I actually just stumbled upon this and was really impressed. Below is the actual commercial and the behind the scenes video.
CANON Commercial - Freeze Tag from Saman Keshavarz on Vimeo.
CANON Commercial - Freeze Tag from Saman Keshavarz on Vimeo.
Dan Bartolucci and Gevorg Karensky over at Influxlab have put together a little montage video for everyone to see how they rigged the car camera up for the latest BMW M3 commercial. I'm sure many of you have wondered how they secured a camera when being so wreckless in a car; I guess now we all know.
I came across this story after watching some late night Carson Daily while editing some work (sound familiar?), and I thought our readers would appreciate it. If you aren't one of the 12 million people who have already seen this video, check it out below. For their latest video, This Too Shalll Pass, Okay Go decided to build a Rube Goldberg Machine and film it unfold in one take.
So this is really cool. Ryan Hughes was in film; then he got into still photography; and now he is blurring the mediums together. Watch Ryan explain how he shot his latest short "RGB MOVE" and the final product below.
RGB MOVE Behind The Scenes Documentary from Ryan Enn Hughes on Vimeo.
If you own a DSLR that does video (which most do by now), hopefully we have persuaded you to at least try some of the video capabilities. The reality is the DSLR is the wave of the future and more and more commercial and professional videos are being shot on these new cameras. Check out what Seth Epstein did when he was contacted by Suzuki to shoot a commercial for their latest bike.
This video was sent in by a reader a few weeks ago and I was completely blown away. However it really did not fit our format because we had no behind the scenes video to accompany it. Luckily Shane Hurlbut with Hurlbut Visuals decided to release a behind the scenes video showcasing why and how he used the Canon 5D Mark II for this short film.
Zimtstern, a clothing company needed a new commercial so they decided to advertise their snowboard apparel in a completely new way. Watch the behind the scenes video and the finished product below.
Behind the scenes
The finished product
A few days ago I posted Patrick's video of his friends jumping on a trampoline in the desert... I just ran across his skim boarding video on vimeo and I am once again smiling while I watch his work. You want to know how he did it? Simple; he put a GoPro HD Hero on a monopod and threw it around in the ocean. Love it!
Here at Fstoppers we have been working hard to bring you a good wide variety of different behind the scenes photoshoots. One of our readers worked with Kim Kardashian for the latest Carl's commercial promoting their grilled chicken salad.
The guys over at Zacuto have released their second video of their series that compares film cameras to the current lineup of DSLR cameras. In this video you will see how different ISOs compare across the various cameras tested. It's pretty interesting and this is about as thorough of a test you would probably ever care to run.
Check out the finished product below.
What Goes Up (The Desert) from Patrick Lawler on Vimeo.
The behind the scenes video here:
Behind The Scenes - What Goes Up (The Desert) from Patrick Lawler on Vimeo.
I was blown away when a reader sent us this video today of the latest commercial for the Nissan Sentra SE-R. In this video we have mini Nissan cars, remote controlled cameras on RC cars, remoted controlled cameras on RC helicopters, and so many more fun little creative tricks as well. Watch as the directors and crew discuss how it was made and check out the final commercial below.
Sam O’Hare is an aero director/ VFX artist who likes playing around with his camera from time to time. When I first saw this video, I thought it was a cool little video that featured a tilt shift lens and some solid Nikon video work. It was not until I read his blog that I found out I was wrong on both accounts: no tilt shift lens and no video!
Many of you have already seen this but if you haven't you should check it out. Zacuto (the company that makes add-ons for DSLR video) has put together the most extensive video quality test I have ever seen. You can check out this weeks video at http://www.zacuto.com/shootout . Below is just a trailer since the full video is not able to be embedded any longer
It must be food week because so many of the submissions we have gotten have been based on photographing edibles. Today's video features cinematographer Gary Jones and his team of stylists filming a 35mm Back Yard Burger television ad.
Chase Jarvis and his group of crazy friends show their behind the scenes footage of a shoot for Rusell Investments (yes they are shooting for an investment company). They are using the RED One cinema camera for high frame rate video and the Nikon D3s for standard HD video.
After posting yesterday's video on Alexx shooting triathlete Chris Lieto for the cover of Outside Magazine I was sent this awesome video of Alexx working on a new article for the Apple ipad. Hopefully after watching these two videos it should be clear where advertising is headed in the next 10 years with products like the ipad and creative minds like Alexx Henry.
What would you get if you combined the look of well lit photographs with the movement of videos and displayed them in a traditional print ad space? Watch what Alexx Henry and his production team do with the Red One camera. It will blow your mind! Check out his still portfolio as well; his work is definitely leading edge.
I'm one of those bloggers that is going to give credit where credit is due.
To read the full post about the multibridge software and how to get it working with CS4 go here
Adobe Premiere CS4 - The Basics; in a really creepy whisper voice
How to add effects to your video
Learn how to add text and titles
So yesterday we talked about setting your camera to shoot video. Today we get a little more complicated. Let's chat about audio. Tomorrow we will take it one step further and discuss the most dreaded part of video... editing! If you have a Canon camera that shoots video, view the full post to check out a video on audio made just for you.
I have been getting email after email from our readers saying that they are still photographers and even though their camera can shoot video they either don't think they can figure it out or they are not interested in learning.
This online film by director Adam Berg and Stink Digital (http://www.stinkdigital.tv/) took home the Cannes Lions 2009 Film Grand Prix, and boy did it deserve it! Developed to highlight Philips new 21:9 cinema proportion television, the film consists of one long tracking shot a la Goodfellas (albeit with more explosions and clowns). Check out the visual masterpiece
I always use to pride myself on being able to pick out CGI in movies and TV shows... 90% of these shots are impossible to spot though.
For the past year I have been trying to stay away from TV and I honestly can say that I had never seen this commercial before I watched this video. If I had I would have surely guessed that it was all computer graphics... I could not have been more wrong.
This little piece of awesomeness comes from a behind the scenes video for the 2010 Winter Olympic Games sponsor POWERade. Canadian NHL hockey player Jerome Iginla takes the ice in a promotional video for POWERade's new 2010 Olympic bottle campaign.