So I now have some seven videos in demo form for the video of the wedding (with nary a second yet to be filmed) and last night got a dvd burned to test everything out and it seems good.. Today I put the final test video in the can as it were and will hope to check it shortly.. Last night I'm thinking how perfect am I shooting for and then it hit me.. The harder I try for perfection the more it will be out of my grasp so rather than try hard just let it come to me. All the best videos I have ever shot were near accidental.. Just happened to be at the right place at the right time..
A few rules I have always lived by when shooting video of anything : ONE: don't be in the moment be of the moment, which is to say show what is happening, don't be part of it.. Two: Don't do any fancy shit with the camera, that's what the studio (computer) is for and while the analog camera was just type graphic on the dvd burner, the digital camera does afford me the ability to do much more as far as effects, a great number of which I just discovered while messing with the latest test videos,, (will these be uploaded here?? No, simple they are the same video with new music and test sequences that I think would be extremely boring to watch, unless you like to see the evolution of a project coming together, look for the box set...) I try to get the best video I can, and try to be as a witness to anything I shoot.. Try to get the event as if someone who wasn't there feels like after watching the video it was the next best thing to being there..
I'm gonna try to shoot the first little bit of the rehearsal as documentary style kinda the way Donald and Lucy's wedding rehearsal was shot (which wasn't the way I was planning to shoot it, that just happened by complete accident), but unlike theirs I plan to shoot the run through from one of the places I plan to shoot the wedding at.. Test shot for sound and video angle.. I wasn't happy with where the camera was for Donald's wedding.. I originally thought it was a good place but then watching the video and the sound was more than horrible. My camera has a zoom mic which the analog camera doesn't, so that should help no matter where the camera is placed.. Also the digital camera has 70x (optical) to 100x (digital) zoom which means I could possibly be in the catholic church across the street and get good video.. Actually the camera has 3500x digital zoom which means if the Earth was flat and this was an outdoors wedding I wouldn't even have to leave home to get the video.. Just joking, actually digital zoom isn't that great.. It degrades quite quickly.. Pixilates really bad.. Thinking about maybe using the analog camera for a front of the house shot maybe.. I'm gonna see how it goes Friday with the placement of the digital cam.. I have a few tuts on the 'tube to watch and get ideas from there...
I did those final two test videos in the settings I thought might make everything work.. First off instead of setting the videos to avi I set them to dvd files and then burn to dvd disc and watched them that way.. There really isn't much lost in doing to avi first then to dvd but it just makes more sense to go to the format that will be burned to disc.. Then I had an aspect ratio that I tried and that has completed the way things will be done at least on the final production..
School starts next week??? Where did the summer go?? I know where it went, I could hardly wait to get to this point.. Too hot, I have never really like summer except for the vacation from school... Ready for football to start.. Stop running the fans on high.. Smell the pine trees that have that smell when school starts.. The leaves changing colour.. My pumpkin patch that will yield a whopping NO pumpkins this year.. What happened there I don't know.. The Earth box seems to be working quite well, the Roma tomato is no longer taller than I am, the fruits are weighing it down.. The Roma tomato plant grew well from seed but the fruits are small.. I talked to my uncle before the season started and he said he tried to from from seed but the fruits were always really small.. I think I am seeing what he means.. I will evaluate how I feel about next year at the end of this season..
Earlier I thought of starting the alternate site (Infinite Improbability) and was all set to have that be a video only site (where all the test videos would be) but I have found another site and might do that there.. Make a video exclusively site.. Saw another guys "shitty video phone" video site.. I think it might be better there but I am still in the looking phase, although I would like it going before too long..
Badge Henry (rare with a white whine sauce)
A few rules I have always lived by when shooting video of anything : ONE: don't be in the moment be of the moment, which is to say show what is happening, don't be part of it.. Two: Don't do any fancy shit with the camera, that's what the studio (computer) is for and while the analog camera was just type graphic on the dvd burner, the digital camera does afford me the ability to do much more as far as effects, a great number of which I just discovered while messing with the latest test videos,, (will these be uploaded here?? No, simple they are the same video with new music and test sequences that I think would be extremely boring to watch, unless you like to see the evolution of a project coming together, look for the box set...) I try to get the best video I can, and try to be as a witness to anything I shoot.. Try to get the event as if someone who wasn't there feels like after watching the video it was the next best thing to being there..
I'm gonna try to shoot the first little bit of the rehearsal as documentary style kinda the way Donald and Lucy's wedding rehearsal was shot (which wasn't the way I was planning to shoot it, that just happened by complete accident), but unlike theirs I plan to shoot the run through from one of the places I plan to shoot the wedding at.. Test shot for sound and video angle.. I wasn't happy with where the camera was for Donald's wedding.. I originally thought it was a good place but then watching the video and the sound was more than horrible. My camera has a zoom mic which the analog camera doesn't, so that should help no matter where the camera is placed.. Also the digital camera has 70x (optical) to 100x (digital) zoom which means I could possibly be in the catholic church across the street and get good video.. Actually the camera has 3500x digital zoom which means if the Earth was flat and this was an outdoors wedding I wouldn't even have to leave home to get the video.. Just joking, actually digital zoom isn't that great.. It degrades quite quickly.. Pixilates really bad.. Thinking about maybe using the analog camera for a front of the house shot maybe.. I'm gonna see how it goes Friday with the placement of the digital cam.. I have a few tuts on the 'tube to watch and get ideas from there...
I did those final two test videos in the settings I thought might make everything work.. First off instead of setting the videos to avi I set them to dvd files and then burn to dvd disc and watched them that way.. There really isn't much lost in doing to avi first then to dvd but it just makes more sense to go to the format that will be burned to disc.. Then I had an aspect ratio that I tried and that has completed the way things will be done at least on the final production..
School starts next week??? Where did the summer go?? I know where it went, I could hardly wait to get to this point.. Too hot, I have never really like summer except for the vacation from school... Ready for football to start.. Stop running the fans on high.. Smell the pine trees that have that smell when school starts.. The leaves changing colour.. My pumpkin patch that will yield a whopping NO pumpkins this year.. What happened there I don't know.. The Earth box seems to be working quite well, the Roma tomato is no longer taller than I am, the fruits are weighing it down.. The Roma tomato plant grew well from seed but the fruits are small.. I talked to my uncle before the season started and he said he tried to from from seed but the fruits were always really small.. I think I am seeing what he means.. I will evaluate how I feel about next year at the end of this season..
Earlier I thought of starting the alternate site (Infinite Improbability) and was all set to have that be a video only site (where all the test videos would be) but I have found another site and might do that there.. Make a video exclusively site.. Saw another guys "shitty video phone" video site.. I think it might be better there but I am still in the looking phase, although I would like it going before too long..
Badge Henry (rare with a white whine sauce)
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