Shane Hurlbut’s HDSLR Bootcamp
Here’s an opportunity you don’t get very often. A talented and successful filmmaker with summer blockbuster DP experience teaching an intensive hands on workshop for intermediate HDSLR shooters. Shane has really embraced HDSLR filmmaking, driven more by being able to stretch his creative reach than his budget. As he showed at last year’s Collision Conference, his kit consists of 12 HDSLRs rigged up for various scenarios and ready to go.
Shane is a very enthusiastic speaker and you can catch him giving lectures at schools and filmmaking events around the world (he’ll be the Saturday Keynote Speaker at our upcoming HDSLR filmmaking expo). But what you don’t get in seminars is real world, hands on field experience with Shane and his team as instructors and mentors. From the HDSLR Bootcamp website, this two day bootcamp covers:
MASTER THE CAMERA
Camera menu breakdown of the Canon 5D, 7D and 1D cameras with menus projected for easy viewing.
Prep a camera package at Alternative Rentals prep floor. Color balance the Canons using Dream Color monitors.
Create picture styles using the picture style editor.
MASTER THE GEAR
Build, teardown, and reconfigure rigs and follow focus systems. Discuss the quirks of different still lenses as well as PV and PL mount lenses.
Maximize efficiency by setting Canon camera packages up on carts and learn backpack systems for inland and ocean preparedness.
Review the unique quirks and common pitfalls of the cameras.
MASTER THE SET
Shoot in a pre-lit studio space with an actress. Set up the Canon cameras on a dolly, tape out lenses and practice pulling focus at low f-stops. Build a video village for a hypothetical client and director. Record, download and send to editorial with proper labeling. Save time on the set with accurate media management workflow.
Prep for a location shoot. Build a handheld configuration and set up wireless video to a director’s monitor. Shoot a walk and talk with an actress. Reconfigure to man cam mode for cut aways. Learn a variety of still and cinema style lenses with ND filtration. Save footage to hard drive and view it later in a screening room.
At $3250 this workshop might seem pricey to the average HDSLR shooter but the experience gained in two days of instruction from a master like Shane is really priceless. You normally would have to spend months, if not years, working as a camera assistant to get access to this kind of filmmaking insights. If you are serious about getting to the next level as an HDSLR filmmaker, there shouldn’t be any hesitation in signing up for this workshop.
