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Experimenting with 16mm film in the studio with Matt and Thomas. Shooting experimental rolls of 16mm film and learning about lighting, color, shade, and more. Are you a fan of 16mm? Leave a comment below to share more.
Matt Moloney: https://www.instagram.com/matt_moloney/
Thomas Rutigliano: https://www.instagram.com/thomas_rutigliano/
Camera: K3 from Max (https://www.instagram.com/k3super16/)
Film: Kodak Vision3 500T (Color) + Kodak Tri-X (B&W)
Developed and Scanned: Colorlab
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what's going on everybody it's matt here
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again from filter grade today i'm back
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with another 16 millimeter video um i
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recently just got the film back from
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color lab in maryland and
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the footage came about
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insane like i'm really really shocked
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with the way that it looks and
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everything like that
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in the footage you'll see it's me and my
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friend thomas rotigliano i'll link him
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in the description we just shot honestly
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two rolls of
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film in the studio for fun kind of just
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experimenting with light
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i wanted to test and see like how sharp
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of focus we could get
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on
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small little text in books things like
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that
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just details with the fashion stuff like
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that so
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it was a lot of fun and i'm gonna go
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through all the footage and tell you a
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little bit about how i shot it because
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i'm still just like really really
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surprised with how well it came out so
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let's just go ahead and get into it
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all right so
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getting started um
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i just wanted to do like a screen test
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and basically i've been reading this
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book by andy or not by andy warhol but
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it's a biography about andy warhol
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and
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in the book it just talked about how he
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did these screen tests where he would
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just set up a camera on a tripod and
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tell somebody kind of like just stand in
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front of it he wouldn't give them any
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direction
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wouldn't really tell them what to do
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anything like that you just
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have somebody stand in front of it walk
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away let the camera record for 10
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minutes or whatever and
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just basically as a study on observation
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and so i thought this was really
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interesting
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obviously i don't right now i don't have
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the money to just spend tons of
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money on film so i just did a little 10
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or 20 second variation of this but i
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think it was really cool um
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kind of just to see
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what somebody is like when they're just
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still you know they're they're not told
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what to do or anything they just sit
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there
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kind of just blink and it's just a
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portrait of that person so
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it was really interesting thought it was
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cool especially with the backdrop it
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really
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really kind of complemented it
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um moving on
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the next shot we wanted to try some more
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kind of like sharp light more more
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contrasty like just playing with the
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shapes and stuff like that so we we
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moved it kind of just lighting on the
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left side and
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we turned off the main key light that we
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had on the right so it's kind of just
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like
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a small
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little sliver that you know you see on
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his face which i think it it actually
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really looks like quite dramatic kind of
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cool after that i wanted to just get
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some like quick detail shots something
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that i've been trying to do with the 16
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millimeter camera that i'm testing with
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the k3 that i mentioned in the first
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video is trying to get it to mimic
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how i used to shoot with super 8 and
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what i mean by that is kind of just like
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quick little
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little like jittery um like trigger
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pulls i guess you would say which
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with by that i mean like one or two
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seconds of footage that's just really
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flashy really fast paced and i really
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love the way that that looks especially
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i was able to really do it well with the
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super 8 camera
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because it was in 18 frames per second
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that's what i was limited to
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with
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the
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k3 i can go
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up to 60 or 120 frames per second so
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it's kind of like almost
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hard i've been shooting at 24 frames per
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second but it's still a little bit hard
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to mimic that like quick fast paced
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trigger action that i had with the super
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8 so i might start bumping it down to 18
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frames per second when i want to do
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those shots but overall
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i think it looks cool
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um this little fashion shutter step i'm
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always a big fan of that
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then we went in and moved on to some
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really cool like colored lighting
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schemes so i have these just little led
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tube lights that i've really been
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wanting to test out with film um they
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look really great on digital but i
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wanted to try it out on film see
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if it would be enough light to actually
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like illuminate the scene
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and the subject so
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we went with a little
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simple um
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you know
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blue and red or like purple and red kind
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of color palette and
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i think it came out really cool like
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seeing
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the red on his skin and then the blue on
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the side it's just like it to me it
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really looks cool so i'm happy with how
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that came out i really want to try
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something like this for a music video or
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a commercial or something like that
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and then next i wanted to kind of back
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up i have a different backdrop set up
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and there's a little bit more space to
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stand further back
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um using the other backdrop setup
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so what i did for this part was
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kind of
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i wanted to test out
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what it's like you know zooming in and
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out and i know that sounds kind of like
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really simple but with this kind of
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camera just not being used to it i
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really just wanted to to see what the
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mechanism was like see
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you know if i'd be able to make it a
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smooth
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zoom in or zoom out
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so
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you know just tried that out it looks
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cool i think the lighting isn't the best
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in here
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it's just kind of flat
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um
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the shots with the book i really
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actually like these i intended to get a
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light in it
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for some of them
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just
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because it was kind of an experimental
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role
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for
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the shots of the book i'm actually
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really happy with it because you can you
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can see
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you know the little font that's even in
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the book
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and i had i had tried to do a shot like
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this with super 8 for a music video
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actually a few months ago
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and
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the goal was to kind of just get like
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the title screen to be like a
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it was on a typewriter like a typewriter
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note and i got the shot but
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for whatever reason i think it's just
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super 8 you know it's such a small
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medium in terms of like the actual film
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itself
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that you can't really see those tiny
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tiny details so
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it was a cool idea and concept didn't
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really work out
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i'm very very happy that this experiment
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worked with the book um on 60 millimeter
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film because i definitely want to use
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this um
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i definitely want to use this now that i
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kind of
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know that it's possible so
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super cool
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then after that
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i gave thomas the camera because i
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wanted to try some different lighting
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things i forget who it was but i saw
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this shot
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um and it was just of a plant in a
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studio with this slow moving light and
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it was in black and white film so i knew
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i wanted to eventually try it on black
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and white
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luckily thomas actually brought a roll
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of black and white film that we could
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shoot after this first um color roll
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which was a kodak 500t
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like you know perfect for the studio or
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whatever so
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um
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long story short i saw that clip and i
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really wanted to recreate it see how i
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could mimic it so i let thomas shoot
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this shot
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um
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and i kind of just played with the light
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moving it
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kind of almost mimicking like sunrise
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sunset type of thing you'll see in the
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footage i
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i did a few different like tests some of
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them were just
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like going back and forth and they
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didn't really turn out well but one of
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them at the end kind of has it the light
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turning actually towards the camera lens
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and you get this little this sun flare
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you know light flare effect that's i
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thought i thought that was really cool
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so
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definitely going to try and play around
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with that some more
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so another part of the that same role
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was
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going to
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kind of a like a concert event slash
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thing
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and it was a nighttime event with
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definitely a low light setting so
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i wanted i going into it i intended to
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shoot like a whole roll or two
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but once i got there it just didn't look
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like there was going to be enough light
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as you can see on the footage it still
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came out
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it still came out but it's not it's
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definitely nowhere near as bright as i
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would have preferred it to be um the
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nighttime footage of the city actually
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looks pretty cool and some of the
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artists when it's a close-up that looks
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really cool as well but you can't really
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see anybody in the crowd which is a pro
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and a con
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but
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yeah i think
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if i
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were to do this in the future i would
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just make sure to have a lot of light if
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it's going to be a nighttime setting
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because
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i just didn't want to waste the film on
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risking it not coming out bright enough
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or anything like that
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so the next part
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of the footage was
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i don't know why this is all jumbled up
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but the next part of the footage was
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just some
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i just wanted to do some fashion like
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details test shots i had thomas back up
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way far in the studio and then
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kind of just
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literally just point and shoot me
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walking back and forth putting on
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clothes stuff like that
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i think it's interesting a little bit i
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just wanted to really at this point
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in my head i was just like really
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wanting to make sure that all the
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lighting was gonna
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be bright enough
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because i shooting in the studio was
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super eight in the past like i've
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it's worked but you really you really
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need to think about all the lighting
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that you will need to have and where you
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want like what you want to be showing
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well lit versus not because on film it
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will really stand out
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that's lit that's not lit so
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just something to be mindful of
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a color or a black and white reversal
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film i think and the lab said i had
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gotten an email from the lab that
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basically said like they only process
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um
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like standard black and white or
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something i i'm honestly not too much
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familiar with the black and white film
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terminology and all that it was either
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reversal or non-reversal and they had to
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process it and whatever
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they normally do for like color film
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just with the black and white chemicals
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um which honestly it didn't really
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matter that much
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so
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long story short got the black and white
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footage back super happy with this we
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did a lot of experimenting with
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flashing lights
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um kind of making it like a strobe
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effect like a horror scene
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and
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yeah we just did more fashion
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experimenting this was kind of like
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us just wanting to make sure that there
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would be enough light
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in hindsight there probably wasn't
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enough light but that also made the
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footage come out that much better so
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definitely not mad about it it's really
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a grungy look and once i kind of
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boosted the exposure a little and added
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like a a curve
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i think it looked it looked pretty cool
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to me
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um i'll put in the this little like
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advertisement for the clothing that i
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was working on i'll put that in right
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here so you can see how it looks
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to me that was like really really cool
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just
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putting the pieces together between
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um the model shots the shots of the
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clothing by itself the shots with me in
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it the thomas shot just putting
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everything together with the song too
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with the beat in the back
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my friend funk is free on instagram i'll
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link him below he made that beat and
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it's it just brought the whole entire
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piece together so super grateful for
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that really happy with how that project
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turned out and
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yeah i just couldn't be couldn't be
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happier with how all the the color came
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out the black and white came out and
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really i'm just excited to start
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shooting a lot lot more 16 millimeter
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film because this has just opened up my
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eyes to the possibilities
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and
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yeah now i'm
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i'm just ready to go so if you have any
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questions
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if you like the video make sure to leave
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a like and a comment
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if you have anything like that don't
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hesitate to reach out to me on instagram
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matt underscore maloney i'll link that
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in the description as well
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but yeah like thanks so much for
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watching i hope you guys enjoyed hope
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this was
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um educational and that it uh inspires
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you to go out and you know shoot some 16
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millimeter film so thanks so much for
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watching and peace out have a good one
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bye
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