Comments on: The Wednesday Rundown 5.18.11

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 20 May 2011 14:07:00 +0000

We’ve been using the 5D quite a bit for video production and also have a single shot music video under our belt! Ours is a bit more complicated than Jordan’s however: http://vimeo.com/15438213

Shot on the 5D with a 24-70mm f2.8L. One single continuous dolly track.

By: levi tenenbaum

levi tenenbaum — Fri, 20 May 2011 01:32:00 +0000

joshua,

being one of the said ‘assistants’ in the video above I will bring to the discussion the following points:

1. first hand vouch for the passion and intensity that BrakhaX2 bring to a shoot.
2. there are two “photographers/creatives” involved and one of them doesn’t like sitting very much.
3. as thomas brought up from chase and vincent – as a creative you sometimes have to let other people do the work so you can think (that doesn’t mean expect them to and not help out). At the end of the day isn’t that what assistants are hired for?
4. it takes a team effort to produce a major idea/production and each role from shlepping to creating is played out by a particular team member ala motion pictures.

hope that help clarify things.

levi

By: thomas dunning

thomas dunning — Thu, 19 May 2011 04:20:00 +0000

Chase Jarvis’ conversation with Vincent laForet sheds some very clear light on the whole concept of how much you do vs. how much your assistants do – basic premise being that the most important thing for the photographer is executing your vision and at a certain level you’ll get much better results thinking only about that and having other people deal with a lot of the more tedious parts.

By: Roland Hernandez

Roland Hernandez — Wed, 18 May 2011 21:15:00 +0000

Nice song mister Jordan Craig.. starts off a little slow but still good. Camera work could’ve been smoother.

By: Nastase Alex

Nastase Alex — Wed, 18 May 2011 08:31:00 +0000

i liked the bike park too, but i really loved http://vimeo.com/22889551
Filmed with: Canon 1D mk4, 17-40mm, 15mm fisheye, 70-200mm, Manfrotto tripod
super talented this Luka Travas

By: Joshua Maurer

Joshua Maurer — Wed, 18 May 2011 06:53:00 +0000

I really liked the skate park one! That last one though a cool way of doing a BTS video I really have an issue with photographers sitting in a frickin chair having assistants doing everything. Sure he is directing them but it looks like so passionless…Maybe I say this because I have never been there but it still seems fundamentally wrong :P