Hi Everyone,
First of all, I would like to thank everyone for the great responses. I'm one of the people on Daniel's crew, and we are excited about trying to get into the industry. I'm glad we got some great responses, b/c in a way it brought us down to earth a little bit where we didn't get in way over our heads right out of the gate and ruin our whole perception of what film making is like.
As for equipment we have, I saw someone ask about our tripods. We have 2 Manfrotto 3001BN's with Manfrotto 501HDV liquid heads. Our cameras are 2 Canon XHA-1's and 2 Canon GL-2's and the other one Daniel had listed. Shotgun mics are Rode NTG-2 and Sennheiser EW100 G2 for lavaliers. Lighting equipment is a category we fall short in at the moment, but we do have plans to improve it. We only have standard head lamps that attach to the cameras for the time being. (We shoot wedding videos normally, is where the compilation of equipment came from).
I just wanted to say hi and list some of our equipment to see if it is adequate. I'm sure we will have many more questions to come. Does anyone have experience with poor man's steady cam or personal steady cam creations of their own? The harnesses can get pricey quick and we'd rather not dump money into that right away if there are acceptable alternatives. Once again, thanks for all the replies.
