Death of a Salesman

Adaptation of Death of a salesman.

The opening is taken right from The Social Network.

Things to note: We were shooting on an EXTREMELY tight time frame therefor there are several mistakes, errors, and sacrifices:

1. I wasn't able to get nearly enough shots I would have liked for the opening scene.

2. The cropping for the anamorphic aspect ratio in one of the shots in the first conversation is off.

3. The slo mo is bad quality because I only have Final Cut Express on a 2006 iMac with 1 GB of RAM, so in order to do slo mo I downloaded the trial of Adobe Premiere Pro did it in that and then exported, which has dramatically slowed down the mac even more.

4. The audio in the scene where Willy get's fired is horribly distorted because I have an Canon 60d which does not have an audio output for monitoring, so I used a mixer which I didn't realize was also an amplifier and the audio I was monitoring was not the actual feed into the camera, but rather a direct feed from the mic.

5. The picture quality is really grainy in the office scene as well because that was the first day of shooting and I didn't realize how to use the ISO, shutter speed and aperture together until after we shot that scene.

6. All the scenes shot in the house are shot in 30 fps by accident instead of 24fps, because after shooting everything else I shot the opening montage in 60fps and then when i went back to change it to 24 I must have selected 30 instead. I'm surprised I didn't notice it just on the LCD, but whatever.

7. The music pops alot, I'm not sure why, it's especially noticeable in the montage. It doesn't in iTunes but does once I bring it into FCE.

8. The scenes outside didn't color correct very well because it was so bright, I'll remember next time I shoot outside to do it when it's overcast, which actually does color correct very well, which you can see in my 'Canon 60d Cinematic Look' video. Either overcast, or get some huge ass diffusion sheets, flags, and reflectors.

9. I only had two lights to work with as well a crew that consisted of myself and the boom operator most of the time. So lighting isn't spectacular.

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[mologna26]

Man david fincher did a really great job thinking of that scene!

[ddfilm92]

@mologna26 i don't know why but i never saw you comment till just now. Haha yea, i kinda took it shot for shot....

[papposwing14]

About the thing u mentioned I only spotted like 3  or 2 it was minor stuff that only editors notice!!!

[papposwing14]

IT WAS AN AWESOME MOVIE LIKE HOLY SHIT the transitions were amazing.... But you might consider new female actors cuz the girl HAS TO GO my friend... I didn't believe her roll not a single bit

[theSoulcircus]

This is really good!!!!