Simon Reynolds

Thanks Igor, we will certainly post a link as soon as the video is done!

Here are a few more screengrabs and BTS shots:

Hi there,

My brother and I just finished shooting a video for a friend of ours. She is at college studying music, and needed some promo material for the web etc. We also needed to record the song to be used in the video, so we booked a rehearsal studio room for two days, recorded the song, shot video, and took promo photos. No budget, two crew, and a lot of begging, stealing and borrowing of kit, as you would expect!

We used the HVX200, and the lighting kit consisted of a mini red-head kit (650w) and a Kino Flo DivaLite 400. We also had some Dedo lights. We monitored on a Swit monitor. There was just two of us on the crew, and a make-up artist.

Here are some screengrabs:

And some production stills:

We were asked to make this documentary by Creative Video to showcase the Sony XDCAM kit they had provided for the shoot. They also wanted to showcase how a typical, low budget music video might get put together. The documentary was produced to coincide with an article that CVP had produced for their new AV magazine The Iris, and also to go on their website.

You can see the final video:here (10 mins)

Some more screens and photos:

Hi Brandon,

I've found it, it was on Motionographer.com;

OK Go

Enjoy!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V2fpgpanZAw&feature=channel

 

Brilliant music video, but I've been wondering for a month or two what camera was used. I thought I heard right after the video was release earlier in the summer that it was a 5D, but the ramping leads me to think otherwise. It definitely looks to have the compression artifacting of a DSLR in some places (of course that could be the export quality)

 

Can't seem to find a "making of" or stills of the shoot, but according to Wiki it was an 18 hour shot WITH the band, about 9 days in all. Impressive stuff

 

Guesses?

Sony EX3

Phantom for the high speed stuff

DSLR for the sunset time lapse at the end.

There is an article on the web somewhere, but can't remember where it is now.

Given that the lyric is quite slow, did you think about shooting it overcranked with the music run at double speed, or whatever?

 

Being as an HVX will do that?

 

P

Hi Phil,

We actually did do that quite a lot, a lot of the big close ups are 50fps, and the wide shots in the bathroom with the window.

Simon

Here are some screenshots from the video, and I've also included some 'before & afters' of the colour grade. The video was edited in FCP, and graded in Color.

Can you tell us more about the motion control slider rigs that you and other people are using? Is this off-the-shelf homemade parts or some sort of product?

I'd like to know this too.

Stunning BTS shots by the way, especially some of the sunset shots on the first page with the two cameras side by side.

Simon

Hmm the time code Iphone stuck to the slate is pretty cool, is that a minjack to lemo cable?

Hey,

No it's just a mini jack to mini jack. The timecode you see, is a pre-made movie with the song as the audio track. We were outputting the audio down the cable for playback. I don't know if there are any apps that can allow iPods to read or generate timecode, but this solution is fine for music videos.

My brother and I were asked to shoot a behind the scenes documentary of a music video being shot in and around Bristol. We were using the Sony EX1R in 1080p, while the main unit were shooting on the Sony PMW-350 XDCAM. Some of the video was shot in a studio, and some on location. I shall post some screen grabs, and the finished documentary when it's done, but here are some on set stills for now.

Hello everyone. My brother and I have just finished up our 3rd ever music video, our second time using the HVX200.

The video was for a friend, who wanted something simple to use for online promotion. We had 1 HVX200, a handful of lights, a DIY timecode slate, 4 crew and some disused police cells in Bristol for one day. My brother and I co-direct our videos, but on this shoot, I acted mainly as DP, while my brother did most of the directing. We also had an AD/Clapper, and a playback operator. This isn't a day job for any of us, although we work in related fields, and this was the first time we had rented a location and lit it from scratch.

As the location was run by volunteers we couldn't get in until just before lunchtime, so were pushed for time to get what we wanted. Lots of ideas got canned because of time, we wished to shoot more of the venue itself for instance, but nonetheless we're still pleased with what we got. You can see the video here

Some production photos:

As a stills shooter film all the way. I *heart* silver halides.

;)

why did you guys go with capturing into FCP instead of p2 cards?

The simple answer is we didn't have any! The person who we had loaned the camera from had just bought it second hand quite cheaply but without the P2 cards.

For our situation, capturing live straight into FCP suited us quite well - no need to stop shooting to unload video from cards etc. Being in a relatively confined space meant being tethered to a laptop wasn't really an issue. We had a long BNC running from the camera to the directors monitor anyway.

Here are some colour corrected screen grabs.

Simon

Hello everyone. My brother Matthew and I just wrapped our second ever music video on Saturday.

The band are Blue Coma from the UK, about to release their debut E.P.

We shot in a warehouse in Herefordshire, UK.

We used the Panasonic HVX200 and captured live straight into Final Cut Pro via Firewire onto RAID 1 Drives and backed up periodically. There were occasional errors with capturing, but we think this is down to the Drives going into 'standby'. We shot at 720p.

We had three Arri redheads andmam KinoFlo DivaLite 400. We went for a very backlit silhouette look.

This was our first time shooting with this camera and are very pleased with the results so far.

Here are a few production stills and screen grabs from Final Cut Pro.

We will post more stills, screen grabs and the final cut when it's done.

Crew:

Directors:Simon Reynolds & Matthew Reynolds

Assistant Director: Samantha Riley.

Special Thanks to: Cue Media Ltd. James Bennett & VMJ Services.

Simon