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Coursedesign wrote on 9/13/2005, 9:13 AM

You've outdone yourself as usual, really outstanding!

Where do you get this style of epic music?

I could use that for something very different. So much of the "library music" I find is either too much in the background (like Muzak) or too much in your face.

johnmeyer wrote on 9/13/2005, 9:59 AM

I always cry at weddings, especially those videotaped by Gm Elliott.

Great work. I love your technique. You have mastered a great look.

MUTTLEY wrote on 9/13/2005, 11:38 AM

Always awsome.

What framerate do you shoot at ? I'm always amazed how smooth your slomos look.

- Ray

www.undergroundplanet.com

GmElliott wrote on 9/13/2005, 12:05 PM

Thank you. 60i (always).

kenr44 wrote on 9/13/2005, 12:27 PM

WOW I only hope to do a fourth as well.

michael_morlan wrote on 9/13/2005, 12:52 PM

Damn! A beautiful production!

I'm not interested in frame rates or camera choices. I just want to know how you get such excellent shots without being intrusive. Obviously a lot of this is "b-roll" captured with the couple before and adjancent to the main events (much like a still photographer gets a session.) Obviously you are using a jib-arm all over the place. In particular, how did you get the crab past the chandelier to the couple dancing without being completely in the way? How many camera ops do you have shooting the event?

GmElliott wrote on 9/13/2005, 12:57 PM

Some shots are staged but the majority of it is candid. The over the pond/cake, and chandelier reveal were done with a monopod.

I shoot along with 1 assistant/2nd shooter so it's a 2-man crew.

Thank you for the kind words.

Jeff Waters wrote on 9/13/2005, 1:22 PM

Wow... beautiful camerawork and editing. What kind of cameras are you using?
Jeff

GmElliott wrote on 9/13/2005, 1:26 PM

Appropriately all Sony. One PD-170 and two VX2100s.

birdcat wrote on 9/13/2005, 4:29 PM

Gotta tell you - I'm new to Vegas but was a pro photog in a prior life (even had a NY Post front page) - Your kind of work makes me feel very inadequate.

Absolutely wonderful.

PossibilityX wrote on 9/13/2005, 6:22 PM

I don't even bother looking any more---I just get depressed! <g>

But your work illustrates an important point: Even "ordinary" and "boring" things (like wedding videos) can be made VERY interesting if the right person rises to the challenge.

Have you, or do you, also do other events like 50th wedding anniversaries, etc.? I mention this because a coworker's parents just had their 50th, and I know your work would have blown them away, had you been their videographer.

I think you should produce a "How I Do It" instructional video for the rest of us. I'd buy it.

---John

navydoc wrote on 9/13/2005, 7:16 PM

Truly outstanding. Did you shoot using a 'soft focus' filter or was that done post production?

Great transitions, overlaps. It gives us newbies something to shoot for.

Thanks for sharing,

Doc

RichR wrote on 9/13/2005, 9:14 PM

Just fantastic. Wonderful to watch.

Chanimal wrote on 9/13/2005, 10:00 PM

Like always, a work of art. Thank you for sharing it with us.

Ted

GmElliott wrote on 9/14/2005, 8:02 AM

I don't even bother looking any more---I just get depressed! <g>

But your work illustrates an important point: Even "ordinary" and "boring" things (like wedding videos) can be made VERY interesting if the right person rises to the challenge.

Have you, or do you, also do other events like 50th wedding anniversaries, etc.? I mention this because a coworker's parents just had their 50th, and I know your work would have blown them away, had you been their videographer.

I think you should produce a "How I Do It" instructional video for the rest of us. I'd buy it.

I do all sorts of events, however weddings seem to be the most prominent clientel.

GmElliott wrote on 9/14/2005, 8:04 AM

Truly outstanding. Did you shoot using a 'soft focus' filter or was that done post production?

Thank you. The "softness" your percieving is white diffusion via the "Glow" filter.

GmElliott wrote on 9/14/2005, 8:30 AM

Here's another shot employing the faux jib technique...

http://home.comcast.net/~g.elliott3///experimental.wmv

Jeff Waters wrote on 9/14/2005, 8:38 AM

That's very nice. So you're saying this is done by just holding the camera up high at the end of a monopod and "with very steady hands" lowering your arms slowly?

Do you have a separate monitor or just tilting the oncam LCD flip-out screen down and "eyeballing" it from the ground?

Thanks,
Jeff

GmElliott wrote on 9/14/2005, 10:27 AM

I just use the included LCD to guide my movement. I use a monopod that has the 3 tiny legs that expand toward the bottom. I use those legs to help support the monopod against my body.

GlennChan wrote on 9/14/2005, 11:19 PM

Hey Glen,
You can post urls by coding the URL using HTML.

Type in
< href=http://home.comcast.net/~g.elliott3///RufusMaria.wmv> NAME OF LINK HERE</a>

and you get

NAME OF LINK HERE

GlennChan wrote on 9/14/2005, 11:21 PM

Ok you have to type in
a href

instead of " href"

The forum is fighting me here.

GmElliott wrote on 9/15/2005, 5:11 AM

Thank you- I was explained that a little while back but forgot the exact code. HTML is certainly not my forte.

Laurence wrote on 9/15/2005, 8:56 AM

Where do you get that monopod with three small legs at the bottom? It sounds like a handy piece of gear.

johnmeyer wrote on 9/15/2005, 10:44 AM

Back to the training video for a moment ...

A real training video would be a huge project and probably not what you want to do at the moment. However, something that would be really useful to all of us GmElliott fans would be to have your assistant point the camera at you for about sixty seconds while you hold the camera and track someone walking, or as you move. You described once, in an earlier thread, how you hold the camera to get steady results, and I think I understood, but I'd sure like to see it. Also, if you could have your assistant film a few of these other tricks, like the one mentioned earlier in this thread, that would be great too. Then, just post the WMV file, much like you did with the wedding video, and give us the link. You don't need to provide voiceover, or graphics, or long explanations: just a few seconds showing you doing your thing.