Music Video... my first venture into doing video

03/04/2011 07:02:37 AM · #1

Since business has been slow here during the Winter months I decided to try out the video function on my 5DMII and the iMovie software on the iMac. I have a friend that is doing Rap so I volunteered to shoot a music video for him. This is the result.

Music Video

Canon EF 24-70mm f/2.8 L USM

03/04/2011 03:19:36 PM · #2

bump

Simms

Canon EOS-5D Mark II

03/04/2011 03:25:15 PM · #3

OK, first off, not really into Hippity Hop myself, I prefer a nice Bach or Debussy (although partial to Saint Saens at Halloween) - so will not comment on the actual music. From a photography point of view I prefer the more shallow DOF stuff - looks more dynamic and interesting. To be honest kind of hard for me to comment as I only watched about 50 secs or so but you bumped so I commented!

Nikon AF-S NIKKOR 24-70mm f/2.8G ED

03/04/2011 03:29:59 PM · #4

Thanks Simms, yeah I'm not a big fan of the rap but wanted to give the video thing a go. I learned a lot from it and next time I plan on using a tripod and setting it up and reshooting each scene a few times from different angles and also using more of the lenses I have. I pretty much left the 17-40 on the camera .

Neil

Fujifilm X-T30

03/04/2011 03:33:08 PM · #5

I thought it was pretty good (and I'm not a rap fan either). One critique: I didn't like the use of some of the effects, like the lines through the video or the "old video" effect (vertical film lines): 1) they were just distractions, and 2) they gave me the impression of just doing them because you could.