7D Wedding highlight by Stillmotion

jls4 said:
Wow - I actually thought it looked good. Heck just to see a little of the sky and the faces at the same time is amazing.

My first real project was on a DVX and talk about little to no dynamic range. The V1U worked a little better and at least I had HD, but even it has limitations. Now this $1700 camera looks better than both of my old cams and it's in an "untweaked mode" ? I find that awesome. LOL
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Agreed. I have done some tests with the 5D, the HVX, and XHA1 and the 5D blows them away with how it treats the highlights.
 
Loic said:
I find it tricky how a guy would have two pre production cameras and go shoot a wedding vid. These cameras are sent around the world to make marking and buzz around the 7D. But two cams? I think the whole shoot was planted by canon with there with the best production crews. Think about it, the guy crys like ten times in the movie. It just seems to phoney to me. Id rather see Perya (Town Fair) - a Canon 7D Short a thousand times then think this vid is genuine.
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I can understand how you could feel this way. However, please take the time to watch the hundreds of other Stillmotion videos. While this video was great it doesn't compare to many of their other videos shot with a steadicam and a crew of 2-3 people.

Everts said:
it so clean love the dolly shot at 3:16 .
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That's the Cinevate Pegasus!
 
octopi_films said:
Agreed. I have done some tests with the 5D, the HVX, and XHA1 and the 5D blows them away with how it treats the highlights.
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I'm also excited about being able to customize the gamma through the profiles you can set up. I want to create a profile that shifts close to the top of the range to see if I can pull in more light when outside. Wouldn't use it indoors of course. But would love to see how it looks when tweaked for a specific purpose.
 
I'm really blown away by this too - both for what the camera can do and their really creative and thoughtful approach to wedding photography. This is better shot and edited than most TV shows dealing with similar 'big day' subject matter, both in concept and execution. Hell, it's better than a lot of movies - I feel like I know these people :crybaby:

Camera-wise, I'm particularly struck by the silhouette shots and the 'peeping' shots where we see the subjects candidly, though a crack in the door though the canopy of leaves at the end. :-Mark-14(DBG):-Mark-14(DBG):-Mark-14(DBG)
 
Luis Caffesse said:
Wow.
Possibly the best wedding highlight piece I've ever seen.
Forget the camera - the composition, the editing, the pacing was spot on.
Fantastic work here regardless of the tech.

That's what I love to see.
:thumbsup:
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Agreed 100%. They really are fantastic filmmakers all around.
 
> I think the whole shoot was planted by canon
> with there with the best production crews.

Actually, couple of years ago when SM guys were shooting mostly with the XH-A1, Canon approached them to make a showcase piece for Canon products, I think they displayed it on WEVA. Search on SM's blog. SM has an excellent crew for Canon just to offer them their new product and not worry about the result, it is always top-notch.

Canon's relationship with SM seems to hold despite that SM swapped the A1 in favor of EX about a year ago when they switched from naked cams to adapters. Now they are ditching adapters in favor of the 5Dk2 and now the 7D. They only thing I wonder how they shoot long pieces, with 12 minute recording limit. I guess they use multiple cameras with a separate sound recorder, and the edit to the sound.
 
If you had two 7Ds and went between both of them, and used a dual system for audio, then you could get the whole ceremony. Wedding filmers are used to being on their toes so I don't think that extra element would present too much of a problem.
 
Eddy Robinson said:
Hell, it's better than a lot of movies - I feel like I know these people :crybaby:
:-Mark-14(DBG):-Mark-14(DBG):-Mark-14(DBG)
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I feel the opposite. I believe a wedding video should have the shooting style and ethos of a documentary not a romantic fiction piece. That would limit one's clientelle somewhat though. Add Demented Forever tattoos and all that:)
 
Some of stillmotions other wedding videos, done with 35mm adapters, are even better. But the best ones were done with a crew of 2-4 people (as already mentioned).

The pieces are nice, but ultimately, because they are wedding videos and of the way they shoot them, they look and feel stylistically cloned and a bit sterile. The shallow DOF on still objects and the whole make-up bit feels rubber stamped - possibly the limits of shooting weddings and only weddings. But I don't dispute that they are nice looking.
 
Otis Grapsas said:
I feel the opposite. I believe a wedding video should have the shooting style and ethos of a documentary not a romantic fiction piece. That would limit one's clientelle somewhat though. Add Demented Forever tattoos and all that:)
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Most people see Disney versions of weddings and pay for that. They want the rose-colored music video/highlight film. They are paying for you to make themselves look their best in almost all cases.

Running a business built on a documentary ethos in the wedding world is a difficult manuever.

It's kind of like if a band payed you to make a documentary about them. Things are compromised from the start.
 
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"Wow.
Possibly the best wedding highlight piece I've ever seen.
Forget the camera - the composition, the editing, the pacing was spot on.
Fantastic work here regardless of the tech.

That's what I love to see."

I agree wholeheartedly! We have (in the past two years) also been incorporating a 90 second to 2 minute "fast edits" with all of our wedding packages. It seems to be a big selling point for us, as others (in market) have just added it to their options. Easier to email, post on youtube, website, etc. Also, markedly more compelling than making your friends sit through the two hour Director's Cut;) This example, unfortunately, puts mine to shame! I'm going to sit down for a couple hours tonight and watch all their stuff....fantastic wedding videographers, perhaps the best I've seen as well!

Thanks for the link

Also, I agree...If Canon was aware these guys/gals were doing this type of production with their 5d2s....why would they NOT seed them with a couple pre/prod 7ds? Seems like a no-brainer, finding the best in the field using the 5d2 for video production purposes.

J
 
In my opinion they are the best in the world. Jason Magbanua is up there with Stillmotion. He does like over 200 weddings a year and keeps up the same quality for every weddings. He's the one who shot the Perya short. Canon knows who rocks the video world! Wedding videographers!

;)
 
Jim Klatt said:
Running a business built on a documentary ethos in the wedding world is a difficult manuever.
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One could also hung a warning on the wall for clients: ATTENTION! Event photography can defeat the psychological mechanism of repression. Reviewing the material in the future can and will trigger, directly or indirectly, a multitube of negative emotions, sometimes completely unrelated to the event photographed, emotions that would otherwise be safely repressed in the subconscious. Proceed at your own risk and Welcome to Tony's Wedding Videos:)
 
Still Motion kicks ass!
2:22 is funny, the officiant was trying to get outa there like his car was about to be towed!
Is it just me or was that groom a big p---y? I'm glad he's happy but he lost his man card fast. He was crying more than her.
VERY EXCITED ABOUT THE 7D! And looking forward to Sept 29th, I'm still holding on to the dream. Come on Canon don't fail me...
 
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