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FreshDV November 13 Live Show Podcast Archive

Published by Matthew Jeppsen November 17th, 2007 in FreshDV, News

Feed Your Brain - Join the FreshDV Live Show discussion and be heardWe had great discussion during last Tuesday’s Nov. 13th Live FreshDV Show, thanks to both Kendal Miller and Rick Henshaw for helping me host the show. In case you missed the live show, we’ve uploaded a audio archive which is now available in our normal Podcast Feed. Feed subscribers should see it show up soon. It is also available as direct MP3 and AAC downloads via the below links (note that the AAC version has annotated chapters). And you’ll want to join us live next Tuesday at 9:30PM Central Time for a discussion about Kendal’s recent RED commercial shoot, and how we believe the new CF-card capable camcorders from Sony will shake up the industry. We’d love to hear listener opinions on those topics, so be prepared to call-in and join the discussion. And if you have production-related questions about the RED One camera, Kendal will be happy to fill you in.

icon for podpress  FreshDV Live Show for 11/13/2007 (with chapters) [72:08m]: Download
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Topics we discussed in our hour-long 11/13/2007 live show are listed below:
Chapter 1 - Intro/News
*Redrock microMatteBox Shipping Window and Features Discussion.
*FreshDV’s Matte Box Review Videos are up.
*Zacuto has released RED One handheld and studio accessory rig options.
*Commentary on Kendal Miller’s recent review of “The Power of Lighting” DVD training series.

Chapter 2 - Lighting and Cinematography
*Lighting and the role of a Cinematographer.

Chapter 3 - Cinematography in Event Video
*Is “cinematography” just a catch-phrase in Wedding/Event Video?
*Artistic vision and dictating portions of the wedding day.
*Building rapport with clients vs. the “service” approach.

Chapter 4 - Stereotypes in Event Video
*Doing your job vs being “unobtrusive”.
*Confidence in your own skillset and abilities.

Chapter 5 - Directing and Pre-production
*Directing and encouraging moments in the day.
*The importance of subtlety and people skills.
*Storyboarding on-the-fly and shooting for the edit.
*Shots in the toolbag, and what matters 30 years later.

Chapter 6 - Wedding Video vs “Real Production”
*Not all videographers deliver the same product.
*Stigmas of the wedding and event industry.
*Outside perceptions that seem to levelize at the lowest common denominator.
*Technical ability vs telling a story, the need for both.

Chapter 7 - Storytelling and Moving Camera Techniques
*The progression towards more control over the environment and pre-production. Frustration and “hitting the ceiling.”
*Boredom, moving camera techniques, storytelling motivations for movement.

Chapter 8 - Motivations for Camera Movement
*What triggers indicate a particular shot should be handheld vs dolly vs tripod, etc? Breaking down the motivations in a script or composition.
*”Saving Private Ryan” and the “24″ style of shooting.
*The efficiency of handheld shooting in production.

Chapter 9 - WGA Writers Strike Discussion
*The current state of the strike, how long will it last?
*Variety article on Hollywood gross profit declines. DVD sales down.
*How much writers earned in the first week of Transformers DVD release.

Chapter 10 - Upcoming Lowel Rifa EX Review
*Comments.

Check in with the FreshDV crew tonight for our regular Tuesday night live show at 9:30 PM Central Time. We will post the call-in number at the start of the show, so have your comments and questions ready.

5 Responses to “FreshDV November 13 Live Show Podcast Archive”  

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  1. 1 david Nov 22nd, 2007 at 2:27 pm

    Hey guys,

    Just discovered your site recently. Love the podcasts. learned a lot from them, so always look forward to them.

    Especially liked the podcasts about digital distribution. I have my opinions about film making in general. I find a lot of filmmakers seem to be obsessed about the technology, technical, but I am a firm beleiver that you can make a movie with no money that is a piece of nitro, if you come up with a great concept, story, hook, and regardless of camera, edit, and the quality of distrubution format, people will buy into it. And I wish filmmakers in general would get more obsessed about getting a great concept.

    However, I know you guys are here to talk about the technical, and thats great, because I am just learning about cams and editing, but I sometimes want to get across to filmmakers, damm, focus on getting a great script and don’t get too hung up on technical TOO much. There’s a point where we can have all the perfect tools and distribution, but crap content. Then we are all just hollywood ourselves

    Anyway, I know you will know this, but obviously this is the site where technical stuff is discussed, and I love it. As that is my weakness. I am soaking it all up!

    I have the scripts, but all this technical knowledge is freeing me more. So thanks for this! Excellent! look forward to next week.
    david
    scotland
    uk
    ps.
    Building my film website at moment, once built I will plug your show on it

  2. 2 Matthew Jeppsen Nov 22nd, 2007 at 6:33 pm

    Thanks for the comments, David. I agree, we all tend to get hung up on the tools at times, and forget the reason those tools exist. There needs to be a balance in filmmaking.

    We’ve got a great podcast coming that I think you will really enjoy. It’s a discussion with a group of indie filmmakers with a strong focus on performances and story, and how they shot a feature which will soon be hitting the festival circuit. Look for that in about a week.

    Thanks again for the feedback, keep it coming.

    -Matt Jeppsen

  3. 3 david Dec 8th, 2007 at 4:21 am

    cheers Matt, look forward to it.

    David

  4. 4 Andrew McMillan Feb 5th, 2008 at 9:17 pm

    hey you know I love freshdv and the work you guys have been doing on the ex1, but I keep missing the live shows.
    I was just woundering when when you be updating the podcasts.

  5. 5 Kendal Miller Feb 5th, 2008 at 10:37 pm

    We have not been doing live podcast recently due to all the testing work we have been doing. Our goal is to still do podcast on a semi regular basis. The best way to ensure you get everything is the iTunes feed. We’ll have some new podcast coming up as soon as we get some time…besides the podcast check the tutorial section there is often lots of “fresh” info there as well.

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