LIFE OF A CINEMATOGRAPHER | SHORT FILM & COMMERCIAL

[@djsfilm]

dude its so cool to see you grow and really become one of the best DP's on the east coast. God has given you a gift and its really inspiring to watch and know your humility, keep going!

[@carlostigs]

Thank you dude, this really means a lot. I appreciate this

[@XylographFilms]

Carlo, it's truly been an honor to witness our shared growth on this filmmaking journey. Your ability to steward others and to become a leader has been inspiring. This story holds a special place in our hearts and having you alongside us made it even more meaningful. We're excited for the moment this film takes flight and the impact it will have on others!! With love, Daeil + Melanie

[@carlostigs]

Love you both ❤️

[@jerseywood]

OOF!! "I lost the footage" ranks pretty high on the "famous last words" list.

[@timdanyo898]

Keeping it cool and under control after a data loss is significant next level professionalism. Thanks for your reminder and example.

[@lukerodelyfilms]

Dude your calmness is a virtue, something I'm trying to do more on set. Well done for not throwing anyone under the bus, it's something I've seen DPs do and has just shut down any chance of recovering the day. Definitely trying to mirror myself after you in terms of demeanor and clarity of vision. Well done it's a pleasure witnessing your journey bro all the way from Sydney, Aus.

[@ptw_cine]

There is nothing more valuable thing than learning from accident, really appreciate your sharing, amazed attitude and gorgeous work as always, great video man!

[@carlostigs]

Couldn’t agree more

[@trelitri]

Grande Carlo! Un grandissimo in bocca al lupo

[@yusufermis4499]

Your insights are always very eye opening and informative Carlo. Thank you for putting out these videos on here!

[@bephrem]

8:21 😂😂 * carlo screaming internally (politely) *

[@carlostigs]

Lol

[@gilmergutierrez1289]

El grito de terror que dí cuando dijiste que se perdió todo el contenido de la mañana :(

[@carlostigs]

lol same

[@tpain525]

Didnt have to worry about the camera, and the media got corrected LMAOOO but sounds you guys handled it awesome, congrats on keeping your composer!

[@FarmerE]

Thank you so much for sharing, and I´m so glad it worked out for the better!

[@carlostigs]

Us too!

[@PurifiedDogWater]

Came here from Danny’s behind the scenes video. Love it!

[@ScottBell]

Oh man, footage loss is so brutal. Been there. "You almost want to jump off a really tall building" I felt this so hard and the way you said it still made me laugh out loud. Way to make it through and recover the shoot. Always appreciate your vids and you are killing it with the podcast!

[@IrwinOchoa]

Carlo you forgot to mentioned that when you went to LA in October you also did a Q&A at DFI rental house which I got the opportunity to meet you in person, it was a pleasure meeting you and listening to the advice/tips you gave during Q&A. Also thanks for giving me advice when I ask you a question 1 on 1. I don't know if you remember but I was the one who mentioned to you that I finally got the opportunity to DP a project at my film school. I learned a lot from that experience, I'm no where near close to be called a DP yet but hopefully in the future I will with the experiences I learn on my own plus the things you teach all of us on KZbin because speaking for myself the tips & lessons you show us in your channel has help me a lot. Like I told you in person I will tell you again in the comment section, next year you are hitting 100k subs!!!

[@carlostigs]

Ahhh that’s right how could I have forgotten. I do remember you, thanks again for coming and thank you for the kind works! It means a lot to hear that

[@saltdogmedia4204]

Venice owner/op/AC here.. Had the exact same thing happen. A staff member elbowed the battery mount and shut down during recording.. If you had put the card back in the camera will ask you if you want to restore the media.. yes scary,, but if you select yes. . restore.. in my experience it has saved the shoot. and the footage was all there until the second power down occurred.

[@carlostigs]

I don’t even think we got a restore option. It was the card that was faulty unfortunately

[@ComunityShots]

Had a very similar experience shooting on a much smaller rig (bmpcc6k) where the sensor had a small dust ring around it that we did not see until halfway through the day. Our AC started freaking out but after we calmed him down, we made the necessary adjustments to push forward and reshoot those scenes. Still NOT an ideal situation, but we rose to the challenge. I empathize with your situation fully and thank you for sharing!

[@carlostigs]

Great story thanks for sharing

[@Eyeofkamau]

You’re the best, man. Love your mindset and the way you see the world.

[@carlostigs]

I appreciate that!

[@LucizenVisuals]

great video! i appreciate hearing your vulnerability regarding the media loss, its good to hear the ups and downs sometimes

[@carlostigs]

Absolutely!

[@Mattspeak86]

This is great! Thank you for all the information you’re sharing… very inspirational!!

[@carlostigs]

You are so welcome!

[@bkfxstudios1647]

Great video brother. Every adversity comes with a seed of equal or greater benefit. I think we all have had that oh sh*t moment. It’s one of the worst feelings but like you said, stay calm and focus on the solution!

[@carlostigs]

That’s right

[@camerachronicles7]

Just had a rough shoot yesterday for a commercial gig and this is everything I needed to hear. Thanks!

[@carlostigs]

keep ya head up

[@bephrem]

12:28 huge huge leap heaving you completely focused on the monitor

[@carlostigs]

100%

[@rayt_visual]

Wonderful mindset you shared. I always settle for a positive attitude on set regardless of the bumps that always happen on set. And yea, when I first stepped out of the camera and had cam ops ... it opened my DP mind as well. It's awesome. I now try to push for a cam op as often as I can on all of my narrative projects. Always enjoy hearing fellow DPs like yourself share the experiences. Keep on pushing.

[@OscarCloud]

Mad respect to you for handling the situation well- nothing worse than losing your footage but you just have to see it as a challenge to reshoot it even better

[@carlostigs]

Exactly

[@filmmakerevolution]

Just came from Danny’s video, great stuff! All the films and the spec ad look awesome

[@carlostigs]

Awesome, thank you!

[@romain_do]

- How many plants do you want ? - Yes

[@carlostigs]

Exactly

[@JeffHanesworld]

Thank you for this videos man 🙏🏻

[@GodFearNman]

Great video, Congratulations on your new home. You are very talented, thanks for sharing with us!

[@carlostigs]

Thanks so much! 😊

[@nombimsweli8643]

I was trying so hard to concentrate on the video but THAT JACKET 😮 oh my goodness , so cool where is it from? Literally had to watch twice to actually pay attention (yay for watch time i guess😂) but seriously Carlos you're such a big inspiration ❤

[@A103Studios]

You did a short film in my hometown, I’m mad I missed that experience #Buffalo,NY

[@HakimZziwaTips]

Totally agree, having Cam Ops as a DP makes execution better especially if they resonate with your photography vision. Great honest videos bro, keep sharing, we appreciate the honesty in them.

[@carlostigs]

Thank you!

[@MattAitia]

Dude good on you with handling that situation. Very dope to see your growth as a DP!

[@carlostigs]

Thanks brother

[@Suyorukun]

Love your videos! So much to learn

[@carlostigs]

Glad you like them!

[@bespinfilms-c5m]

Thanks for the amazing video Gian!!!! Always great to hear you sharing!!!!

[@carlostigs]

My pleasure!!

[@MaikHansen]

just love your videos!!

[@carlostigs]

Glad you like them!

[@OldshoeFilmsProductions]

Great post, thanks mate.

[@carlostigs]

Glad you enjoyed it

[@bieta.]

You are an Inspiration fr

[@carlostigs]

:)

[@daviddeclan]

Waited long. Great to see you back with beautiful projects.

[@carlostigs]

Thank you very much!

[@SolisCreative]

Fire

[@jijivishant]

Great

[@stephenfranklin5842]

Man, Losing footage cuts like a knife. Great video

[@carlostigs]

Brutal

[@AhmdHocni]

it's nice to see u u r my role model.. from Egypt

[@carlostigs]

Thank you!

[@robbieloughery]

Giannnn, another beautiful video as per usual, couldn’t be happier about your KZbin return but also in knowing you have been busy in the field throughout your digital hiatus. Strange question but what brand is your black utility vest?! Been trying to find the perfect one for a while and yours seems like THAT one.

[@carlostigs]

Amazon fishing vest hahaha

[@robbieloughery]

@@carlostigs thank you!!! Adding to cart as I type this.

[@rvquire]

Thanks for your sharings! 🙌🏻

[@cfrostmedia]

Love this video man! Really inspiring and good information to take in. A lot of things can go wrong during production just something that everyone has to take in when they get into this felid, all though i've never experienced corruption from a shoot *knock on wood* I still couldn't imagine how deviating it is to hear those words that nobody wants to hear. I hope to be in a position where your at doing this fulltime I haven't gotten to that point just yet I still need to branch out more make more connections and most importantly get more of the business side of things handled and gather more information.

[@carlostigs]

Thanks man, it’s not fun at all lol. You’ll get there my friend

[@bephrem]

What I think might have happened was that the card was being written to / read from when the camera shut off. This would leave the card in a "weird state" where internal data on where files begin & end (in the huge pool of 1's & 0s, binary data, on the card) gets scrambled / becomes incorrect. The scenes were likely still on the card (unless the actual data was wiped) - it's just that you'd need special software to recover the right 1's & 0's from this big pool (certain software can detect patterns of compression algorithms to find file starts and ends / reconstruct the file "index"). But the files can't/won't show up in a file explorer (like Finder, etc) since the file index is broken. Very sure the data was still on the card, but would take special means to recover. There's some good softwares online to recover data if you still have the card & haven't formatted it again. (I've faced this before & went through a recovery, don't mean to be false hope, but just putting forth a hypothesis).

[@davidperkinsdp]

I second that. As long as it hasn't been formatted or deleted through camera or computer the footage would still be there. It's good to know that if a spinning hard drive is wiped the majority of the files can be recovered as long as it hasn't been used to write new data as deletion is more of a command process to make room when you start to add new data. With any sort of solid state media if the files are deleted or formatted then the files will not be recoverable as it instantly deletes the files. The software I use is R-Studio and it allows you to go in and change those 1's and 0's to fix broken files. I can't say I've done that before but the software has saved me a couple of times when a hard drive has been wiped or a memory card has been corrupted.

[@carlostigs]

We actually sent the card to Sony and it was due to a card we received that was not a legitimate Sony card so it was faulty

[@bephrem]

@@carlostigs ok cool 👍

[@davidperkinsdp]

@@carlostigs That's unfortunate, but I think your video is great talking about moving forward when you face something like that. You're doing great!

[@IanSPeterson]

My guess is you actually can recover that footage. I had a similar situation with an Alexa codex and we sent the card into codex and got the footage back. Always worth a shot. Sometimes controllers fail but memory doesn’t. But it’s awesome that it worked out and I of course don’t know the full situation

[@carlostigs]

We sent to Sony and it wasn’t recoverable. The card itself was corrupted and defective

[@IanSPeterson]

@@carlostigs damn that's horrible but congrats on making it work! Your career success is inevitable and so deserved. Love your videos!

[@joehill9720]

my favorite cinematography channel for dealing with practicality and logistics. You and wandering DP are leagues ahead. do you have any lighting resources/channels you learn from?

[@carlostigs]

I appreciate that thank you

[@LarkinVisuals]

EVERYBODY. GAIN HAS POSTED.

[@carlostigs]

Thank god

[@mradriiiian]

Frist of all welcome back and thank you for that story and advice! :) I'm just now in the position that I have one or two people helping with lighting and everything and I'm looking very much forward leading a big team. It always seems so exciting when I see it 13:56 this got me scared.. he just let go of the camera ;-;

[@carlostigs]

Thanks! Haha he had it covered

[@user-my1vs2hv6h]

Good job

[@carlostigs]

Thanks

[@jambred]

Great vid again Carlo. Question...why wasn't data recovery an option? That has happened to me on set once and our DIT started to recover the footage on set.

[@carlostigs]

Card was corrupted and faulty we sent to Sony and it wasn’t recoverable

[@streaminglabtv1728]

👏

[@streaminglabtv1728]

😍💯💥👌👏🙌

[@israelfilmz127]

I am really happy this guy is completed he dates women I was kinda 🤔 but now I even feel like subscribing to his channel 🙌🙌👑

[@carlostigs]

No idea what to make of this

[@moreirabarretoportfolio]

first like, then play

[@eugeneiii9564]

Great advice, thank you for the video. Does the media failure make you second guess the Venice or do you chalk it up to a freak accident?

[@carlostigs]

It was actually due to a faulty card we sent to Sony

[@eugeneiii9564]

@@carlostigsthanks for the reply. Also, I know you’ve touched on this in previous videos but a dedicated video about choosing your crew for projects would be very helpful. I could listen to you break down who you choose and why based on the end of this video and your experience with your operator.

[@goforthmiguel]

bro your fit is clean hahah where did you get those pants def need them when I am on set!

[@carlostigs]

Zara!

[@GustavoSalun]

[@Juniorbarreraa]

W

[@Ian-pn9ff]

inspiring! question: are you using a specific app when you are looking at a shot on your phone? I noticed a lot of B-roll of you looking through your phone...

[@carlostigs]

Artemis pro!

[@WillJauregui]

where in nj?

[@carlostigs]

Secret

[@bephrem]

😂

[@mikydubYT]

🤌

[@davidschwan]

Nice to see a new video from you

[@carlostigs]

Thanks!