The Garrison

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cameron12x

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http://www.vimeo.com/7320974

The actual video starts at the 1:37 mark. This is my first-ever "real" video shot with the Canon 7D and my first effort trying to produce anything in Adobe Premiere Pro.

For someone who had never shot video before, I was faced with a very steep learning curve--both in terms of the actual shooting, and the very beginning of learning a very complex piece of software. I've also only had the 7D for a couple of weeks. I still have much to learn. I volunteered to shoot a friend's band, and I had no idea how dark it would be inside this neighborhood club. I brought my 10-22mm F3.5 Canon zoom, thinking it would be fast enough. But after some quick test shooting it clearly was not--even at ISO 6400!

So, I was forced to tighter composed shooting with my longer Canon 85mm F1.8, shot wide-open with manual focusing throughout (also shooting at ISO 6400). I also had to position myself nearly on top of the band in order to get clear footage, due to crowd interaction. That made for very narrow depth-of-field, which made manual focusing even more challenging! The original red lighting was a bit too overpowering, so I decided to desaturate the actual footage of the band to produce a black and white video. I might try another version with a manipulated color temperature output and see how that looks...
 
The opening shot is WAY to long. Remember the average cut in a film is 7 seconds. The average person stops paying attention at looking at something somewhere a little over 10, and especially if its something where there is no movement. You hold that opening shot for almost 10-15 seconds before there is even any audio, and almost 45 seconds before you change the shot. Then you hold the second shot for almost as long. A big no no, you need way more shots to be cut up in that time period. Also a name at the begining would be good to.

You had some good shots, and good sound (what did you use to record sound?) But a little shaky. DId you use a tripod? Im guessing your shutter speed probably had to be set pretty low to which gave you a bit of ghosting.

But dam, im impressive you didnt have more grain given you shot at a super high iso.

This camera is fantastic.

jon
 
jonE5 said:
The opening shot is WAY to long. Remember the average cut in a film is 7 seconds. The average person stops paying attention at looking at something somewhere a little over 10, and especially if its something where there is no movement. You hold that opening shot for almost 10-15 seconds before there is even any audio, and almost 45 seconds before you change the shot. Then you hold the second shot for almost as long. A big no no, you need way more shots to be cut up in that time period. Also a name at the begining would be good to.

You had some good shots, and good sound (what did you use to record sound?) But a little shaky. DId you use a tripod? Im guessing your shutter speed probably had to be set pretty low to which gave you a bit of ghosting.

But dam, im impressive you didnt have more grain given you shot at a super high iso.

This camera is fantastic.

jon
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Jon--thanks for the feedback. Much appreciated. I'm a fairly experienced still shooter, but an abject beginner at video. See my notes for the video at Vimeo.

My apologies, I threw this video together very quickly (essentially being my first ever). I knew going in that I wasted WAY too much time on those static shots. I won't do that the next time.

I shot at 1080p/24 @ 1/60th second. Used a monopod. Sound was captured by a Rode stereo videomic, attached to the flash hot shoe. I was happy with the sound too, but it sounds like their mixing setup was clipping some of the cymbal sounds.

I'm wondering if desaturating the output to black and white reduced the overall noise level of the clip. I have to admit that I too was blown away by the lack of noise at ISO 6400. And that venue was DARK!

Jeff
 
Welcome to moving pictures Jeff, I think you're really going to like it :)
I got into filmmaking a couple of years ago, I used the be a music producer/sound engineer/song writter and before that in the medical field and before that into building hot rods and God knows what else. I love filmmaking more than anything I've ever done, one of my biggest assests was that my dad was an amatuer photographer and I spent a summer in my younger days really getting into photography after I bought a manual Minolta SLR. Although the love affair only lasted a brief moment what I learned about apertures, shutter speeds and optics in general has been a huge advantage to my filmmaking.
So you allready have an edge coming into this awesome new world of creativity, keep pushing forward!
 
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