Starting internal video production. What camera and gear to use?

[Nathan Bayless]

Thanks Steve, I’ll have to rent one of those soon. I like the IDEA of a cinematic camera look when a tripod can be set up in a little studio, but I’ll unfortunately have to be realistic about what would be best for our situation.

[Nathan Bayless]

Yeah, for the company cruises, my boss pays for his top hundred or so salesmen from the previous summer to go on the cruise. I assume things would be pretty busy trying to get footage of all the events he does and the little stuff that happen in between.

[Mark Suszko]

Talk to entertainers that work the cruise circuit. When you work on a cruise ship, you don’t live the life of a guest/passenger: you’re more like crew… you tend to get the small cabins with no view, you may have to eat apart from the guests, you don’t get to do all the same fun stuff they do so much, because you’re working, AND, there’s no place to get away from it when you’re not working. When I did weddings, I could never stop to eat or enjoy anything at the receptions, even when the couple budgeted a seat for me, because I was WORKING and shooting or prepping to shoot the entire time. That’s just for a few hours on one night, but on a cruise, it could be like that, day and night, for a week or more. Not always glamorous.

I did do a 2 and a half day seminar taping gig in San Francisco once, long ago, and there, I did get one evening “off the clock” to go see the town from about 7 to 10 on a week night. Enjoyed fresh crab meat and scenery at Aliotto’s on the Embarcadero there very much, and rode a cable car and that was it, had to get to bed and be up early for the return flight.

[Margot Kelly]

There are plenty of web and youtube tutorials you can use to improve the overall look of the videos. But while the equipment is important, the framing and look of the production is what really makes it effective. I agree that getting a professional, light crew in who know a bit more about lighting and the best type of shots to get will help the product and also teach you a fair bit about what to do in the process. Setting up a good relationship with a production company means it becomes very time efficient and you can get more hands on with the process 🙂

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[Karen Baldwin]

I got my BMCC I have been inspired to understand the art of cinematography better. I have been doing ENG type stuff for so long that I hadn’t had any real good recent practice with proper lighting.