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.
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?
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.
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 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.
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?
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.
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.