Rough cut for my new music video... new territory for me too. DVX100a+Letus35

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LloydC

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Rock performance video. Something far from what I've ever shot in my short music video directing history. I love music videos with stories (would shoot all narrative videos for all my videos if I could), but I wanted to prove to myself I could do performance stuff. Definitely learned a lot on this shoot. Also helps that the band were extremely professional and worked their asses off (while drinking massive amount of beer of course)

Very controlled shoot with the band only playing specific sections for most of the time... didn't want to shoot the whole song 100 times then cut it together.

Shot for $50, which was for the delicious pizza. Used Canon 50mm lens on Letus 35beta.

Decided to embrace the faults of the letus35beta. Thought the light reflection prevalent in the lens of the adapter would work perfectly for this video... it's called "Kaleidoscope" by PROX. http://www.myspace.com/proxband

this is a ROUGH CUT... looking for some detailed feedback. They won't be releasing this video for a while, but want to get the final cut done asap. But this is pretty close to what I want.

http://www.lloydchoi.com/videos/kaleidoscoperough.mov
~25mb - right click and save-as please!

Thanks and cheers!
-Lloyd

EDIT: btw, there is one static long shot that irks me... guess where it is....
 
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cool video, i like it.

you use the 35mm to its advantage, dark and load of fens flare, good on you:thumbsup: . But it's also to your disadvantage when you have prolong shoots of lens flare. you could see the dust in the letus. and the gg... What canon 50mm lens were you using? f1.8?

but overall for $50, what more can you ask for....you did a great job.
 
thanks David

used a f1.4. Didn't notice any dust specks... made sure there wasn't any. Could you point out some spots where there are? will need to fix those :P

Thanks
 
i love that canon 50mm 1.4. best lens purchase i've ever made.
i'm digging this.

who provided the lights? what kind?

good stuff man. congrats.
 
i'm having trouble finding the rings to connect my letus35 to my dvx100a. Is it a 72mm - 58mm step down ring? I have the 58 - 72mm step up ring but it doesn't fit
 
Nice shots...so what was the lighting setup? I notice a ton of lights in the background? You own all of those? The flares get very annoying after a while...but nice look.
 
home depot lights... 10 lights total. Gotta love return policies.

yuujin, you need a step down ring.
 
Nice job. Looks great for a simple vid. Since you're looking for constructive feedback, I'll say look for ways to change it up, maybe through color grading of different shots (check out Noah's "inspire84" new Janus video), or maybe some art beats type overlays, stock footage or even shoot some B-roll and see what happens. The look you have is great, but it might not be too hard to take it to the next level if you have the time. Maybe some editing tricks, speed changes, freeze frames...go crazy and expirement. I stumble upon good stuff that way myself. Nice work!
 
I liked it. It could get broken up a little more (does become repetitive) but it held my attention throughout.

One thing I would recommend. The first verse has significantly less lens flare then the chorus following it, but then the second verse has the same amount of lens flare. I would try and cut to shots w/o the flare for the second verse to break it up some.
 
great advice guys. Will definitely try them out

No idea how to do those film burns... Think people use them too much. But they do make videos flow better. Might give it a go though.
 
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