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The Darkest Road

I’m beyond proud to present the video I created for Australian Metalcore/Powercore legends A Breach of Silence. Logistically this was one of the biggest clips I’ve created in my time working within the Music Video medium. Here’s a few notes on the filming locations, process and equipment used:

Story Elements:
The story footage was shot on a private production farm in the outer Brisbane area. With the help of Jacob Schneider (Actor/Photographer) and William France (Photographer/Musician) we headed off into the dark of night toward a private farm near Caboolture. I’d always wanted to film at a location with greenhouses so it was nice to finally make that happen. All moon light in the story footage is provided by a 1000 Watt Lupolux light at 2 O’clock, obviously the light would move with framing etc. I won’t lie it was amazing to finally get to film a big bonfire as well, another shot I’ve wanted to get for years! The only set specific gear was the Lupo and 2 x Fresnals for the greenhouses.

Dan’s Treatment:
Huge thanks to Frankie Nasso for booking someone to get the shots for us. Cheers!

Band Performance:
This part of the shot was logistically more intense than anything I’ve had to create thus far (bigger and better I hope). I recruited a close friend and very competent cameraman Adrian Pagano to assist on the night with lighting. Travelling further north, this time to Elimbah, we made our way to a HUGE private property and setup. The following lighting fixtures were used:
– 1200 watt HMI primary (lightstar)
– 1000 watt Lupolux
– 650 watt Lupolux
– 2 x 350 watt Fresnals (under Green GEL)
– 3 x Honda 20i Generators

Here’s a list of gear used of the shoot for anyone keen:
– Canon 5Dmk3
– Zeiss 35mm Flektagon f2.4
– Zeiss 50.m T*Planar f1.4
– Tokina 11-16mm f.28
– Genus Fader ND’s
– SmallHD DP4 EVF
– Jag35.com rigs
– Magic Lantern raw
– a shit ton of high speed cards
– home made snorii cam, the death rig

– Col B.

5Dmk3 – RAW Video Test – ISO100 – Magic Lantern

After visiting some mates I decided I would stop off road side and take a few quick clips in full daylight using the RAW video hack from Magic Lantern. Amazing results is all I can say. All shots were taken at f8, 23.976fps. I used and abused the following gear:
– Canon 5Dmk3
– Magic Lantern
– Zeiss 50mm T*Planar 1.4
– Genus Fader ND 58mm
– Manfrotto tripod

5Dmk3 – RAW Video Test – ISO100 – Magic Lantern from Col B Cadell on Vimeo.

– Col B.

RAW test – DSLR – ISO 1600 – Noise Removal test

Another day, another test with RAW. Firstly this is the last one where I don’t support the shot etc. properly. These were purely for making sure ML is running correctly. Another use of this test was to see what footage taken at ISO1600 would look like in RAW.

The advantage of RAW being that you can shoot at high ISO and clean the image to remove most, if not all unwanted noise. Then add a little bit of film grain back in and voila!

More serious tests coming this weekend.

RAW Video – DSLR – ISO1600 noise removal test from Col B Cadell on Vimeo.

– Col B.