SHORT: Following water on a journey (Shot on a Sony NEX-VG20)

In general it was very good. A "simple" thing like water that makes a hole journey and finnaly comes back as rain.

The shots were very nice.

But for me this is more a "videoclip" then a "short". To be a short I would liked to hear more water (water running, draining, sound of the sea near the end, maybe some
small wind, some other sounds (maybe sound of sand running through your fingers or so, and that EQ-ed, pitched, timestreched...)

All this mixed with the music.
 
Yeah I agree- It could really benefit from some foley! This was really a "test" to see if my camera would be able to get the look I was going for- and I plan on making some story and character driven films with it in the near future.
 
The main "look" I was going for was a very shallow depth of field and very "close up" shots to the water. I wanted to make the water very personal.
 
Yeah, can you give us some insight into the camera?

BTW - I thought the video was quite clever and looked surprisingly good considering the camera... color me interested.
 
For the overall price and the specs of the camera- yes I would recommend it. If you are more interested in filmmaking versus photography then get this camera. Basically it's as if they wised up and took the amazing sensor size and interchangeable lenses of the DSLRs and placed them into a video camera.

You also get basic video features such as zebras, peaking for focus (very handy when filming with shallow DOP) and some nice audio features. It doesn't have very many bells and whistles on the body itself, but look at it as if it were a film camera that you capture the flat image onto and then have full freedom to grade it later, which is how it should be anyways for films. Make sure you set it to "cinematone" setting to get more of a flat look when recording.

It handles very well and hardly gives me issues, and the preset 18-200 mm lens that came with it will give you alot of freedom. I recommend if you get the camera to also go on Amazon and find a adapter ring such as an FD to E-mount adapter so you can attach old cannon lenses and such to the camera. They shouldn't be too much (mine was 25 bucks) but make sure it's the right adapter- it has to be E-mount on one end.

Anyways I'm not sure if that explains enough about it but there are plenty of in depth reviews out there. All in all you have seen an example of the quality and performance of the camera in my short film so at least you have something to envision for it's capabilities!
 
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