Next Moment Media's video: Spectrum of Lights

This piece primarily designed to test the Sony A7s and new Atomos Shogun in very low light. However it also has a personal meaning that any parent with a child (especially one with special needs) will understand. Note the title and the subtle meanings buried within the imagery in this piece. Filmed at the Stone Zoo “Zoolights” experience in Stoneham MA. Technical details: I took out the Sony A7s out with a Sony Zeiss 24-70 F4 OIS lens with the Atomos Shogun slapped on top recording 4K and film at stupidly high ISOs. All hand held, with the camera strapped to my neck and the Shogun on top of the camera with the excellent Manfrotto 492LCD heavy duty ball mount. While you can get away with this, I recommend using a cage for any real length of time. This was an extremely low light situation, and honestly I don’t think 4K helped much here as the detail in the recording was reduced due to the low light. I shot this anywhere from 12,000 to 80,000 ISO, at F5.6 or F4. Neat Video noise reduction was applied to many of the shots. Graded with Filmconvert, which I might add can be quite slow in FCPX with 4K ProRes on an 8-core D700 Mac Pro. The actual rendering isn’t slow, but the UI slows way down once the filter is applied if you try to edit anything. I will be transitioning to Resolve for CC in the future. One of the issues with filming at such insane ISOs is that any light source will blow out when you are trying to capture the shadow detail. The 422 high bitrate ProRes from the Shogun helped in this regard, but you can only push 8 bits so far. And over-exposed is over-exposed. Situations like this really scream for more bits. The opening shot had blinking of LEDs that I could not tune out, but was left in as a story element. I had one “blue frame” on my shots (see the Atomos community boards for info about his horrid bug). For the rest of my Atomos Shogun review - the bad and the ugly and the good, see this post: http://www.anticipatemedia.com/blog/2014/12/24/atomos-shogun-4k-recorder-review MUSIC: "Changing Times" by Nick Hinton - via Vimeo Music Store