Yuki Noguchi

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Science of Love Ep1

Last year (2013), I shot this successful web series called Science of Happiness with my good friend Mike Bernstein. The first episode of Science of Happiness has more than 2.5 million hits which is amazing number considering that the show does not feature any celebrities or anything really but our contents.

So, this year, we are coming out with our new show (we call it season 2) Science of Love. In January, we shot three episodes at YouTube stage. It was really challenging shoot for me cuz we do shoot a lot of coverage. If you doubt any part of the show is not real, you are wrong. It is all real people experiencing all real stuff with real emotions. They have no idea what they are getting into before they come into the stage. So, that requires a lot of planning ahead and lots of shooting time. Pretty much there is no cut for us once someone start the experience.

We shot on x3 Canon...

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Kid’s Oscar

My friend Ethan Cushing hit me up for a cute sketch shoot few weeks back. I must say it was not an easy shoot with kids. Their attention span is pretty short and energy level is just incredibly high or low. Hard to keep them on marks. They can barely remember lines, so once we get them on set, pretty much there is minimum lighting change or minimum time to tweak anything. But we finished it and it is getting good hits on the internet. Look like people are liking it. Here is the spot.

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Black Magic Pocket Camera + Speed Booster

Here is the screen shot from my BMPCC speed booster + Sigma 18 - 35mm T1.8. It was shot on log but I applied some LUT to make it a bit more viewable. I was pretty surprised at how sensitive BMPCC+SB is.
In this picture, my friend Colin in the picture was lit by his car LED light, which was pretty bright, but everything else was lit by the existing parking lot lights. I am surprised how much details we got in his shadow side.

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Here is another picture from the parking lot. Again, there is only the LED light from the car.

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I think the BMPCC+SB can be something amazing for the night time cinematography. Especially shooting in the city, the existing light level will be sufficient background light. The day we have to start taking out some street lights cuz they are too bright is getting close.

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