There is a bit of story behind this video, and the making of it, so please if you have the time, please take a few minutes to read.
I'm currently a volunteer at one of the Community Policing Offices ...
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There is a bit of story behind this video, and the making of it, so please if you have the time, please take a few minutes to read.
I'm currently a volunteer at one of the Community Policing Offices where I have have been for over the past 3 years. At the end of the year, we have a Christmas Party/Volunteer Night, where we put on some type of act for everyone who comes.
Last year, we decided to make a short video, which was shot in one, on one HV20 by myself. You can view that video here: http://www.vimeo.com/1933900
This year, we decided to make another video, but to have a little more of a story line. What was suppose to be approx 5-6 mins, turned into a 15 min video.
During the last few month, I've really taken a liking towards cinematography. I purchased a Glidecam 2000 Pro, and also a Jag35Pro adapter. As I am a photography full time, I have a few EF lens that I can use with the adapter.
Keep in mind, this video is VERY amateur! I self taught myself the glidecam and adapter while shooting the footage for this video, and all while still learning my HV20 at the same time. So while some shots may actually look good, some are pretty terrible!
The idea behind the story came from my friend Jason, who wrote most of the story line, and was there during all the shooting.
We shot over 5 days, to be able to get all the volunteers to helped out with the footage. We total over 250 man hours while making this. It was a LOT of work, but we also had a LOT of fun making the video. We're planning on taking a lot of the behind the scene stuff and putting a small video together (in the far far future!)
You will notice some of the footage is not very sharp (using the adapter and learning it at the same time) and also some loud humming in a few scenes (vibrating from adapter). I believe that the new models of the jag35pro have this issue fixed now. Since we also shot some scenes on different days, the color balance/exposure is off, but again, all in the learning process.
Everything was shot on ONE SINGLE Canon HV20, which is truly an amazing camera. Editing was done on a PC in Adobe Premier Pro CS3. I used the evaluation software of Cineform to remove pulldown from the HV20 as everything was shot in 24P.
I'm sure if we had more time I could of spent a lot more time on the scenes and direction to really produce something of calibre that you see here in Vimeo, but I'm quite happy with the final outcome, and we got a lot of laughs from the 80+ audience last night.
Finally a big thanks to all the volunteers who worked so hard, our two NPO's, Executive Director, and Program coordinators from our centre who were so patient with us during the shooting.
So, if you've actually finished reading all this, sit back, and enjoy this short we put together.
TIA, and comments always welcome ;)
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