Shot behind the scenes with canon 5d mark iii

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JLaville

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Hi guys, been into filming as a hobby for about two years now.... well mostly in my head and reading up as time to actually film has been a huge factor, i have only used a camera in total around 6 times so am very inexperienced and still new. My background is in graphic designing. I purchased my 2nd ever camera after dropping my first (7d broke long story) and first time I got to use it was last Saturday.

I was asked to do a behind the scenes of an artist at a Ferrari ball, I kind of told them I had a lot of experience with a camera which was bending the truth, I just wanted to get some experience and of course I didn't charge for my services as I am not confident to guarantee fair results and had no real previous footage to show them. So I shot and edited this nervous as hell but we have to start somewhere. A lot of the scenes was dark, I didn't want to crank up the iso or shutter speed as only had two roto light mounted so I cranked the lens to 2.8f on a zoom. This meant shallow depth of film which was a nightmare on a run and shoot setup. The entire thing was filmed in three hours and edited in a day, was just me doing it. Id appreciate some constructive feed back I know about focus but any other coments would be great as really want to learn and get better at this. And want to dedicate some time now that I finally have some to explore this art.

So heres the footage: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BGkLiVUY13I

can be watched in hd

Thanks guys
 
166 views in 24 hrs and not a single comment - I thought you did a great job. Harsh lighting, on camera mic... so what. Your sense of story was well played out, well edited and I watched it to the end. As for Lemon - what an act! Like I said, great job!
 
Great job with bad lighting.
It is a nightmare to nail focus on a run and gun job like this one and you managed it well although of course there was a lot of out of focus shots in there.
Where you had her in a room or fairly stationary I would have used a tripod....the shots of her with a wardrobe in the background moved between her being in focus and the wardrobe being in focus.

With SLRs the addons are essential.

Nice job on the editing too.
 
Shooting with DSLRs a lot of the footage is crap e.g. out of focus, blown highlights etc The secret is to only use the good bit & then nobody is any the wiser & just thinks all your work is superb.
 
Really nice job. Some bad focus, but its really hard to nail it. Nice editing and even thought you use in camera mic in sounded much better than many others using one. Congrats
 
Why so contrasty? You don't need to crush those blacks, you're losing a lot of detail.
Also, I think you can afford to back that saturation down.
 
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