I’ve got all sorts of projects on the go at the moment. I’m trying to make as much as I can. The most important thing for me is to keep working in a similar vein, but also be actively expanding my reel.
I am currently looking at doing 2 music videos, one short play, an ad/promo piece, a series of live music events and a Quartet of shorts set around Yorkshire. And it seems, through coincidence, that I’m using the Canon 5D2 for all of them!! Let’s just see how easy that will be!
I’m going to talk about the projects individually and post a few clips and photos. I think some of the projects are more to my tastes than others, but I’m looking forward to using the 5D2 properly now that Canon have fixed the Auto-Expose function. So far I have been very impressed. Going to be trying a bit of handheld and manual focus pulling and getting dirty with After Effects for the music promos and then I’m going to try and treat the 5D like a traditional ‘movie’ camera, if there is such a thing these days, for the drama shorts.
I’m a little worried that I might be spreading myself too thin with such diverse projects. My only hope is that I can maintain a level of artistic consistency throughout that will give all the work the right feel in relation to each other, so that as a reel, they work to show people my style, as I intended it to be.
There is some 5D test footage for the music promo here.