"Disaster" Cover - GH2 w/ terraquake patch and stock 14-42mm lens

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distilled

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o_RdHPUlJEU

Recently got the GH2 with the stock 14-42 and shot the above video. Couple of the shots were done with a Canon too. Really impressed with the stock lens and I can't wait to try out the Seaquake patch with some sandisk 95mbs cards. Need to also get a field monitor and a cage too.

Let me know what you think.
 
Very Very cool little video. I hope it gets a lot of hits. The girl can sing. Couple of suggestions though. Don't use AFC ever. None of the GH2 shots have a shallow depth of field so focus really isn't changing that much even on the slider shots. Just use manual focus and only change the focus when you are moving straight towards the subject.

Contrast AFC always hunts a little because it has to find out if it should focus forwards or backwards. It just isn't reliable yet. Perhaps the new Panny firmware will help that.

So what is it about your video that you are expecting the Seaquake patch will change?

Oh and make sure the camera guy gets out of the way at 2:29. :)
 
Couldn't watch it cause of the lipsynching abilites of your talent. Kind of a pet peve of mine, but it's so off that it makes it unwatchable. There's no "reality" to her actually singing this cause her ability to sing it on your takes is so off. Not sure if it's a slipping thing or not. I've dealt with this when I had to shoot a music video for a friend and it was very frustrating...

It's not doubt a very nice song though!
 
LOL at 2:29, I just wanted to show off the GH2 in action :) Yeah I'm hoping to solve the focus thing with a few manual focus primes. Justyn, good point on the lipsync. There were several shots that I couldn't use because it was pretty bad. I think with more experience it will get better.
 
distilled said:
LOL at 2:29, I just wanted to show off the GH2 in action :) Yeah I'm hoping to solve the focus thing with a few manual focus primes. Justyn, good point on the lipsync. There were several shots that I couldn't use because it was pretty bad. I think with more experience it will get better.
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Why have her lip synch it then? Just shoot her. She is attractive and can stand out just like that. Did you need to highlight that she was the actual singer? That makes sense then. Also try black and white with the ISO 12,800 setting from the latest Ptools for any super low light shots. Noise in color shots gets distracting. It can look cool in B&W.

I still say good job overall. I watched it all the way through. Twice actually. I turned the music off the second time and the lip synching didn't bother me a bit as I humm'd the tune along with her. :)
 
mpgxsvcd said:
Why have her lip synch it then? Just shoot her. She is attractive and can stand out just like that. Did you need to highlight that she was the actual singer? That makes sense then. Also try black and white with the ISO 12,800 setting from the latest Ptools for any super low light shots. Noise in color shots gets distracting. It can look cool in B&W.

I still say good job overall. I watched it all the way through. Twice actually. I turned the music off the second time and the lip synching didn't bother me a bit as I humm'd the tune along with her. :)
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She was singing along to a recording of her playing in the background. Yes, there were some shots where the lip movements were a little off and/or did not match the intensity that's in the recording. Again, I think that will improve with practice. Although I have never been a fan of B&W I may try it out, thx for the suggestion.
 
Distilled.. I'd say it's not on you brother... I'ts the talent. She also doesn't move her mouth very much when she sings and obviously she had a lot more effort and attention in singing into a microphone, or just that it's an intense song and it's a passive kind of approach.

I'd say you did an admirable job, but I'm just sensitive to this cause I had to deal with it recently and I just said it is what it is... as good as it can be... That's also why I believe that most music videos are so cut, cut, cut cause then you can slip the audio and do whatever you want...

Not to steal your thread thunder.. but this is what I shot and it clearly shows how "off" the singer is. I shot this in like 20 minutes and did it for free and also to get some steadicam practice...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KcvVZ1r-Jws&feature=g-upl Video kicks in about 45 seconds in...
 
I played back the source video files while playing the prerecorded audio file and found out that they slowly drift apart :(. So, while her lip movements weren't always in sync I think the bigger problem is the way everything was recorded. I tried everything to sync the clips but its all crap. Hell, even PluralEyes can't sync it. Looks like I'm gonna have to research the problem and hopefully be better prepared for the next video.
 
Distilled there's a lot of great advice on here about how to synch and prep for music video shoots and I have dealt with your pains too and understand how fluttering and drifting can affect things... so I understand. I believe that I read that a lot of people record the audio to DVD and lay over a timecode burn and then shoot some of that before your music is planing and to keep in synch. I'll have to see if I can find the article, but there's definitely a wealth of info on here from people who've done a lot of videos... I just have had the experience of dealing with lipsynchers and it's really friggin hard to do.


Kudos and you have a very good positive attitude so you'll go far with this. That's how I try to be after 20 years. Humble in my skills, open to other points of view, but also not willing to eat a crap sandwich when I don't have too... lol Peace and much respect!
 
Justyn, if you can find that article that would be great. So far I've read through a few threads here on how to get good sync and the first thing I have to do is toss the crappy boombox that I used and get a decent professional player.
 
Years ago when we were shooting film, we'd put the song on vhs with a time code burn in, then lug around a 13" tv as our low rent time code slate. The problem with just using a cd, even though you have a reference recording on camera, is there might be a sampling difference from your editing master. If you have your edit system on a laptop, you could load the song in your sequence and then generate a scratch track with on screen timecode. This way it is easy to find a section of the song for playback so you don't have to roll the whole thing all the time. You can shoot a couple of second of the laptop screen when you roll so you know exactly where the shot goes.
 
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