| | | | Recently I have been the cameraman on two student short films 'The Giving Tree' and 'Security'. With our campus condoning shooting HD on their HDV Cameras and only being told to shoot SD because we have more SD DV decks then HDV decks we had decided to stick it to them and hire out a camera ourselves. Without going into a whinging story about not being 'aloud' to shoot HD which I think is ridiculous considering the campus is open till midnight I thought it would be a good idea to talk about shooting behind the scenes footage.
So as we were not aloud to use the campus HDV cameras we decided to hire the Canon 5D mark II after much deliberation. It would be perfect for our shoot, finally being able too swap out lenses and the key factor for me which was shooting 1080p on a full frame sensor.
On the day of the shoots I found myself taking plenty of production stills to document the making of, this would also help for advertising later on. When shooting on dedicated video cameras it was generally a hassle to take stills on set because of the small crews we have. But with the 5D it went all I had to do was point and shoot and I could continue shooting for the short film seconds later.
Because the 5D is so light and robust it meant recording behind the scenes interviews would be easy and would not hold up the production. In other instances we would of had to have a dedicated camera for the set-up time but now it meant that whenever we moved the tripod we could do a quick interview.
Here is a quick edit of the behind scenes on our student short film 'The Giving Tree' based on the children's book and adapted for screen.
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The behind the scenes stills and video arent necessarily something you think about on set, it is usually an after thought when editing but I think it helps to remember the experience and reminisce about everything that happened that day/month or year. Stills definately will help advertising for our short film and lets face it, who doesnt like the dvd extras of behind the scenes? | | | | |
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Trent Whittington
Trent Whittington is a student at JMC Academy in Sydney, Australia who is very passionate about the television industry.
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