DSLR Camera's as apposed to Big TV Camera's

In recent times, music video's, tv shows and even some films are now being shot using smaller DSLR camera's as apposed to big shoulder mounted tv style cameras. This is for many reasons, first of all it is much easier to carry around lighter weighted equipment, secondly the quality can be better as different lenses allow different types of light to be consumed and frame rate can constantly be changed.

To shoot my music video, I will therefore be using a combination of two camera's, these will both be DSLR. One is the Canon 550D and the other one will be the Canon 5D. It is usually not reccommend to use two different types of camera's however in this case as the two models are almost identical with only slight differences, I believe that the 5D will be better for some shots and vice versa.

To get my head around this new style of filming I had to first play around with the DSLR. These camera's have a main purpose of being photography camera's and can shoot some amazing imagery. I therefore firstly took some photographs while changing settings on aperture, then changed things such as frame speed to see differences and what works best.

I later used these settings on video mode as this is what my main intention in using the camera.




The first picture shows where the appeture is very low and clearly the background of my model (reece) is very blury and allows him to stand out.

The second image however is of Reece with a very high appeture setting, here, everything including the background is in focus.

Location Recce

Above are some shot's of locations I may use in my music video that I have access to. These include public places in Central London such as the greenery in front of Westminster Abbey, A skate park in North London, a set of hills on the outskirts of London and Alexandra Palace.

Tuesday 29th November Shooting

Believe in me video shoot

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Storyboard

Idea Test?

I had an idea that I wanted to play about with, but I couldn't really tell if it would work unless I actually created it! So, I told my little sister to do a few simple things to try and portray the concept. Ofcourse, this is not any actual footage for my final music video, just a test shot. There will be continuity errors!

Screen Test

For the artists in my music video, I first of all wrote down on a sheet paper all of the people that I could use to portray an artist. After making this list, I realised one thing, none of these people are actual artists or have been in a music video before... which isn't necessarily a problem. However, how much better would it be if I could use REAL artist(s)?

So I contacted this underground UK rap group known as the 'Marvell Boys'

They have a fanbase of around 50,000 subscribers and listeners and get over 100,000 views on each of their videos. The kind artists agreed to let me use them in mu music video, fundamentally, this is a great time saver as I do not have to train someone how to behave infront of a camera.

Here is a clip I made of some of their work in a montage:

Call Sheet

Call Sheet