Miniature Las Vegas

While I was in Las Vegas a few weeks ago I took a bit of time out to film some scenes with my Canon S95 camera.   It's got this fun miniature / tilt shift feature that blurs the top and bottom of the image while speeding up the picture either 10 or 20 times (in this short film).

I enjoy doing the filming, but hate editing video, so this is basically just drag/dropped out of the camera with a couple of titles and some music added.

Celebrations for the Azura naming in Southampton

So, my first ever properly put together movie.

It's the first time I've gone out with my Canon 5D Mark II with the sole purpose of putting together a short film from the footage.  My subject was the celebrations in the Mayflower Park, Southampton for the naming of the P&O boat Azura.  As I couldn't get near the boat I was concentrating on the goings on at the park and the firework finale.

I shot everything except the fireworks hand held and I know I'd have been better off using a tripod.  I'm quite pleased with the results, and very pleased with the amazing quality from the 5D.  The quality of this little camera is so good even the professionals are starting to use it.  The season finale to House has apparently been filmed exclusively with the 5D.  Interesting times indeed.

If there are any proper film makers reading this, I'd quite like to pick your brains.  I feel my editing is kinda "meh"...  "so so..." at best.  I'd like to improve it, but I really don't know how.

Update:  Yes I'm aware the music is kinda awful.  It's all I have.  If anyone would like to donate me 3 minutes of music that would work for this film it would be muchly appreciated.

Jan Jack – A Day At The Zoo

For the last year or so I've had a camera (Canon 5d Mark II) that I've known is capable of near broadcast / movie quality video.  It's taken me what seems like forever to actually use it for something productive.

This video is the first of several I'm planning to do to demonstrate the quality of the work I'm able to produce.  I'm not totally happy with the quality of the sound.  There's too much background noise.  I'll be working hard to get the sound quality up to the same level as the picture quality.

The video features Jan Jack reading her own poem "A Day At The Zoo".