When Sundance Channel asked Big City to come up with a few example videos for their first annual “Big Ideas Contest,” TreeHugger Radio’s Jacob Gordon suggested that we get in touch with Kenny Luna the man behind Mr. Luna’s Bright Idea. Our fantastic cinematographer Marcus Burnett rolled in with the Panasonic HVX camera outfitted with the Brevis 35mm lens adapter as well as twenty feet of dolly track. Given our small crew, we were lucky that the kids in the class were eager to lend a hand setting up the gear. Also, we were racing the clock before the group of students were let out for their next class, so we shot all the footage of them first — much of which was overcranked for slo-motion at 48 frames-per-second. The whole spot was shot in 720p native HD to P2 cards. Then George Spyros interviewed Kenny and we shot his dollying b-roll, again done in the native slo-mo frame rate rolling along on the skateboard dolly happily. We had talent hold a porcelain socket loaded with a CFL bulb and ran zip chord through his sleeve. Then, just at the perfect moment, we plugged in the bulb for the magical light-turning-on gag. So other than that practical, the spot was lit entirely with 2 ft. 4 bank Kino Flo units articulated on c-stands. We shot the whole thing in about three hours. It was edited in about one-hour and twenty minutes — that is, after all the footage was ingested into the Final Cut Pro system and the up-side-down footage from theBrevis 35mm lens adapterwas flipped and exported to right-side-up Quicktime files. Given the beautiful images the rig generates, it was well worth the extra effort.
Sundance Channel Big Idea Contest
CO2 Dry Cleaners
Patented High School Student Invention: Compost Hot Box
Global Warming Club
George Spyros - Executive Producer, Director, Shooter, Editor
Marcus Burnett, Director of Photography
Gregg Guinta, Producer
Panasonic HVX200 Digital HD Camera
Century Pro Series HD Fisheye Lens
Panasonic P2 Card
Duel Adapter PCMCIA Card to ExpressCard Device
Skateboard Dolly
Panasonic DVX100 24p Camcorder
BCP Jargon Patrol: 24p
BCP Jargon Patrol: 35mm Lens Adapter
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Newton interprets each 2D layer as a rigid body in a real environment. Once simulation is completed, animation is recreated in After Effects with standard keyframes.
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ot to be confused with the world’s smallest stop-motion animation character which happened to have been shot with a Nokia N8 smartphone, Dot is an eyeball attachment for the iPhone 4 that allows you to shoot video in 360 degree panoramas.
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The Oona looks like a useful tool for rigging up your iPhone in tight shooting situations or as a car mount.
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