Episode 64: SD Card Problems

From Singapore, Griffin describes two recent problems he’s encountered with SD cards. Plus, your questions about the visual grammar of storytelling, pulling focus with electronic lenses, and the lenses I used on my latest film from Japan.

Academy Award®-winner for Best Documentary Feature, THE FOG OF WAR is the story of America as seen through the eyes of the former Secretary of Defense under President Kennedy and President Johnson, Robert S. McNamara 2003 Sony Pictures Classics Inc. All Rights Reserved.

Directed by Errol Morris, The Fog of War is a documentary that features a special camera device called the Interrotron, which allowed former U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara to speak directly into the camera during his interviews.

Amy and I are in Japan on business. It's our first visit to this beautiful country, so we took the Shinkansen train to Kyōto to wander the Yasaka Shrine area. We also stayed in a traditional ryokan-style hotel room. Here's a quick edit of some footage I captured.

For the footage I shot in Kyoto, Japan, I relied on three Panasonic lenses—the 42.5mm f/1.2, 25mm f/1.4, and 8–18mm f/2.8–4. For Panasonic GH5 V-Log footage, I’ve enjoyed a LUT called VLog_to_V709_Varicam, included in this free zip file of LUTs created by Mitch Lally.

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Upcoming workshop in Los Angeles
PHOTOCON LA 2018 is a three-day photo and cinema learning event in Los Angeles, which opens with my keynote Traveling Light While Filmmaking on June 8, 2018.

Massachusetts Special Olympics video gig
If you’re interested in helping film the Massachusetts Special Olympics in Boston June 9–10, or the Cruiser Convoy in Mansfield, Braintree, Sagamore Beach, Danvers, or Reading, email Bruce Goguen at gig@EventsOnDVD.com