taubkin
Veteran
...neurotic consumers, fetichist collectors.
Today I went to shoot an interview alone, and just crammed trunk of my fiat (it has a trunk after you lower the passagener seats), of everything I had, just to be sure. My DVX Bag, filled with XLR Cables, A Lav mic, a dinamic mic, a circular screw-on polarizer, my headphones, etc...
Took my cool (but large, with only 2 stages) Sachler DV2, my toolkit with gaffer tapes, tools, lightmeter, metering tape, etc...
And since this was an uninspiring overcast day, I took my 3-light fresnel Lighting kit, with my assortment of foamcore, and gels. When I got there I just realized that I was alone and that I had to interview a 78-year old lady. I just left it all in the car, took my camera bag and shot handheld, availiable light, wired the lav to her and she gave me a tour of her hous and her work. It was awesome, intimate, the images were excellent and I met her cat pips wich is very friendly (otherwise, she'd probably attacked me in my 8 bags of gear...). Makes you wonder why the hell leave your pants for a 50Kg light kit.
I was just thinking and as much as equipment can make a shoot possible, sometimes, all you need is just "an idea in your head and a camera in your hands" (quoting Glauber Rocha - again - yes I must be the milioneth brazilian film student to do it). Better yet when it's a DVX.
EDIT - You can check the grabs in the following topic:
http://www.dvxuser.com/cgi-bin/DVX2/YaBB.pl?board=Clips;action=display;num=1101734463;start=0#0
Today I went to shoot an interview alone, and just crammed trunk of my fiat (it has a trunk after you lower the passagener seats), of everything I had, just to be sure. My DVX Bag, filled with XLR Cables, A Lav mic, a dinamic mic, a circular screw-on polarizer, my headphones, etc...
Took my cool (but large, with only 2 stages) Sachler DV2, my toolkit with gaffer tapes, tools, lightmeter, metering tape, etc...
And since this was an uninspiring overcast day, I took my 3-light fresnel Lighting kit, with my assortment of foamcore, and gels. When I got there I just realized that I was alone and that I had to interview a 78-year old lady. I just left it all in the car, took my camera bag and shot handheld, availiable light, wired the lav to her and she gave me a tour of her hous and her work. It was awesome, intimate, the images were excellent and I met her cat pips wich is very friendly (otherwise, she'd probably attacked me in my 8 bags of gear...). Makes you wonder why the hell leave your pants for a 50Kg light kit.
I was just thinking and as much as equipment can make a shoot possible, sometimes, all you need is just "an idea in your head and a camera in your hands" (quoting Glauber Rocha - again - yes I must be the milioneth brazilian film student to do it). Better yet when it's a DVX.
EDIT - You can check the grabs in the following topic:
http://www.dvxuser.com/cgi-bin/DVX2/YaBB.pl?board=Clips;action=display;num=1101734463;start=0#0
