Origin is an experimental, short macro film shot entirely on DJI Pocket 2 camera
Origin
The idea of this experimental macro video was born from lack of traveling due to certain events in 2020 and desire to showcase the capability of the awesome Pocket 2 camera as not only a great blogging device, a good b-roll camera, or super gimbal for travel, architecture, etc short films, but also an amazingly capable machine for creative experiment right at your home.
We use different inks, alcohol, soaps, and other different mixture of household chemicals for creating liquid art of flow and movements.
It was a challenging but really fun project as we have never shot macro with inks before nor have we done it with Pocket 2 (I believe this type of video with ink is the first to be shot on this device). It took us 3 weeks of pure experiments, try and error, to get the right effect with inks and chemicals.
And 1.5 weeks of shooting after that, using DJI Pocket 2 camera with and without a macro lens to gather more than 7 hours of footage (690 GB of clips).
The post-production alone took 1.5 weeks for the entire Origin short film.
An interesting fact that only about 1.6% of all shot clips went into the film.
Surprisingly, it took less effort to CC and grade those shots, since the actual image was very good to start with. I use Davinci Resolve 17 beta which has a Color Warper tool. Some noise reduction was used as well as a glow plugin to give the color a bit more “pop”.
No significant color manipulation has been necessary since all colours were done right in the camera.
Post production workflow
Behind the scenes time-lapse on post production phase of Origin experimental macro short film for DJI, shot on Pocket 2 camera. Video includes editing, music mixing, color correction, grading, fixing details etc. Software used, Davinci Resolve 17, Adobe Audition, Adobe After Effects, Adobe Photoshop
