Comedian Shoot

Mark Harris

Mark Harris

Pain in the ass
I've started getting more and more work shooting comedians and producing DVDs for them.

These are some HVX grabs from a comedian named Spanky I shot a couple weeks ago in CT.

I am constantly impressed by this camera. Even in pretty basic situations, the pictures are just so crisp and the colors so rich. Granted, this place had much better lighting than the average comedy club, as it was a theater, but still.

I shot with the HVX CU and mids and my DVX on the wide. I've since read that I should do it the other way around. I didn't see a lot of difference, until I watched on an HD TV. Then, the difference became really apparent, even though I was shooting in SD mode with identical settings on both cams. Anyway, very happy with the HVX purchase...

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updated first post with a wide. I think there is a lot more noise in the DVX, but I guess it's impossible to tell without setting them both on the wide side by side. When on the HD TV, the HVX SD footage actually holds up quite nicely with the blacks much more smooth and rich, while the DVX footage seemed a LOT noisier. Some of that would be MPG compression for the DVD, but still, the HVX seemed much nicer.
 
yeah, that;s the thing I like most is that the colors match up so well between the cams. Timur might have some other footage we shot last weekend with the cameras reversed. I'll ask if he can post a grab.
 
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