Music video shot with DIY adapter

[The Wrong Box]

I just finished this music video for a Toronto musician named Thomas. It was shot with an HV30 and a homemade vibrating adapter (made from one of Daniel's GG holders). Edited and colour corrected with Final Cut Pro.

Please feel free to comment.

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F3pDUK9plOE"]YouTube - T H O M A S : Don't Think, Just Hate.[/ame]

[-Rogue5-]

Those shots where you can see the GG holder, and the scratches on the Focus Screen, are real buzz kills. Other than that it was a decent video...

What were the camera settings at? Did you use a EE-A FocusScreen? I've shot some stuff on the TTC and it's dark as balls.

-Rogue5-

[bluegrass]

cool. i did notice the dirt on the cg a couple times. it would have been cooler if the girls on the train got up and helped kick the crap out of the punks. music was good. i assume the main actor was the real vocalist. i would have liked to have seen a little of the whole band.

[The Wrong Box]

I shot in shutter priority mode. Wide open shutter with no gain, except for some scenes in the subway which had a lot of gain. 24p for most of the video. I shot at 30p for the scene where he's singing (he sang to a sped up track) then stretched the 30 frames to 24fps. It just helped to smooth out the jarring handheld-while-walking-backwards shot. The slowed down footage at the end was shot at 60i and split deinterlaced for slow motion.

The dirt on the GG (EE-a) is strings of glue from when I built the adapter. It can't be removed, but I wouldn't have shot the video with it if I thought it would detract from the aesthetic. It was all part of the process, so I didn't fret over the imperfections.

Thanks for your comments.

[IanB]

I wasn't to distracted by the grittiness of the dust and the GG, however, that last scene in the house with the sink needed a manual wb set for it.

I REALLY look forward to the next projects, because I thought this was great.
IB

[The Crowing]

Looks really good. It just makes me want a dof adapter a lot sooner than i will get one. I assume this is a solo artist that records all the instrumentation?

[kikorikey]

i liked it a lot, its nice to see when someone with experience shoots. ( i can tell)