[Erin Cantelo]

In response to the other comment about P2 cards:

Quite frankly you will be wasting your time if you DON’T shoot on P2 cards. You won’t have HD footage and the whole point of shooting on the HVX is to have decent looking HD at a user friendly cost. From one director to another, do yourself a favor and cough up the money yourself if you have to. There is barely a point in shooting the project if you don’t. Seriously- you will HIGHLY regret it if you don’t shoot on P2. Especially if you have a lighting budget – are getting free lights – whatever.

Don’t waste your time and the crews time by delivering a substandard quality just because someone couldn’t scrape together a measly hundred bucks. And heck, if you’re a student I’m sure someone will be able to give you a discount. (As a director, I would rather not buy groceries and spend that money on the project to not only better represent myself, but to give the best quality production available to the band as well!)

Also, if your DP actually knows what they are doing, they should know this stuff and should have already rallied to shoot on P2.

Best of luck with the project. I sincerely hope you take our advice.