the interview setup is so appreciated. I'm curious about the double diffusion. How does moving that second diffusion layer further away affect the light ... and how did you settle on the two-foot gap we see here?
appreciate it. My plan is to do a lot more like these in the future.
The frame was moved as close to the subject as possible without being in the frame. The Light itself was moved away from the cloth so that it covered the entire frame. If it would have been closer (like touching the frame) there would've been no benefit to using it over the parabolic softbox
Great, well explained ....
thank you
Amazing job! I appreciate the behind the scenes. Keep it up!
thanks. Really glad this video is well received
@Damien Cooper I'm constantly tweeking my interview set up with clients so it's nice to see the perspective from other filmmakers.
@@JaredHoyman I honestly think shooting interviews is one of the most fun things in filmmaking :D
@@damiencooper I agree! I love the process and getting people to open up.
loved this break down part. I wanna see more on color profile and editing too. 😊
There will be a color grading video and a general making of too ;)
The location is half the battle! Great video.
it always is. This battle was def. won. So glad we reshot the entire interview beacuse of it
Damn good, Damien!
Looks great! For the wide, I think you could have given a touch more headroom but that's obviously subjective. Nice work!
Actor gets emotional, cries. Camera crew, oh wait, haze machine needs to be restarted. 🤣
Great breakdown! Did you use a light outside to get that nice light slash falling on the wall? Also, how do you keep the overall brightness of the room to not get too low and dramatic when you stop down? Thanks.
That 100mm Shot is Top Tier.
Hi, Damien nice job .
Better late than never. Danke!
haha, true
Love this thank you! Quick question what AI too do you use for removing echo?
haze interview! OMG!
Hardcore!
OK also Echo...
You are a brave guy!
Yes, very rockn roll of me :D
love the setup. by the way which ai tool did u use for removing the room echo? thanks
excellent class! thank you very much! Where can I find lavalier microphone accessories?
Love it thanks for the great video! Would love to know what the AI software you used for sound was!
Such a good video. glad I found you channel - just subscribed. Curious, where was the interviewer positioned?
Klasse! Da isses endlich! Schönes Ding 👍🏻 freue mich auf dein Colorgrading Input.
Das Deity interessiert mich.. werd ich mir auch mal zulegen.
Wo gibts den Diffuser-Frame? Mag das große Mopet!
besser spät als nie! :D
Ich hab es bei GAFPA Gear gekauft.. Aber beim linken hab ich es nirgends mehr in Europa gefunden
Thanks for the full breakdown! Incredible work! Curious which speed boosters you are using with the C70? Seems like something that could make a huge impact on being able to expose everything properly and I have never used one. Can’t wait to see more!
Thanks man!
I use the original Canon Speedboosters. But in terms of exposing it really shouldn't make a big difference. I just like the added flexibility of the lens choices that I have
@@damiencooper ok. That makes sense. I also love how the inside scene really matched the outdoor lighting without blowing out the window. I’ll be watching your C70 exposure video again as I have never used ND 6 indoors so I am obviously lacking lighting. Thanks for all you do in making these videos, they are always helpful and inspiring.
@@tbcmediaca just for reference.. the talking head of this video was filmed at 4 stops of ND. But I like to shoot almost everything wide open!
Very nice breakdown and excellent video.
But why these 90degree shots from the side?
Enjoyed your video ! Very interesting. Thanks.
I have an interview job coming up but only have one C70. I use some Fuji's for the other angles. 2 questions .....
Would you suggest I shoot in Log on all cameras, then colour grade? Fuji tend to be sharper and I am worried about getting a good overall look.
The other question, and I dont think I can...... Shoot in log on Card A and Rec 709 on card B (as backup) with the C70. Petty sure it cant be done.
Thank you for sharing your amzing work... I do no seem to find which AI tool your are using to remove the room echo! Thanks
A year later?! Who cares? It's very helpful and valuable information! 😌 thanks for making it, I needed it
Loved this! Great video. Can I ask what AI you used for her voice to eliminate the echo?
Definitely would like to know which AI you used to eliminate echo?
Gorgeous work! Thank you so much for this breakdown. What picture profile did you use on the cameras?
always shoot clog2/cine gamut. I have a full video about my settings on my channel too
Wow I’m surprised you could shoot at 1250 ISO in clog2 with what appears to be very little noise! Did you have to do a lot of extra denoising or was it just that clean? I’m currently shooting with Sony and if you don’t stick to their base ISOs in log shooting then it’s a noise nightmare lol
@@unbridledproductions2503 I can shoot up to 2k on this camera without any noice IF you expose correctly! I didn't have to do any denoising for any of the footage I used actually
hmm interesting... the hazing hahahaah! worth it! :D
I loved watching this. I have a few really small detail questions. (1) What are the clamps called that are holding the flag near the backlight @ 8:21 and the 5x6 diffusion frame @ 9:23? (2) What's the monitor on the stand called @ 3:35? What's the thinking behind why its on a stand and not on camera? (3) MAKE MORE OF THESE VIDEOS! THANK YOU
grip head, intellytech fast frame, Osee T7, I put one monitor on the stand so I had two of them close together so I could montior both at once
Brilliant tutorial and end result. It seemed like the lav mic had less echo, do you think that was the cause due to the boomed mic was aimed directly down towards the floor rather than at an angle towards a surface further away? Subscribed
Lav mics usually have less echo than shotgun mics. Especially longer shotgun mics which are ade for outdoors rather than indoors. That's why I said I wanted to use my shorter shotgun mic
@@damiencooper In my experience the omni directional lav mics that I use are hard to manipulate to avoid picking up reverb as it is omni directional. But using short shotguns as you did, I'm able to angle the mic away from the surfaces close to the mic and avoid most of the rooms reverb. Using short shotguns also helps avoiding phasing which larger shotguns have a tendency to pick up due to the longer shaft. And short ones also have a tendency to pick up less behind the mic. When I boom a directional shotgun and face it towards the floor it may pick up more reverb then my lav mics, but if I place the shotgun close and angle it towards a wall further away and in the direction of the person speaking, it gives me less reverb then my lav mic when I'm indoors.
Wow, amazing interview video AND breakdown video. Thank you for putting this together! Quick question, for settings on your A cam, you have 6 stops of ND and then your iso set at 1250. Couldn't you have shed some of that ND and been able to drop your iso for cleaner image? Not that your image didn't look clean, is there some advantage to adding ND AND bumping iso?
Thank you. Native iso and dynamic range. I explain this in my C70 exposure video
@@damiencooper Watched your exposure video, another great one! Thank you. Subbed
I will totally buy your course. When is it ready and what's the AI audio too
l you mentioned?
What AI editor did you use for the audio?
What was the AI software to clean up the audio?
Cheers!
Hi Damien, very good breakdown! thanks for this video. What tool did you use to remove the echo in the audio?
Thank you! I used crumple pop echo remover. It‘s for final cut
Come si chiama l'accessorio per mettere il lavalier sul reggiseno? Io alla fine ho usato l'attacco a ciondolo magnetico della Insta360
Bring on the questions for the full making of:
How to find those locations in Austria / Germany / Switzerland :)
what lavalier mic did you use for the job? I didn´t understand the mic model.
@@1bertoimagemaker Tentacle Track E.. I linked my review to it
@@damiencooper Damian what's the name of the echo denoiser plugin?
I guess @Humberto asked for the lav mic model on the
Track E. Sounded a bit muffled. Guess 70% of that is due to the hidden mic but could also be a lav which takes out a lot of the high end like sennheiser MKE. Great vid!
I agree with David Minard's comments about mic and room treatments. Saves a lot of time in post, and bad audio still doesn't sound right if the audio is reverberating on the shoot. I'd say it's better to get the audio right in the can in the first place, or think twice about shooting in the venue or doing something to fix this issue before you shoot. So much bad audio out there it's astonishing that some people still relegate this to an incidental afterthought or accept compromises justified by "fix it in post."
I would add that perhaps a proper dialog mic like a small diaphragm condenser hyper-cardiod might have been a better choice than a shotgun indoors because a true shotgun has a rear node that picks up the reverb from the ceiling. Check the polar pattern of your shotguns to confirm this characteristic.
I use an Audio Technica AT4053B on a boom pole for my interviews Zoom meetings, and it sounds fantastic. Worth every bit of the current $700 price. You've got a lot invested in the cameras, which most shooters do, but leave the audio to budget-oriented decisions. I would have done just the opposite. For interviews, I'd budget more for the audio than the video, although the picture looks gorgeous, especially with soft FX filters and the soft lighting, but i'd emphasize audio in the budget mix for gear so have pristine audio for unmatched intelligibility.
After all, the bulk of the information in a video interview is imparted by dialog, so isn't the clarity of the audio actually more important the video? Many sound pros do not use a shotgun indoors at all because of this reverb issue coming from the rear node.
I also agree with many of the comments that your video is one of the best at breaking down how and why you shoot your interviews. I'm just picking at the few points i thought might use some improvement to take your work to the next level.
I hope this was helpful and taken as constructive as it is intended.
Thanks for the long and very thoughtful comment. And I pretty much agree with everything.
I did mention I usually use a different mic which is a small hyper cardiod for these situations.
However, my personal problem is that audio isn’t my strongest suite. And by that I don’t necessarily mean the skill but I just don’t hear a difference. I have listened to plenty of samples comparing different mics in all kinds of situations and price ranges and I can barely tell a difference but I will put more thought into room treatment from now on.
The fact that a lot of people specifically commented about how good the audio was under the original documentary kinda confirms I’m not the only one not having the right ear for it. Which isn’t really an excuse or a justification. Just found it interesting
It looks like a shotgun on the boom, if so, not a mic best suited for interiors with poor acoustics. The mic is pointing straight down, is that best for maximum pickup? I know you also had a lav, so maybe the overhead was for safety?
I much prefer a cardioid mic as opposed to a lav for all interiors. I also place a deep pile carpet under the chair for that little extra acoustic dampening.
Great video! What is the AI tool used for removing the room echo?
Adobe podcast
It works great!
There are several AI-powered audio denoising plugins that are compatible with Premiere Pro and may help remove echo from audio recordings:
iZotope RX: This is a professional audio repair and restoration software that includes a feature called "Dialogue De-reverb" that can effectively remove unwanted reverb and echo from audio recordings.
Accusonus ERA 5: This plugin includes a feature called "Reverb Remover" that uses AI algorithms to remove unwanted reverb and echo from audio recordings.
Waves NS1 Noise Suppressor: This plugin uses intelligent algorithms to automatically detect and remove background noise and reverberation from audio recordings.
Adobe Audition: Premiere Pro's companion audio editing software, Adobe Audition, includes several features for noise reduction and audio restoration, including a "DeReverb" effect that can reduce the echo and reverb from audio recordings.
It's always important to keep in mind that these plugins may not work perfectly in all situations and may require some manual tweaking to achieve the best results. Additionally, removing too much echo can make the audio sound unnatural, so it's important to use these tools judiciously and with a critical ear.
Awesome video! Did you shoot in clog 2 or 3 for this project?
always clog2
Great video - thanks for putting this together and for being so thorough. Forgive me if you stated this and I missed it but what's the name of the ai software you allude to that you use to remove echos in your vocals? Thanks in advance!
crumplepop echo remover AI
@@damiencooper you're a legend dude, thanks for the quick response!
Interview and course, 2 for 1 👍🏾
Do you have a link for the lav mic attachment? :)
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What haze machine did you use?
Which de-reverb are you using?
What's the AI you use for the audio?
Really loved the breakdown .
Was 50mm perfect for that room
Most of the rooms are a bit smaller do you think sigma 35 1.4 would have done as good as 50 did ?
I trief the 35mm first but the 50mm was better suited as the room was really big. But in smaller rooms I usually take a 35mm
@@damiencooper thank you just thinking of picking up 50 1.4
Curious about which audio source you went with in the final edit? Great Video!
Shotgun.
Excellent video! Just gave you a follow 👍🏼
I would love to learn more about using haze for interviews. Does anyone know if you can set off a fire alarm with haze?
Yes you can. We literally did during this interview 😂
Using a haze machine during interviews is generally not the best option tbh 🫠
@@damiencooper How funny 😀 and scary at the same time. Totally worth pulling off that amazing look though 👍🏼 Thanks for the follow up man.
Any reason why you would prefer that Deity short shotgun mic rather than a mic such as Senheiser MKH 416? I am looking to purchase a better mic than the Senheiser handheld powered by condenser I use for interviews.
Longer mics are better for outdoors where shorter mics have less reverb / echo and therefor are usually better suited for indoors (simplified)
Hey, short Question. How do you use the Luts? Do you apply a Conversion LUT (SLog2 to Rec709) first an put then an Art-Lut (like brown Sugar) on top? Thanks for your answer :)
Correct. I found that this gives the best results
Great video! Why did you use the .MP4 and not the XF-AVC? Thank you!
I made a full video about my settings and why I use them recently.
But to be honest. for this it made no difference
Question: I see you used 6 stops of ND and had ISO at 1250. Would it have been a different look if you instead lowered the ISO and not used the ND filters? Or is that the native ISO for the camera?
800 is the native iso. I talk about this in detail in my C70 exposure video
unless I missed it did you you shoot S-log or???
Mic support link?
Great video, Damien! I am a budding doc filmmaker and was very interested in this breakdown. Can you put me on a list for your course? Any more information available about that??
It’s already out.
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@@kevlally Thank you! It's been a crazy and blessed journey, that's for sure. Best you you on your own career and life journey, my friend!
Hi Damien, thanks for the insides. What Ai Tool against Echo you use?
ok, i found the answer in the questions below. My fault
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Were you. not concerned in a long interview about the light quality and amount coming through the window changing?
I knew there was so much b-roll to overlay, I could always hide it!
@@damiencooper Thanks for the response. Yea I totally see that. I wind up always getting screwed and the one bit I actually want to use of the interview a cloud comes across the window 100% of the time
Thank you jvery much for sharing this video!!!! So much great info!!!! I am curious about the technical exposure settings. You said you were using 180 ª ???? how is that?? there is no shutter speed??? and using F 1 on the lens, i think 1200 iso is very much..... can you explain this topic a little more so we can understand better???? Thank you very very MUCH!!!! BLESSINGS🙏🙏
I made a video about my exposure just a couple days ago. Check it out, all your questions will be answered there ;)
@@damiencooper thank you very much!!!! I will watch it