3-Camera shoot with 5D Mark II

Great job. David Leffel looks like an appealing presenter. How did you manage the 12 minute record time constraints during the recording sessions?
 
You can actually get more than 12 minutes. The time varies anywhere from 12 minutes 30 seconds to almost 15 minutes. We would get an average of just over 14 minutes per shot.

Shooting three cameras (or at least two) is the best (or only) way to get around the recording time limits because each person rolls out at different points. It only takes a few seconds for the camera to start recording again.

Before the firmware upgrade, it was a pain in the ass between shots because even though the camera would record fast again, you would have to go through all the tricks to get the settings back to where you had them before the shot stopped.

David was great to shoot. We have a ton of great footage.
 
Great job!.... Great concept!...... I love the guy..... So much "old school" wisdom and swagger!

........ Which brings me to the part I'm missing from your film.... I love your multi camera work.... To me it's missing the close-ups..... I wanna see those hands.....the age....the wrinkles....the flow.... The experience. I wanna see this guys face! I mean full frame close! There is a story in every wrinkle in his face..... There is truth in his face.....there is passion in his face when he's explaining the brush strokes to his own face!

Just a suggestion.... Nice work!

frisco
 
Very, very nice. Was that natural light? It looked wonderful. Although CUs of hands and face would have been nice, I rather thick they would have been a nightmare to catch, as the chap was in so much motion.
Dave
 
frisco said:
Great job!.... Great concept!...... I love the guy..... So much "old school" wisdom and swagger!

........ Which brings me to the part I'm missing from your film.... I love your multi camera work.... To me it's missing the close-ups..... I wanna see those hands.....the age....the wrinkles....the flow.... The experience. I wanna see this guys face! I mean full frame close! There is a story in every wrinkle in his face..... There is truth in his face.....there is passion in his face when he's explaining the brush strokes to his own face!

Just a suggestion.... Nice work!

frisco
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Great suggestion. I agree about the close-ups. This clip was shot in the first 10 minutes of a 5 day workshop, so as we got more familiar with his style and movements, we were able to get more close-ups of his face and cut aways and detail shots.

For the final piece, there will be a lot of shot variety to create pace, emotion, and movement. There is a ton of footage to go through. I cut this together myself so they could have something to show at ComicCon. I think it was from less than 2GB of the footage and we have about 600GB of total footage. I'm looking for an editor right now.
 
Michael_Richard said:
Is that 30p footage?
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Yes. It is 30p footage. I did not convert to 24p. I used the FFMPEG method to convert the 1920x1080 MOV footage to 1280x720 MP4 footage and then I cut it in Sony Vegas 8.0c using the multicamera function. My editing template had height 720, width 1280, and frame rate 30.0000.
ESTEBEVERDE said:
Very Nice!!!
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Thanks!
daveswan said:
Very, very nice. Was that natural light? It looked wonderful. Although CUs of hands and face would have been nice, I rather thick they would have been a nightmare to catch, as the chap was in so much motion.
Dave
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I just posted something which mentions more close-ups. We have some killer shallow depth-of-field close-ups of paint brushes, canvas, faces, hands, etc. Yes, all natural light. I synced the white balance of all three cameras to make post a lot easier.
 
Great image, Greg.

Only thing I find distracting are the missed focus pulls and the jerky camera action with the camera moves. Are the tripods not fluid heads?

Thanks for sharing.
 
Kholi said:
Great image, Greg.

Only thing I find distracting are the missed focus pulls and the jerky camera action with the camera moves. Are the tripods not fluid heads?

Thanks for sharing.
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Thanks. Two of the cameras were on fluid heads with tripods on dolly wheels. One camera was hand held on a stills tripod so no fluid.

The missed focus pulls bump me a little too but in a documentary style of shooting you're going to have those. They get better as we figured out his style of movement.
 
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