Ever find yourself with a media card that was “accidentally” formatted? How about a card that had an error caused by the camera overheating or running out of battery?
Don’t pull out your hair thinking all your hard work is lost. There’s a chance your footage or stills can be saved, at least the ones that haven’t been overwritten.
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So this is Graveyard Carz, the world’s first reality TV show shot entirely on HDSLR cameras: namely a Canon 7D and 5D.
The Digital Post Production blog has a post that spells out the details and is packed with quotes from the team, particularly exec producer Casey Faris.
Wired magazine has caught up with the changes sweeping filmmaking, with a short piece on some DSLR successes of the last couple of years.
This lovely little short shows what you can do with a couple of people, a couple of cameras (in this case a Canon 5D and a Canon 550D) and a couple of sliders.
Since the earlier post detailing the HDSLR rig we were using for the ABC Family commercials, my team has done several more tv commercials and have extensively refined the kit. The last setup was highly functional but a bit of a Frankenstein monster.
The new rig is more compact, cleaner and more functional, especially from the standpoint of pulling focus — which is kind of a big deal. You can see the new rig in the slideshow below. The major changes outlined underneath.
For a recent project I just completed, we needed a lot of footage from many locations but were on a tight budget and even tighter time schedule. This is a common situation in commercial work. Speed of production is where HDSLR cameras can make the previously impossible more viable.
On the “Cages & Light” branded film, we needed to shoot many different settings, and do it quickly as well as inconspicuously. The 5D we shot it on made this possible.
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