It’s now the end of February, and what a busy month its’ been. Two months now, since the last blog entry – and in between that time, I’ve shifted my all knowing familiarity of DV Camera’s to the new game (industry) changing HDSLR. I am indeed in the “pro-HDSLR” camp – of course, there are many nay sayers of this new platform, and while it has some major oversights for true film making, its’ price point vs quality ratio is unrivaled. The camera’s deficiencies are more or less prevalent in the kind of film or video production that it’s used for. My work primarily consists of event coverage, promotional video presentations, and music videos. With these kind of projects – slow pans, tilts, static composition and framing type filming is no problem for this camera. Issues with the HDSLR platform start to rear it’s ugly head when you have to film faster type of scenes like skate videos, sports, racing, fast action sequences, or any other movement that requires you to quickly pan or tilt the camera – the “rolling shutter” or “jello effect” problem is heavily apparent. With that said, with a little as a grand or so, you can have a camera rig setup to film and produce any project as well as $10k + “normal” camera rig would cost. As long as the camera is in the right hands, the result can be staggeringly incredible.
With that said! - I’ve had the pleasure of working hands on with this new platform for several client projects in the past few weeks (posted below with a bit of some descriptions). As far as mobility, and ease of setting up – HDSLR’s are extremely versatile. I’m definitely looking forward to doing more work with em’.
I forgot to mention, I’ve recently won Canon’s Best Conceptual Cinematography award in the Independent/Individual Wedding Event category just recently – filmed with Canon’s 7D.
HDSLR projects by amuse|workshop:
Angela and Jayson Rios pre ceremonial Wedding montage – A pleasure it was filming with both Angela and Jayson. We started early in the morning on Super Bowl Sunday at Dana Point (near Laguna Beach) California. Beautiful location for a wedding! The style and concept of the video was to make it feel very personal while giving a very cinematic feel to it. Highlights are artiscally blown out, and a greenish & blue heavy color grade give it a dreamy look.
Videos filmed and edited by Randall Rodriguez.
MuayThai94′ Gym Web Promo – Robert (owner) of MT94 Gym actually stumbled across my work on FaceBook. He messaged me for an opportunity to produce a web promo video for the gym. I was happy to take the job. After scouting the location – I was initially worried about the quality of the video, seeing as there were barely any lighting at all in the gym. But it turns out that it worked out even better. As you can see from the video, the hard spotlights above the ring presented the fight in a “stage” composition that made it look and feel very dramatic. Again the grading was applied to present a cinematic effect. The harsh contrast and exposure was utilized to represent the brutal power of the fighters.
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