Documentary work for my (very) Small winery

[IanB]

Just wanted to give everyone a chance to see some documentary style work I have done for my small winery. We make honey-wine out of local New England honey and fruit. Turning these local ingredients into local wine is my second job, and hopefully in 3 years be my full-time job! For now, we have only just begun our first batch 4 weeks ago, so the wine is very much still bulk-aging.

We make honey wine, and I am a member of the community here so I wanted to share. Please feel free to make comments 'here' on DVXUser as to technical comments, and wine related ones on the Vimeo site. Technical details for those who want to know, kit= GH13, ATW-1823, AT-803b lav, 50mm SSC FD, Schneider Cinegon 20mm, Arriflex adapter, FD Adapter, H4n, Sony Vegas Pro.



http://blog.isaaksofsalem.com/2010/0...w-england.html

And of course the direct Vimeo link

[David_L]

I believe the 'weed' is called Queen Ann's Lace. I like the shots of the bee's. If you want to use this as a selling tool then I would recommend boiling it down to a minute or maybe two. Curious people are far more likely to watch a shorter piece. Best of luck.

[IanB]

David, I agree 100% it needs to be widdled down to be used as a selling tool. 1 minute may be the max, maybe 1:20. (wine is a bit slower for some people) Right now this is just about education (which it is still to long) but most readers of the blog stay on the blog for 2:52 seconds (average time) so hopefully I will get the benefit of the doubt and they will watch most of it, either way, any communication as to what is going on out there when it comes to local wine is better than nothing!

I also think you are correct about the flower! Glad I know what it is now. In future in-prompt-to shots I will be sure to mention it and get things down to 1 minute ish.

The bee shots are supposed to be slow-motion, but with such a high shutter speed (no ND filters that day!) I wasn't able to get it to look that great when I converted it down from 60p to 24p slo-mo.

Please share anything you have done lately so i can watch too.