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A weekly podcast for aspiring filmmakers looking for advice from working professionals and how their stories can inspire you to grow your business and craft. www.atdavidlee.com | www.legendarymediahouse.com | Instagram @atdavidlee | YouTube www.youtube.com/atdavidlee
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Tuesday Aug 15, 2023
Tuesday Aug 15, 2023
Ever used a wall spreader? More importantly, WHY haven't you used a wall spreader? They're fantastic! Especially when you don't have any windows to light from and are looking to create your room tone from over head rather than from the ground. In this episode i'll be going over why Wall Spreaders are so handy and especially for the price they will instantly be a part of your G&E kit.
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Monday Aug 07, 2023
Monday Aug 07, 2023
Looking to match your Sony FX and Alpha line cameras? Perhaps you're in the market for a B-Camera and want to know how you can match your existing Sony camera to another that isn't the same model as your current camera. I own a Sony FX9 and Sony A7IV which honestly has been the closet match in terms of color and white balance matching. I've also used the FX6, FX3 and A7SIII alongside my FX9 and they're all a little different. The one constant that has helped me match all the cameras in post are the Phantom LUTs. I'm not sponsored by Joel and have purchased his Phantom LUTs dating back to the FS7. This episode isn't just talking about the LUT but the differences between the sensors to give you a better idea of what to expect when matching your cameras.
Link to Phantom LUTs: https://www.joelfamularo.com/colour
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Sunday Jul 30, 2023
Sunday Jul 30, 2023
We're back! Can you believe it! Yes I am alive and well, though I would lying if I said the last two weeks of the feature film haven't been rough. Rewarding but tough, anyways! Today we're talking about how to approach shooting fight scenes with the theme of "Shoot for the edit". The main take aways from this episode to help you with your next fight scene are the following:
1.) Know your location so you can know the blocking
2.) Work with your director and fight designer on the specifics (focal length, composition, camera movement etc) so you can start working on your lighting diagrams
3.) Light the space, then use fixtures you can setup fast to keep the flow going for the actors.
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Saturday Jul 15, 2023
Saturday Jul 15, 2023
Well well well, looks whose back! Me...no one special *sigh* BUT we have a breakdown of a scene from my recent Kickstarter project "A Drowning Heart" that we had to shoot two cameras at the same time in this dialogue scene for the sake of staying on schedule. I could ramble on about why and what we used or you could take a few minutes to listen to the episode instead! Shooting multi camera is something we all do from time to time but it's never without its challenges which I hope after today you can take what I did and do way better for your next two camera setup!
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Wednesday Jul 12, 2023
Wednesday Jul 12, 2023
Post Cinegear episode, although I wasn't able to attend Cinegear due to unforeseen circumstances I did make it to a pre-event that week which will be the precursor to this episode. It's really never been better for us as filmmakers, whether you're just starting out or are a seasoned professional. The quality and quantity of gear from lighting fixtures to lenses to gimbals, all at various price ranges, have truly opened up the doors of possibilities and opportunities for all of us. I hope you enjoy today's episode, the insights I offer as it's my way of supporting all of you guys and gals out there.
LINK TO MY KICKSTARTER IS HERE:
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Monday May 29, 2023
Monday May 29, 2023
Little life update for you all who have been wondering where the podcast episodes have been! Well, life has been extremely busy juggling things between my film, the kickstarter for said film, a feature film i'll be on in July and client work. So here's a short update on all of that before we head into Cinegear LA weekend!
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Monday Mar 20, 2023
Monday Mar 20, 2023
And we're back! Another breakdown video for a sports water commercial that was part product part lifestyle. We had exteriors to shoot as we ll as interiors that required us to create the light ourselves since we had no option to motivate light coming through any type of window/doorway. The gym itself was active with a lot of customers throughout the day so we had to work around that along with a overcast day during our day exteriors. The biggest thing when it comes to overcast is since the light is already soft you still need to do your best to create some level of contrast or variance in the image and using neg/solids with the combination of diffusion and bounces can be your best friend. For the interiors I feel we did a pretty good job creating the mood and tone and since the cuts were going to be super fast in the edit I didn't want to spend so much extra time as we had roughly 13 setups to do throughout the day.
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Monday Mar 13, 2023
Monday Mar 13, 2023
Apologies for the late episode upload but I had to wait until the full product was delivered before I could release this episode. So here we are! First virtual production and my experience working with the volume wall. We had a curved wall we were working on about 20ft tall by 40ft wide. There was a mixture of video playback occurring on the wall as well as live tracking for one of the scenes. Overall I had a great experience with volume technology and I can certainly see it's application over green/blue screen but like everything when it comes to technology there will always be issues both on the hardware and software side of things which I talk about in this episode.
Link to the BTS images and videos:
https://atdavidlee.com/breakdowns/
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Tuesday Feb 21, 2023
Tuesday Feb 21, 2023
What's good friends! Today we have a long one but it's an interview episode I was on with the good folks Aaron and Chaz from Story Over Everything:
Link to their Apple Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/fr/podcast/story-over-everything/id1437280815?l=en
Link to their Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/5f6PL89RJ7jL8Eey6G3yIN
Aaron ask's a lot of great questions when it comes to pitching, production, post production and client relations with regard to Branded Documentary projects. If anything you can hear me rant about things for an hour as well if you fancy that!
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Friday Feb 03, 2023
Friday Feb 03, 2023
When the client/agency says, "Do we need all these people here today?" you look without hesitation and say a big, "YES". I'm sure you've been in that position at least once in your career, it's an awkward place to be because you feel inclined to defend your reasoning for why you have the amount of crew you have. We all know it's not about flexing, especially since we're dealing with money, it's about ensuring that everything the client/agency needs is captured on the day and that means efficiency. Without the proper crew on the day you have to sacrifice something (amount of shots, amount of ads etc). In today's episode I wanted to talk about ways you can tackle these conversations on the day as well as during the pre-production phase so that we can get the crew we need based upon business goals for the client.
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