In-depth commercial breakdown (BOSE spec)

[@MartinNemeth]

I would really like to see your approach to colouring. 1. Premiere - Resolve workflow 2. Colouring in Resolve best practices 3. How to shoot for the look. The slo-mo shot of the talent going through the locker room and others cheering him up is mind blowing :) It is dark and moody but in the bts it's full of light. I would light that scene much darker (which would not be good in the end). So basically, how do you decide how to light / shoot the shot with the final look in mind? If only I can be part of one of your shoots and just brew coffee for you and the crew, clean up the space and learn by watching you doing your thing :)

[@langilledylan]

It's wild to me how approachable you make filmmaking look yet you deliver such quality content. You make it look so easy, and I think that's encouraging! Thanks for sharing the breakdown!

[@DannyGevirtz]

Glad to hear that dude! Thanks!

[@AutoFOCUSED.]

Your color grade was great. A rating from a professional only means so much since visual aesthetics is all a personal preference. To this day I get annoyed at people who don't like the darkness in "The Batman" movie but everyone has their own opinion. In the end, I think this is the best project you've shot that you shared with us. Love the build up like it's a championship game and ends up being some winless team and everything being overly-dramatized just for none of it mattering at all because I feel that's how we view so many of our issues in life. In hindsight, half the shit that breaks us down doesn't matter and that resonated with me as someone who's dealt with mental health issues my whole life. So in the end, a funny little commercial had deeper message to me. Great work, Danny. Much respect.

[@DannyGevirtz]

Absolutely correct across the board man!!! Thank you!

[@Jamari_Brown]

I love that you see there's always room for improvement. It's interesting to see filmmakers break down their own work and be honest about it. You're an inspiration to not only cinematographers but all artists.

[@DannyGevirtz]

Always man!!

[@OrikzHD]

4k for a production this size is SUPER cheap. To get a 7.5 rating from a professional colorist is actually a really impressive rating. You gotta think what his standards would be for a 10. Great work Danny.

[@DannyGevirtz]

Hahah for sure. Thanks man!

[@chunmanf]

Thanks for being so real and genuine Danny! Absolutely love your productions! 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

[@DannyGevirtz]

Thanks man!!

[@joepalmer5339]

Hell yeah Danny! Carlo killed this too

[@DannyGevirtz]

Yes he did!

[@saviourudo1062]

Thank you for taking us through this process and giving us a sneak peak of your time line.

[@BryceDocherty]

The best thing about your videos is how you show that no filmmaker is perfect. We have it in our minds legendary figures like Roger Deakins never make mistakes and know exactly that they are doing. We as creators are always trying to figure it out. No matter what phase we are in our journey. I love this project so much and only hope I can be as cool as Carlo one day. Sorry Danny :)

[@fausto_vfx]

The final product came out fantastic, and that grade goes harddddd!!!

[@DannyGevirtz]

Thank you man!!

[@QuinnFilmsStudio]

Great video, really inspiring. Would love to see a tutorial on your color grading process

[@DannyGevirtz]

Maybe when I get better at it!

[@BastiMark]

Crazyyy Danny, you are a so good Director and editor!! I thought this spec had a budget of minimum 10k but I see that you did it without gaining much money for your own pocket. So crazy, amazing work, keep it up!!

[@ZacharyDetton]

I love you too, Danny.

[@DannyGevirtz]

Love you more

[@JirehTorres]

May I get the link of the video regarding the macro lens filters please? Those insert shots were amazing! Thanks Danny for inspiring all of us!

[@cameranerdsmedia]

Definitely using the Gevirtz 9 for my next production.

[@DannyGevirtz]

Haha do it!

[@etorres1217]

just came across your channel tonight and already love it. Doesn't feel like the forced content that is shoved in our face lately

[@jmanrech1]

As always, thanks for sharing Danny. Love your humble, down-to-earth vibe. I think it really takes off the pressure for other filmmakers to have to have all the answers, and it really shows what filmmaking is like on most levels. I hope our paths cross one day for a collab cause I love your vibe! We've been doing a bunch of comedy shorts that we're putting out into the world on a channel and love working with all sorts of talented people.

[@KaceyBakerFilms]

Hey mate, if you’re teaching yourself resolve to grade, you would really benifit from editing in it too. Just change all of resolves quick keys to premiere’s quick keys and you’ll be off to the races. I swapped over to resolve in 2019 and find premiere really clunky and slow each time I have to go back. You’ll love it.

[@alexhartungmusic]

learned so much from you Danny! its so crazy to see how you always say "its not perfect". Man in my eyes, it's so damn perfect! but it shows the craft that goes into it, the hunger. I made a lil short film about golf, actually started playing golf just because of your video. When im editing I always think of little details that make a huge difference. So glad I found this camera passion and your channel. Thank you and your work will forever be perfect in my eyes! :) Alex

[@iamderekortiz2]

Please do a breakdown of how you do your talking head videos!! They look CRISPY!! Lighting, gear, color grading 🙏

[@DannyGevirtz]

Haha thanks man! Maybe one day

[@HeathClark]

Great work Danny, your work has inspired me to dive into making my first short film. Thanks for all your tips and bts, really makes the mountain a little smaller ❤️

[@DannyGevirtz]

Thanks brotha!!

[@AxiA]

always amazing!

[@DannyGevirtz]

Thanks dude!

[@rickpostdp]

These video's are always so helpful (and fun :)) to watch! The commercial turned out really awesome!

[@erickadjanor]

thank you Danny for this, a lot was taking from this. I wouldn't have guessed in my wildest thoughts the sound effects you used. The breakdown was phenomenal. Thanks for always inspiring me and everyone who watches your channel. Looking forward to making my very first short film

[@DannyGevirtz]

Thanks so much!!

[@erickadjanor]

@@DannyGevirtz 🙏🏽🙏🏽

[@SbrilliantBerlinCity]

best way to start monday! Thanks Danny.

[@DannyGevirtz]

Thanks so much!

[@toetav]

Once again Danny, so so dope to see you break this down. One day I would love to make anything close to this 🙌🏻

[@SPProps]

Appreciate you sharing this type of thing. Really learn a lot from watching you work and understanding your process!

[@UmbaProductions]

You are the man, Danny!

[@DannyGevirtz]

Thanks bro!

[@drack727272]

Hey Danny thanks for this amazing breakdown ! One advive for your node tree in Davinci is that your CST to convert your log footage should be at the end of the tree. It is better to keep the best dynamic range of your image !

[@DannyGevirtz]

That’s a great call! Thank you!!

[@mattfox7102]

This was really great any very informative. Would you ever make you Milanote template available?

[@Tim-Koenig]

Hey Danny, thanks again for the amazing spec ad you filmed with the intention to do a breakdown for us. Really inspiring work as always. I also would love to see your premiere pro - resolve workflow for color grading and maybe a single note breakdown of your color grading. For a non professional colorist the colors look really amazing and film like, pretty close to high end Hollywood film productions in my opinion. Keep up the amazing work dude!

[@hactrain]

Incredible. Can you please do a video on your round-a-bout from premiere to resolve and back to premiere?

[@Charliemacca89]

Hey Danny me and my film teacher 🎥 watch all your vids together I’m leaning everyday falling in love with the art love the way you do sound keep it up 👌🏼

[@DannyGevirtz]

Amazing man! Thanks so much!

[@Adam.Hughes]

Love you too.

[@DannyGevirtz]

Love you more

[@mrtievolimedia]

You inspire me a lot dude. Big love from the UK 👊🏼

[@DannyGevirtz]

Thank you so much!

[@johnpaultougan5241]

So many gems in this breakdown vid🤌👌

[@he.smile_]

Love your grade! Like someone else mentioned, you should make it easier on yourself and do all of your corrections under your Rec709 transformation! The Venice shoots a beautiful high-dynamic range log so don’t waste it 👍🏾 To make your life even better, you should start using groups (or put some of your nodes at the timeline level but if your have graphics it gets messy so I prefer using groups)! This way you can focus on your global look for the first pass and focus on your creative adjustments that affect all of your clips equally. For example your Resolve Film LUT or your blur/sharpen or your grain, etc, pretty much anything that you systematically put at the end of every clip can be used once for your entire timeline and it becomes extremely easy to tweak your whole project at once! Great work! 🔥

[@DannyGevirtz]

Thanks for the tips man!!

[@gabrielaaronmoser-diary]

Great video, thanks for creating this. Would love to see a color breakdown in resolve...

[@DannyGevirtz]

Thanks man! Maybe when I get better at it haha

[@RafalGendarz]

That was best thing on yt in 2023

[@DannyGevirtz]

Haha thank you!

[@Imageyenation]

Very fun video, bts, and breakdown! 🙌🏻🔥🙌🏻

[@DannyGevirtz]

Thank you!!

[@robdomeart]

Great as usual Danny! Learning so much from every single video you put out, the quality level is just outstanding and super inspiring. Thanks for sharing your knowledge and creativity :)

[@DannyGevirtz]

So glad to hear man! Thank you!

[@OliviaFowler00]

I am only a Freshman, but it's my dream to work in the film category. I want to be a producer but I am still trying to learn about it. I want to go to school for it but I do not know what is good for me especially when it comes to film and producing. Thank you for your tips and tricks.

[@michaelrayshard4368]

Really really appreciated this breakdown and loved the commercial. Going to try and do my own. I'm very curious about those macro lens filters that you mentioned, but I dont see an amazon link for some reason.

[@AutoFOCUSED.]

I don't know why but you calling that light "The Nine" made me happy. haha

[@DannyGevirtz]

Hahah it had the whole crew laughing

[@EnjoiPandaCow]

When you get comfortable with reslove I would love to see a tutorial explaing your node tree in more detail, coming from someon who is totally new to film and also learning resolve it would be cool to see how you went about it.

[@EnjoiPandaCow]

Or even some links to some videos you found really helpful.

[@DannyGevirtz]

I’ll definitely try to figure it out more and share!

[@walterwimmer-brown]

Hey Danny, beautiful breakdown! Love the grade you did for the spec, have you tried putting your film grain emulation before your CST? Sometimes that can make the grain feel more embedded in the image. Thanks for the vid!

[@Sayject]

Great breakdown! Thanks so much for sharing! Learning from you is really easy thank you! Keep the vids coming. Hope to film one day with you haha

[@oliverfrankphoto]

Amazing 🔥 Now I have to learn more on sound design!

[@WhySteve]

Yeah your sound design has always been great and really inspirational too!! I also personally love sound design coming from a music background, so after the final export, I always do one without music for just the sound design. Also PA-RA-METRIC Equalizer. Although, I understand the mistake seeing that people in America don't know what METRIC means 😅😅😉 Great video, like always!!!

[@sithijatishan]

Love your concept ideas Danny. Keep bring em❤

[@DannyGevirtz]

Thanks man!

[@alex_tybin]

Great as always! Keep it up, Danny!

[@basinvisual]

So rad! Love seeing the fun side of it all and that you don't need some insane $3k RGB light but instead a $9 amazon light ha! Any chance you would share the wire frame of your Millanote boards to see how you lay things out??

[@BlakeDavis42]

The 9er was sick

[@DannyGevirtz]

Haha thanks dude

[@aalooprod]

Thanks for sharing. I love you.

[@Anonymous-506]

Ohh! Amazing Danny! it's been 5 years and your channel is like almost 300k? And iam still buying my camera...lol..you deserve millions of subscribers...but I am sure I'll try to make a feature film in this life.❤

[@hmgpojsp]

Thanks for the amazing video Danny! What were the macro lens filters that you spoke about briefly? Can’t seem to find a link now

[@AmmoMX]

I freaking love you, dude!

[@TeipelFilms]

Great Breakdown! The filmprint LUT inside Resolve expects Cineon Log for the gamma curve so you would need to do a CST prior to that node. Sill came out great, though! :)

[@DannyGevirtz]

Haha didn’t I do that? Thought I did

[@TeipelFilms]

Could be that you converted into Cineon in Node 3. However, if that is the case I would still suggest you to do it right before that FilmPrint Node since Cineon is much smaller compared to the scene referred color space that the camera recorded in and you are actually limiting yourself that way.

[@Leitin]

bro thanks for make an so good and natural video, it helps a lot.

[@DannyGevirtz]

Glad to here it dude!

[@dreamvision_media]

I just wanna hang out with Danny and make movies

[@DannyGevirtz]

Hahah sounds like a plan

[@wolframmarius9009]

i allways ask myself how u get that soft look in your images? thats just such a beautiful look! thank your for all the great videos!

[@DannyGevirtz]

Thanks man!!

[@wolframmarius9009]

perhaps will u will explain some day how u get that really soft look. what would be great :) best regards from austria @@DannyGevirtz

[@danklabunde]

I'm too loyal to Epidemic Sound lol Sick to see how this came together - that short film still has some of my favorite shots of yours!

[@DannyGevirtz]

Thanks dude!

[@OliverWiehe]

Watched till the end - love the process - keep dreaming up new ideas - Go eagles! (what a game)

[@DannyGevirtz]

Go birds baby!!

[@toetav]

Could you share the link to the macro attachments?

[@PattyMcGoo]

Dream team!

[@DannyGevirtz]

Needed more Pat!

[@johnjoseph1902]

Thank You

[@DannyGevirtz]

Thank you for watching!

[@eleventhvision]

Very intact & easy to follow break down - thank you for the Inspo as always!! I absolutely love the track 'Neon Affair' and I am now plugging it into my current 90s nostalgia short that will be out in 3 days.... it's not too late to completely ditch a track right ?? lol .

[@DannyGevirtz]

Hahah it’s a gem of a song

[@V1ZNS.]

Thank you for the great videos

[@Ojini]

Always an inspiration 😊

[@DannyGevirtz]

Thanks man!

[@GottaVision]

Great video keep up the good work I enjoyed this a lot. By the way, do you mind giving me the scoop on what system you’re working off of far as the editing laptop or desktop?

[@josephlaliberty]

Love these breakdown videos. I wanted to ask, in the scene with your character walking through the locker room and his buddies "hyping" him up. Your BTS the environment looks super bright, well lit and in the edit it's dark and full of contrast. Have you ever made a video explaining how you achieve a good, dark scene? From what I understand, achieving that look mostly happens in the edit?? Thanks Danny!

[@DannyGevirtz]

We just had the camera closed down a bunch! Almost want more light than less. It’s easier to bring an image down than up

[@josephlaliberty]

@DannyGevirtz so more light and you shoot with lower exposure ? Thanks for the feedback

[@naizajn]

Superb!

[@Kayakamuy]

Thank youuuuu

[@DannyGevirtz]

Thanks Kaya!

[@ahmeed004]

miss your vids

[@TheBestFood-h2d]

I know you use black pro mist.. but would love to know what your detail is set to in SLog3/PP8 settings. Thanks bro!

[@mattcarlson12]

Such an awesome breakdown! If you're ever in Indiana and need help on a project, hit me up! 🙋🏼‍♂

[@DannyGevirtz]

Will do! Thanks Matt!

[@stuartcameron935]

You forgot to add a link for your macro lenses - let me know what you use!! thanks,

[@bellazella]

Thoroughly enjoyed this breakdown & appreciate the subtle locker squeak and whale 🐳 sounds. Thanks 🙏🏻

[@seanmusil]

Danny do you think you would ever partner with Milanote to create a template together? Would love to see that!

[@DannyGevirtz]

We’ve spoken about it together but hasn’t happened yet 🤷🏻‍♂️ maybe I’ll bring it up again

[@DamijinMyndz]

Sheesh just watched the Spec and 👌🏽

[@DannyGevirtz]

Thanks dude!

[@beaugaughran4037]

So helpful. Anyone know what macro lens filters were used (8:08)? Couldn't find them in the description.

[@SteadmanRobinson]

Great job

[@DannyGevirtz]

Thank you!

[@LowellProductions]

Great content. What is the softbox/foam you are using on the nanlight LED pole @3:00 when you are showing the BTS of the locker room scene? Sorry for the question, just love the idea of using that technique. Full Retention! Cheers Sir

[@jalenspencerfilm]

Pool Noodle!

[@DannyGevirtz]

Thanks man!! It’s just like a clear pool noodle haha

[@LowellProductions]

Heck ya! Love it! Cheers dude@@DannyGevirtz

[@LowellProductions]

so smart and super simple and cheap. Cheers @@jalenspencerfilm

[@zakidaoudi7679]

🙌🙌🙌

[@Blackdaggermedia]

Did you diffuse that tube light with a white noodle?

[@nannapne]

youre crazy good

[@DavidFaxon]

Great breakdown, nice job. What is the diffusion you guys were using on your tube light? Is that a white pool floaty, or pipe insulation? Either way it's brilliant and I want to add it to my kit. Thanks!

[@DannyGevirtz]

Thanks man! Yep just a pool noodle haha

[@DavidFaxon]

Brilliant@@DannyGevirtz

[@dylanyanes]

hey danny at like 11:03 we see the timeline at the squeak part, on audio track 1 I see an adjustment on the track. curious as to what that adjustment is. and would u say that adjustment is necessary when adding foley?

[@NiklasPennanen]

Nice!

[@asdafdsgsdfbfahdjfsdjfgaas2965]

Danny! would you ever consider using adobe audition or do you feel like premier has basically the same tools and optionality.

[@DannyGevirtz]

I would consider it, but for the most part it has what I need!

[@AdonileTheDoughnut]

Let’s goooooo

[@PurifiedDogWater]

This was so good I thought it was commissioned…

[@DannyGevirtz]

Hah thank you!

[@RipiresReviews]

great video :) very informative

[@DannyGevirtz]

Thank you!

[@Lazareditss]

Hey Danny , Which were that macro lens filter you talked about ?

[@Stedmen]

All of this with only $4k is insane!!!

[@DannyGevirtz]

Helps when guys like Carlo come through for the sheer passion of it!

[@StoriesbyDAF]

I mean the cameras alone would eat up 4k. Most of Cast and Crew must have been working pro bono.

[@MichielVenmans]

Hi! I was wondering how you finance these projects? Is it all your own personal investment or did you partner up with someone for gathering a budget?

[@DannyGevirtz]

It’s money I use from my personal income. A lot of which comes from my KZbin sponsorships like Artlist

[@MichielVenmans]

Thanks for responding Danny, much appreciation from Brussels!@@DannyGevirtz

[@kashifswaynerobinson]

how do you edit in premier and them bring the timeline to davinci to color it??

Whats the macro filter?

[@yomfilms]

Hi Danny ! I made a video inspired by your « An Ordinary Day in 2023 » and I hope you’ll like it ❤

[@DannyGevirtz]

Haven’t seen it yet!

[@yomfilms]

@@DannyGevirtz Can’t wait to hear what you will think about it; you’re an inspiration Danny

[@FlavourTV]

What the apps name?