Promo for Children's Choir

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Davidonabus

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http://vimeo.com/5102336

Hey guys. Just got the D90 in time to shoot this promotional piece last weekend for a Children's choir.

The intro was shot at a different time than the rest of the stuff... and, because we couldn't get the stage lights turned on, it lacks the lighting drama of some of the other stuff.. It's also considerably more noisy than the rest of the stuff.

Anyhow.. nothing terribly ground-breaking.

Feel free to ask any questions you might have.

David
 
Looks great, David. Very nice promo piece.

What lenses did you use? I still can't ever get my D90 footage to look as good as this.

What type of workflow did you use shooting and in post? Audio?

Is there anyway I could download your original to compare with my own footage?

Thanks,
Andy
 
Thanks for the kinds words, Andy.

I currently have 3 AFD Nikon primes.
24mm 2.8
50mm 1.4
85mm 1.8

The interviews in the theatre were shot with one diffused hot light, balanced with the ambient house lights of the theatre itself. This is kinda tricky because of the lack of manual controls on the camera. Basically, I just balanced the camera for the ambient.. and then introduced the hot light and moved it back and forward until I got an exposure I liked on the subject. It's far from perfect, and if you look closely you'll see the exposure jumps each time a new person is interviewed, but whatever ;)

(Vimeo seems to have added about a stop of exposure (ugh) to the entire video. Not sure why/how.)

The interviews on the steps were shot with natural light.

I used a Zoom H4 for all the interviews with a Shure ME66 Boom Mic. The intro was shot with just the mics on the Zoom H4 hanging on a light stand about 3 feet in front of the subject.

All footage was converted to .MOV and then PRORES (I'm not exactly sure why yet.. haha. I'm just following what others have done on this forum).

Edited in Final Cut. Stair Step removal, 3-way color correction, sharpen filter, and some Magic Bullet Looks for the interviews (but nothing too severe.)

After Effects lower thirds were created with alpha channels intact and imported into FCP at the same resolution/frame rate.

Does that answer your questions?

Thanks again.

David
 
It's far from perfect, and if you look closely you'll see the exposure jumps each time a new person is interviewed, but whatever ;)

Did you not lock exposure with AE-L?

THanks for all the answers.

Good job.
 
Hey Andy.

Thanks again! What I meant was that I kept fiddling with the exposure while one interview left and the other took her place. I locked the exposure whenever I began rolling though... absolutely integral!

d.
 
Very nice! Did you have any heating up problems? Were you turning off the LCD between takes? Ever run into the 5 minute wall?
 
Wow that was extremely good!

Your client must be overpleased with that.
Didnt really notice any lighting issues either.

I know that when upload videos, there is always an extra stop of light (darker image), but your exposure was really well to begin with!

D90!
 
looked about as good as the D90 can. I thought the interviews looked a good bit better than the b-roll. B-roll suffered from the usual noisy image problems and rolling shutter that plagues this camera, but the interviews were darn nice looking. Feed this camera some light and lock it down on a tripod and it's not half bad.
 
Mhood: Nope! I've yet to run into the dreaded overheating issue. For this project I did turn off the LCD every few minutes or so. Not necessarily to avoid overheating.. it was just the way the day went.

David
 
sarcasm? i like it. ;-) i know that's what you meant but since a lot of people actually do think it's the lcd that causes the overheating, and that they could somehow help it by using an external display, i felt i had to point it out.

/matt
 
Matt.

Definitely NOT sarcasm! I really am grateful for the clarification... and all the tips and suggestions you've offered to everyone on this forum.

David
 
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