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Iconic scenes in The Mandalorian were filmed using a Canon 5D Mark III and Nikon lens

31 Oct

The second season of the hit Disney+ series The Mandalorian premiered today and there is fascinating photography associated with the production of the Star Wars spinoff show. For starters, some scenes in the show were shot using the Canon EOS 5D Mark III DSLR camera.

As Digital Camera World points out, not only were scenes shot using the Canon 5D Mark III, but an adapted Nikon 28mm lens was used and the camera operator was John Knoll, co-creator of Photoshop and current effects supervisor and chief creative officer at Industrial Light and Magic (ILM).

If you watched the first season of The Mandalorian and felt like scenes were reminiscent in overall appearance to the original trilogy of Star Wars movies, there’s a good reason for that. While modern technology and computer-generated imagery plays a large role in the production of The Mandalorian, showrunner and series creator Jon Favreau wanted to retain the look and feel of classic Star Wars films. As fans of the franchise are likely aware, the original Star Wars trilogy relied heavily upon physical models to film many of its iconic scenes.

Here you can see the Canon 5D Mark III camera mounted on a rail toward the right edge of the frame. The model of the Razor Crest ship is surrounded by foam board and desert imagery is being projected onto the board.

To recapture the spirit of the older Star Wars movies with The Mandalorian, Industrial Light and Magic created the titular character’s spacecraft, the Razor Crest, in its studio. John Goodson, a longtime ILM model maker created the ship using a 3D printer and tinfoil and Knoll built a 50-foot motion control rig.

In the video above, you can follow along with the team at ILM as they created the Razor Crest ship. This includes its beginnings as concept art to it being physically built and filmed as a practical miniature. We also see Knoll at work filming the first motion control shots at ILM in 15 years. It’s a fascinating look at how iconic objects, such as a protagonist’s ship in a Star Wars series, are created and brought to life.

Of creating the Razor Crest model for filming as a practical miniature, Knoll says that it’s important to strike a balance with the size of the model. You want it large enough that its details hold up when close to the camera, but not so large that it’s difficult to create a dynamic motion shot when running it along a rigged track. Ultimately, the team settled on a model around 24″ long.

The team used a Nikon 28mm lens on the Canon camera. And the man behind the controls? The creator of Photoshop. The production is a blend of photographic history.

Goodson remarked that one of the biggest differences between scenes shot using computer generated graphics versus a scene shot using miniatures is that when using a physical model, you are limited by the availability of mounting points for objects. There are certain angles and shots you simply can’t achieve when using models. However, that look and certain types of motion are also ingrained in people’s memories of older Star Wars movies. The team at ILM worked very hard to make sure that shots of the Razor Crest model evoked that same look as old shots. From the perspective of this Star Wars fan, they nailed it.

(Via Digital Camera World)

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NBC’s Tonight Show filmed its latest episode entirely on the Galaxy S10+ smartphone

26 Mar

There have been iPad commercials shot with iPads and feature-length films made on smartphones, so why not add a late night television show to the list of jobs smartphones are taking over.

Tonight’s episode (March 25, 2019) of NBC’s Tonight Show will be shot entirely on a Galaxy S10+ smartphone and its wide-angle camera, a bold move to turn not just 30 seconds into a commercial, but the entire episode.

As you might expect, the show won’t be taking its normal format though. Rather than sitting at his desk throughout the evening, Fallon, his accompanying band, The Roots, and a few guests will be taking a tour around his favorite locations around New York City, from The Django jazz club to singing with Conor McGregor at a New York Irish pub, it’s very much an on-location shoot designed to showcase the photo and video capabilities of Samsung’s latest flagship smartphone.

In an interview with Variety, Samsung’s vice president of marketing, Patricio Paucar, unabashedly says the move was done to combat traditional advertising avenues:

‘We know consumer attention is being pulled in so many different directions today. It’s really hard to break through the noise and get people to engage in a way that best communicates the benefits of your products.’

In addition to the Tonight Show, Samsung will be showcasing a high volume of commercials for the S10+ across various networks and television shows, including NBC’s Today, Bravo’s Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen, Telemundo’s La Vox and E!’s Snapchat show The Rundown.

From the sample video above, the footage looks promising. It’d be interesting to see what’s going on behind the camera though and see what sort of rig the camera is arranged on.

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How Seasaw Filmed a Music Video in Just 6 Hours, and You Can Too!

23 Mar

We love it when our friends do cool things, especially when they’re cool photo or video things. And we love it even more when they tell us all the secrets to how they did it.

Our friend Meg is in the band Seasaw and she recently used a few Photojojo products, an app, and an iPhone to make their latest music video – a cover of Weezer’s “Say It Ain’t So.”

The entire video was shot in just six hours, in a kitchen. Say whaaaat? Just how did they do it?

Below you can find Meg’s steps to music video magic, and try one or all of these tips when filming your next flick!

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Aerial Urbex: 7 Difficult Deserted Places Filmed with Drones

17 Feb

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Drones have changed the landscape of urban exploration and building infiltration, allowing their navigators access to toxic, irradiated, forbidden and structurally unsound places. These haunting videos illustrate how drones have been used to document inaccessible spaces and find amazing forgotten places.

St. Peter’s Seminary in Cardross, Scotland, is set to be restored thanks to millions in grants and donations, but for now it remains in a remarkably ruined state – crumbling, overgrown and vandalized.  The scenes shot for this film are amazing as they not only fly over and around the building by right through it, passing between levels missing both floors and ceilings that would otherwise be impossible to see in person.

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Underdrone combines upside-down footage from the “Lost Places Project,” a world tour including destinations within France, Argentina, Sicily, Greece and China using a DJI Ph2, H3-3D and GoPro3. The inverted perspective adds a layer of eerie vertigo to these spectacular and strange settings.

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Drones can also provide the means to uncover new abandonments, discovering long-deserted places that have fallen from maps and have no landmarks pointing the way, as was the case with this abandoned Renaissance Faire. Locate in Fredericksburg, Virginia, it was found thanks to the use of a quadcopter and TBS Discovery with Naza GPS. The remote location is possible to reach, but thanks to ticks in the area may be best enjoyed remotely (or: via remote control).

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Canon 7D mirror box filmed at 10,000fps

31 Jan

The Slow Mo Guys do just what their name implies – record slow motion videos. In a new episode they use a Phantom Flex to capture the Canon 7D’s mirror box and shutter mechanism being triggered at a variety of shutter speeds. The results are pretty darn cool. See video

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Hosta flowers opening time lapse filmed over 14 days

17 Jan

Host flowers opening over a period of 14 days time lapse. Filmed by Neil Bromhall for www.rightplants4me.co.uk my free to browse website plant finder, plant identification and pruning advice online resource. The flowers open over a period of 14 days to ensure that some of the flowers are pollinated even if the weather turns bad within this period and the insects temporarily can’t fly around to pollinate them. Filmed on Nikon D300. 55mm macro nikkor lens and studio flash. Music ‘Early Morning’ by Oliver Ledbury
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Acorn to Oak filmed over an 8 month period time-lapse

21 Aug

Acorn to Oak seedling filmed over a period of 8 months. Filmed by Neil Bromhall for www.rightplants4me.co.uk The acorn was collected in September and filmed in an underground set using a 2 hour interval between exposures. The acorn split soon after it was planted and continued to split during the winter months. In January the first sign of root growing could be seen followed in February by the emergence of shoot. In March the shoot broke through the soil surface. The leaves formed between March and April. This is an example of hypogeal germination. Filmed on Nikon D300. 55mm macro nikkor lens and studio flash with growlight for top shot. This sequence accompanies my interactive plant identification website www.rightplants4me.co.uk Music ‘Pendulum’ by Oliver Ledbury
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This video Features the 1st place winners of all the pullup contests this summer… but it’s not about that alone. Shout out to the entire Bar/Calisthenics Community. We have definitely “Raised the Bar” to say the least. But this is the time to take it to the next level. This is our time!