A friend of mine recently alerted me to this conversation and I thought I'd take a minute to say hello and offer some more F23 music videos and info...
The Thursday video "Ladies and Gentlemen: My Brother, the Failure" was the first music video ever shot with the F23. Since then the camera has become an almost standard for music videos that can't afford film. And with music video budgets dropping daily, shooting music videos in HD is becoming more and more common place.
Anyone interested in some real world insight to the Sony F23 can check out the Studio Monthly July 2008 Article "Shadows + Light: How the Sony F23 captured the look of old film..." The article discusses my use of the F23 on two other music videos.
You can read the article online at: studiodaily.com.
You can view the music videos being discussed in the article on my website: jonfordham.com
Jigsaw Soul "Cockroach Hotel"
(note: the black & white flashback sequences were shot on 16mm and transferred to HDCAM)
Chrisette Michele "Love Is You"
Tech Specs for both videos:
Sony F23 / SRW-1 1080/23.98P
Zeiss Digi Primes
4:2:2 HDCAM-SR
1080/23.98P DVCPROHD post
In regards to finding information about music video production, I recommend videostatic.com. VS doesn't list cameras and formats used to create the videos, but it does offer who's who behind the videos. Directors, DP's, Editors, Producers, Production Companies, etc. If you want to know what's going on in the music video world and who's making the videos, you gotta suscribe to Video Static!
Jon
