7D Music Video incredible Low Light and smooth Slow Motion at its finest !!!!

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Incredible how clean your footage can come out after you master this camera and workflow.
This video was shot with the stock 7D stock kit lens 100%. The intro was shot In a dark room and the full music video was shoot at 4:30 pm on 2 clear sunny days.

Footage was imported into Avid Media Composer and edited.
Exported and imported into After Effects.
Exported from After Effects and compressed using Adobe Media Encoder H.264 and uploaded to YouTube. Click Here to see the video
YouTube hurts the quality but if you view it in 720 HD it looks a lot better.
 
nothing says "r&b" quite as well as blurry duckies, waterfalls and a walk in the snow...
and what was with the dandruff lighting in the intro?

really? this may well be the best example ever of "good camera. bad execution"
 
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wgzn said:
nothing says "r&b" quite as well as blurry duckies, waterfalls and a walk in the snow...
and what was with the dandruff lighting in the intro?
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ROFL!

To be fair, I actually thought the opening scene was kind of cool lighting-wise, but my issue was the sound sync was off by about 1 sec so it feels like one of those dubbed kung-fu films.

Either way, in the future, this really belongs in the 7D footage section.
 
If you're going to shoot slow-mo for lip sync in a music video, you need to speed up the playback on-location so that when the footage is slowed down in post it is back to 100% speed with the music. I assume you were shooting 60p for a 24p project, which means that you need to play the song at 250% speed on-location.

As for audio on the intro, not only was it badly out of sync but it was also (I assume from the way it sounds) on-camera/in-camera mic. Use a boom, use a wireless. If you don't own, rent. It sounded awful, to be honest.

The video itself needs something more. It felt like you kept going back to the same 2 or 3 shots of the waterfall, so after the first few shots it was just redundant and uninteresting. A second (or third?) location would have helped immensely.
 
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The music and picture are in two totally different places. It doesn't look like he's singing at all, you need to work on focus pulling and sound sync.
 
Your comments are defiantly appreciated but please take note that the budget was zero and I was shooting run and gun with no plan. I don't agree with everyone but I truly appreciate the comments anyhow.
 
Maybe some of us were a bit harsh, but what exactly don't you agree with? That the video and audio were out of sync? Is that up for debate?

Also, keep in mind what you did here: Instead of posting this in the 7D footage subforum (which is all about showing off your 7D footage with others), you posted it in the general discussion for Canon's cropped DSLR cameras. If you are posting in this section with a description like "incredible Low Light and smooth Slow Motion at its finest", it implies that you have something groundbreaking to show us that is too good to be kept in the subforum designated for it.

Then, when people criticize it (keep in mind, it is mostly constructive criticism and excellent advice that you should take note of), you respond with "take note that the budget was zero ... with no plan". So, what are you trying to say with this exactly? Is this a good example of groundbreaking work that you expected everyone to be impressed with? Or did you want the opinion of the entire forum of Canon DLSR users? Or did you just want to share something you made while experimenting, and accidentally put it in the wrong place with a misleading title?
 
a description like "incredible Low Light and smooth Slow Motion at its finest", it implies that you have something groundbreaking to show us
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yeah, somebody else did that last year. i think the title mentioned something about "stunning" and everybody just slagged them. i guess when you PUT YOURSELF on a pedestal, people are quicker to want to knock you off ; )
 
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(keep in mind, it is mostly constructive criticism and excellent advice that you should take note of) ; )
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Yes your correct.... I'm just talking about the quality you can pull out of this camera, not that I discovered something ground breaking.

Also yes The audio fell off somehow and with that I totally agree.. My eyes don't see anything else wrong but the audio issue. All the slow motion was done purposely and just my vision. I wanted him to look more like he was dreaming than singing. Shooting is a expression of what one sees(that my opinion). There is no rules to ones vision. As long as the viewers like what they see you won. This simple video got me job $$ offers that I have no time to even take, so for me that's a win win!! Not one client noticed a issue but the audio.

Thanks for all the comments whether good and bad.
 
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Yo kingsta, everyone meant well.

Just keep practicing, we all need practice though so no big deal.

A good start when doing a music vid is to come up with an idea that goes with the mood and possibly the the things the artist is singing about. That's a good starting point.
 
Personally, I think you did a good job. As for the lip Sync, it's obvious that it's slow motion and that it will not match up. I think you basically conveyed that he was singing and that the slow motion was a stylistic choice. I liked the look of it.

Nice work.
 
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