
Act of Valor : A movie shot mostly on Canon DSLRs
#1
Posted 22 February 2012 - 08:44 AM
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#2
Posted 22 February 2012 - 09:15 AM
Well it has submarines planes and lots of action with explosions and gunfire... and for WP, underwater scenes shot on a 5D2, and it looked pretty darn awesome on a 75ft screen. Sometimes 600lpi doesn't matter so long as the DP knows what they are doing. Here's the trailer:
Amazing, isn't it? I looked around when they started with the trailers and "Featuring Real Navy Seals," and caught the 5D Mark II info. Was the whole thing shot on 5D Mark IIs?
#3
Posted 22 February 2012 - 09:37 AM
Read Shane's blog for some insight:
http://www.hurlbutvisuals.com/blog/
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#4
Posted 22 February 2012 - 09:41 AM
Drew
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#5
Posted 22 February 2012 - 12:47 PM
Opps it was actually 70% DSLR and the rest on HDCAM/film. Almost all the action scenes were DSLR.
Thanks for the link, will go through it. Very impressive showing for the DSLRs.
Cannot wait to see what the next 5D looks like spec wise.
#6
Posted 22 February 2012 - 04:41 PM
http://www.wired.com...g/act-of-valor/
#7
Posted 22 February 2012 - 07:57 PM
It's definitely a PR piece for the Navy. Why else would they give access to aircraft carriers etc, live rounds and let their personnel act in a movie? Movies have never the most "ethical" of crafts. Any major production is carbon negative, the environmental impact is often great and stories often BS, plus there are plenty of product placements (note how many times certain brand products are utilized in a movie or TV show?!? Welcome to the world of entertainment. However, this particular movies feeds off the baser feelings with first person POV (just like Call of Duty), lots of action and even more testosterone.
Drew
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#8
Posted 23 February 2012 - 06:33 AM
I do think it is probably not good for someone, psychologically, to watch this. Just as I think watching "The Real Housewives of NJ" makes my girlfriend more emotionally unstable, in a similar vane this makes people more likely to acquiesce to the problem of an ever expanding military.... because we begin to believe it is cool...
I prefer not to entertain these sorts of entertainments... because they fill our brains with doo-doo.
#9
Posted 23 February 2012 - 07:43 AM
Still it was a fun film and it only lacked more sex appeal to be a real commercial movie. It would've been fun for the SEAL team to portray a don't ask don't tell gay character in it just to shake things up. Definitely not in the perceived demographic, but then again the archaic attitudes won't change if the general pop culture doesn't move toward it more rapidly.
Drew
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#10
Posted 23 February 2012 - 08:14 AM

Dean
#11
Posted 23 February 2012 - 09:26 AM
I was sent two advance preview tickets for tonight which, unfortunately I cannot attend, so my wife and a friend will be going without me. I am jealous.
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#12
Posted 23 February 2012 - 01:17 PM
I understand that a lot of entertainment is BS. This is not new to me. Neither is it new that the military tries to put propaganda into our entertainment.
I agree
And I'm tired to see the same color grading again and again and again. The same soup warmed up!
Navy Seals should find and catch the director of photography of Transformers!!!

If I was Obama I would ban AE and MB form the Earth

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Would be nice moving this thread on Editing, Post Production, and Sharing and maybe formatting the embedded video so users could see also on a normal screen?
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Edited by M43user, 23 February 2012 - 01:18 PM.
https://vimeo.com/bocio/
#13
Posted 23 February 2012 - 01:54 PM
Steve
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Steve Douglas
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I have worked as an unpaid reviewer for the editing websites since 2002. Most all hardware and software is sent to me free of charge, however, in no way am I obligated to provide either positive or negative evaluations. Any suggestions I make regarding products are a result of my own, completely, personal opinions and experiences with said products.
#14
Posted 23 February 2012 - 03:16 PM
Don't know if you ever have seen the cop show 'Southland' but they practically desaturate the entire show to get that gritty street feel. Very realistic show. You're right, this should have been posted in the Editing, Production and Sharing forum, not gear. Well, anyone can make a mistake.
Steve
I found it on YT
the grading is a sort of the Classic "bleach bypass". It's second only to' the "transformer" or blockbuster look
the thread is ok but please resize the embedded video.
PS
any chance having a mobile layout here
byeeeeee
https://vimeo.com/bocio/