Behind the lens with Cândido Ferraris
Let's get to know the story of a Brazilian who has been standing out in SL with his work as photographer and filmmaker
Automatically translated from the original.
THROUGH THE RAILS CANDIDE LENS
At the beginning of the year and 1896, shortly after the invention of the cinematographer, with exhibitions in Rio de Janeiro. The first filming on national soil, "Vista da Bahia de Guanabara", took place on June 19, 1898 by Afonso Segreto. The Brazilian cinema evolved from documentary and short fiction records (1908) to popular chantadas (the 30-50s), the revolutionary Cinema Novo (the 60s) and the Resumption (the 90s), consolidating itself today with acclaimed productions.
The years have passed and with that absolutely everything has evolved, nothing in time and SL would not be out of it. We have many events in our “little world” and record them is always the will of the creators.
Weddings, shows, parades, birthdays, engagements, the birth of children... all of this and much more can be recorded by filming and photos within the SL, several professionals do this kind of work recording the happy moments of the inhabitants of our metaverse. One of these professionals I had the opportunity to interview at the PAPO DE SL and we will know the look of Cândido Ferraris behind the lenses.
Candido Ferraris is a videomaker and photographer active in the virtual world of Second Life born May 3, 2007. He is known for creating videos of events and celebrations within the game, such as weddings, births, concert coverage, birthdays and parties in general. Candido also has a presence on YouTube, where he shares his work and experiences from Second Life. In addition, it offers video-addic service teaching to make photos, videos and optimize viewers for this.
He came from Real Life with the luggage of video editor and amateur filmmaker. In the 90th decade, he converted videos from VHS to DVD and edited these videos. Besides filming Surgery for Ortotics and Prostheses. And he came to Second Life with this knowledge.
After a year of SL that came the opportunity to make a small video, at the time he had a computer with 1GB graphics card of memory. He made a dance shot, a waltz at Avalon Castle. This video he no longer finds, as it was published on Google Videos (platform discontinued for arrival of Youtube).
He spent time making videos tests without publishing, from 2007 to 2010. It started with the Youtube Channel on January 23, 2008.
But the beginning of the video was from a customer's first video, a delivery on May 22, 2011 (Play Voir's birth).
Lack of maturity with SL graphics, videos were not shadows, blurry depth and the rate of FPS (Frames per Second) were very low ranging from 4 to 10 FPS (To be based, a HD video should be higher than 30fps). Lag always did and always was the stone in the filmmakrers' shoes.
At first he had no help from other films, but they had some filmsmakers that inspired him. He always liked watching SL videos, besides inspiring, motivating. That's why he has video-dics on the YouTube channel and teaches him how to make photos and videos.
SL is always improving and computers have to walk together. Today, the one to follow has to upgrade processor and graphics card. And with the viewers' practice and resources, you can bypass Lag a little.
Speaking of viewer, he uses the Black Dragon for everything.
He filmed some major events such as SL Birthday (Editions 18, 19, 21 and 22), The Viral Voice, Smokefest, Rockefeller Awards, The Divas at Rockefeller, Crack DEN, Apothecary, Crash Dance Club... among others
The events of SL Birthday and Smokefest are the most sought after.
They're looking for him more to shoot parties, eventually a wedding or a birth. He's done a lot of filming for stores and shopping events, but nowadays he's got a lot of vloggers who do.
He has filmed parties with more than 100 avatars both Brazilian and foreign, lately Brazilian events have filled the parties a lot.
The gringos are more direct in the matter of negotiating, speaking the value and accepted or not. Brazilians bargain, tell dramas and cry a lot.
There are always missteps in filming where Candido depends on third parties and needs direction. In marriages for example, where you have to coordinate the entrance of godparents, dominies and so on. This is the kind of PR that has to be directed to filming, filming should be a priority.
I'm guessing you gave him a bad thing was a wedding. In the middle of the shoot, the video board burned. Just like that to upgrade.
He has a lot of fun with the footage and he also gets stressed. At every event there's something funny that happens. But always technical problems. There are situations where he keeps mumbling: Why did this godfather leave the pose? The little lady doesn't fit the hover height, he calls it the flying children. The bride falls all the time... And in this he loses morale and curses people without need (imagine if voice is open?). One day he said he's gonna record what happens on the other side of the PC on the bottom of the footage, that's gonna be hilarious, and it can roll a cancellation.
He says for him, there's no competition. He has allies in the filmmaker community, one helps the other as he can. And he's happy when a colleague gets some prize.
He's already won some contest awards as well as filmmakers' community.
In 2020, with the video "TC Group Biker", he won the first place prize for the store (Turlaccor Custombike)
In 2022, he won the Best Innovator Award for the SLVCG Best Of 2022 Award.
2023 - Rockefeller Awards - Best Filmmaker
2024 - SLVCG Best Of 2024 Award - Best Live Event Director
For you who think about recording videos, don't think too much, take the first step and do the first, and keep doing more, because every video made is a different experience and with practice comes excellence.
www.youtube.com/@candidoferraris
Joined January 23, 2008
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867 videos
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