King Black Acid – Let’s Burn (music video shot with HVX200)

[Christopher Wright]

What, no gratuitous chick shots??
Just the band??
Otherwise, very MTV…

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Windows Vista Adobe Studio CS4, Vegas 8.0, Lightwave 9.3, Sound Forge 9, Acid Pro 7, Continuum 5, Boris Red 4, Combustion 2008, Sapphire Effects

[Jeremiah Scott]

For some reason I accidentally posted two identical links to YouTube instead of one for MySpace as well so here it is…

MySpace

Thanks!
~Jeremiah

Jeremiah L Scott
Cinematographer/Photographer/Director
Revolver DMS

[Billy Morocco]

Jeremiah,

Very nice. I like the way you integrated fast cutting and more expansive, detailed shots. I wonder if I could ask a question, since I have just been asked to work on a video for a friend’s group.
For the fast moving shots; I especially mean the fast, short zooms in and out… Is any of this frenetic movement done in camera? If I were to have to recreate your moves, I’d do them in FCP. But I’m wondering if maybe there are some standard camera moves that go with such production.

Thanks. And thanks especially for the description of the set.

Bill M

[Jeremiah Scott]

Hey there Bill,

Thanks so much for the feedback. I really appreciate it.

The fast zooms in and out were done in camera. I turn everything auto off on my camera, have my hand on the front of the lens and pull in and out really fast and quick to focus when necessary. Every once in a while I speed things up, or reversed it, or pulled out a few frames here and there, or repeated 2 or 3 frames in FCP but most everything was done in camera. I’ve listeded to the song so much that I really just tried to move the camera with the music. It didn’t always work but then again I didn’t use those shots. 🙂

If you have any specific shots you would like explained I would be happy to dissect.

Thanks!
~Jeremiah

Jeremiah L Scott
Cinematographer/Photographer/Director
Revolver DMS

[Billy Morocco]

Jeremiah,

As I am new to the camera, and haven’t watched videos in years, I’ll take you up on your offer. Around 3:50 there are some slo-mo / speed adjusted shots. Are these also completely in-camera? – the result of takes with higher shutter speeds?

Thanks for the detail on the in-camera work. After a couple more viewings I start to see how the multiple takes interact. I start to feel better about how I’ll be able to plot out this video.

One thing I start to realize, when thinking about shooting a “live” video (I mean just the band, and not a narrative with the song as background): I think it is important to restrict yourself to a few effects. I like how you used blurs, and image adjustments during the instrumental bridge. It sort-of kept the parts of the song more distinct.
I’m making a note of that. Thankfully, I will be working on a sort-of country song, so I won’t have that pace to keep up with.

thanks a lot, again.

BM

[Jeremiah Scott]

Heya,

Yes, all of those shots starting at 3:50 are all done in camera (slomo and fast). The HVX200 definitely has that feature so make sure you play around with it before hand. When you overcrank or undercrank with that camera it will not record audio however so you will need to sync things up by eye in FCP. If you have the manual it will tell you how to set it up. You will still want to shoot in 720p 24pN but it will be an additional setting in the menu. Easy to locate in the manual. The exact way to do it escapes me at the moment as I’m at work and can’t look at the menu but like I said it easy so definitely play around with it.

Yeah, because I was dealing with a 4 and 1/2 minute song and only doing performance I wanted to make sure it stayed fresh throughout. I made sure that if I did an effect that I didn’t show off all of them right at the beginning.

Thanks,
~Jeremiah

Jeremiah L Scott
Cinematographer/Photographer/Director
Revolver DMS