Over the past few months I have seen the popularity of shooting DSLR video rise at an exponential rate. These cameras are becoming increasingly popular to use for music videos and clients are requesting more and more to use them specifically instead of HD camcorders. I think they are so great for music video work. There's usually a lot to get through and a minimal crew so the small size and ease of set ups makes the shoot day quite productive. Robb Cox and myself have been collaborating under Rusty Gate Films to produce music videos and we recently shot a clip for country music artist Bec Lavelle. We used a combination of DSLR and Sony EX-3/NanoFlash with Letus adapter for the clip. The sensitivity of the DSLR was great for small lighting setups and the size and weight of the DSLR meant we could use it on the Kessler Pocket Dolly quite easily for dolly shots out in a field with high grass. We used the EX-3 on the jib arm for the main performance coverage. Robb had some Canon glass with manual controls on the front of the Letus. I also used the Zacuto shoulder mount rig for some hand held shots. The clip is currently being edited and we will post the final result over at rustygatefilms.comWhen it comes to workflow we run it fairly tight so we ensure the data integrity. We have always put an emphasis on the importance of data wrangling & workflow from shooting lots of P2 footage over the years. We cycle the cards off the DSLR's and Nano Flash regularly and transcode it into final cut pro using the Pro Res codec. From there we replicate the Final Cut Capture scratch on another drive so we have two copies of it straightaway on separate drives so we can safely re-format the CF card. Here is a behind the scenes clip of the production.
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