January 20th
Jan. 20. Today I'm finishing the cut of the forest exterior scenes that were shot on a VERY LOG Halloween night. Probably the most memorable October 31 of my life. Crazy fun and stressful.
A lesson re-learned about using fog/smoke. We had a fog machine and people responsible for keeping the fog in the forest consistent. A near impossible task with shifting wind and so on. But it's so hard to have good fog continuity. The toughest part is changing the focal length of the lenses. For instance shooting a wide shot, say the camera is 25 feet from the subject with X amount of fog and it looks like your shooting from 25 feet away. No the difficulty comes from then trying to get coverage or say close-ups. When you're in a rush, which we were, instead of moving the camera, you change the lense length and go telephoto/zoom. Still shooting from the 25 foot distance, the subject now looks much bigger in frame and appears to be only a few feet away. But you still have 25 feet worth of fog between the camera and the subject and the lenses just compresses that fog and it seems like there is WAY MORE. It causes nightmares in the edit suite. We had enough coverage that it wasn't really an issue, but it could have been.
The funny thing is, at about 3AM on the night, I remember telling the fog crew' that there was too much, "LESSEN THE FOG" or as we would say "FOG OFF". The reply came back that they haven't had the machine on for the last half hour. It actually got REALLY foggy naturally. Now we had NO control over it... then it started raining which created a new problem... but that's another story.
Brett
A lesson re-learned about using fog/smoke. We had a fog machine and people responsible for keeping the fog in the forest consistent. A near impossible task with shifting wind and so on. But it's so hard to have good fog continuity. The toughest part is changing the focal length of the lenses. For instance shooting a wide shot, say the camera is 25 feet from the subject with X amount of fog and it looks like your shooting from 25 feet away. No the difficulty comes from then trying to get coverage or say close-ups. When you're in a rush, which we were, instead of moving the camera, you change the lense length and go telephoto/zoom. Still shooting from the 25 foot distance, the subject now looks much bigger in frame and appears to be only a few feet away. But you still have 25 feet worth of fog between the camera and the subject and the lenses just compresses that fog and it seems like there is WAY MORE. It causes nightmares in the edit suite. We had enough coverage that it wasn't really an issue, but it could have been.
The funny thing is, at about 3AM on the night, I remember telling the fog crew' that there was too much, "LESSEN THE FOG" or as we would say "FOG OFF". The reply came back that they haven't had the machine on for the last half hour. It actually got REALLY foggy naturally. Now we had NO control over it... then it started raining which created a new problem... but that's another story.
Brett
posted by Brett Sullivan at 8:29 PM
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