Call for collaboration - Heartland 50

[Bamboopictures]

Great pleasure and honour meeting so many inspirational clubsnappers today! I hope everyone will have an enjoyable time shooting and experimenting on this collaboration. Do shoot with your heart and express yourselves freely. Truly excited to see your unique perspectives and vision of your "kampong." Hopefully, more contributors will follow suit and add their bits to the collage of clips.
As Jace and PettyPoh highlighted, this is could well be first of many future collaborations. Already, there are strong chemistry between members. Heartland 50, could be a good platform to find your next "partner in crime"
Meeting face-to-face like today, is a wonderful opportunity to break the ice and find common interests. Filmmaking is a team sport and if you find new friends who click with yourself on same wavelengths, you can bring your next co-production to the next level.
For this first video, I think it's best to keep the tone apolitical, heartfelt, and balanced. Tough criterion to adhere to but perhaps the final product could be richer for it if we look at ourselves honestly and show the bad, the good, the ugly and the beautiful. Your thoughts please!

 

[Deunamist]

thanks for the chat guys, nice to meet people from a forum.. In some ways it reminded me of the roots which eventually became my current company: a bunch of guys coming together on some random Sunday to discuss a vision. however, that first project didn't work out very well but I am fully confident this will. cheers!

 

[pettypoh]

Great pleasure and honour meeting so many inspirational clubsnappers today! I hope everyone will have an enjoyable time shooting and experimenting on this collaboration. Do shoot with your heart and express yourselves freely. Truly excited to see your unique perspectives and vision of your "kampong." Hopefully, more contributors will follow suit and add their bits to the collage of clips.
As Jace and PettyPoh highlighted, this is could well be first of many future collaborations. Already, there are strong chemistry between members. Heartland 50, could be a good platform to find your next "partner in crime"
Meeting face-to-face like today, is a wonderful opportunity to break the ice and find common interests. Filmmaking is a team sport and if you find new friends who click with yourself on same wavelengths, you can bring your next co-production to the next level.
For this first video, I think it's best to keep the tone apolitical, heartfelt, and balanced. Tough criterion to adhere to but perhaps the final product could be richer for it if we look at ourselves honestly and show the bad, the good, the ugly and the beautiful. Your thoughts please!

agreed! so much potential and skills from everyone, and this collaboration is really to help everyone come together, learn together, try together

thanks for the chat guys, nice to meet people from a forum.. In some ways it reminded me of the roots which eventually became my current company: a bunch of guys coming together on some random Sunday to discuss a vision. however, that first project didn't work out very well but I am fully confident this will. cheers!

it was great to be able to meet up with you and so many others from this forum. the "chit-chat" session is really good and it's really encouraging to see such positive response and participation from everyone

if anybody would like to set up more sessions, can be to discuss "post production" or attempt "new shooting technique" or arrange for "combined-shooting" etc..., do feel free to let everyone know and whoever is interested and available can join in as well.

 

[RyanKhoo]

Nice meeting up with everyone ... thanks for sharing your knowledge with me ... cheers

 

[RyanKhoo]

Hi my fellow friends,

If I wanna record a person talking but the background at the beach is quite loud, what is the best method ?

I do not want to totally eliminate the sound of the beach but I wanna to be able to increase the sound of vocal in post and decrease (but not totally turn off) the sound of the beach in post ...

Thanks

 

[Deunamist]

lavalier mic bro. you might want to capture some ambience after in case the lavalier's ambience is not enough

 

[Bamboopictures]

Using a lav at the seaside can be tricky. A windjammer for the lav is almost a neccessity. You can make one with small hairy plush toy/earwarmer and loom band/hair band/dental band. Daiso has every thing you need. Or shell out $35 for the real thing.

Turn on low-cut filter if you have one in your camera. If using FCPX, select enhance vocal EQ and play with the background noise reduction slider.

 

[RyanKhoo]

Using a lav at the seaside can be tricky. A windjammer for the lav is almost a neccessity. You can make one with small hairy plush toy/earwarmer and loom band/hair band/dental band. Daiso has every thing you need. Or shell out $35 for the real thing.

Turn on low-cut filter if you have one in your camera. If using FCPX, select enhance vocal EQ and play with the background noise reduction slider.

lavalier mic bro. you might want to capture some ambience after in case the lavalier's ambience is not enough

Ok I rephrase my question, what I meant to ask is how to setup my camera so that the left channel is the vocal while the right channel is the ambience sound ? Is that possible ?

So that when I import to the timeline, I can easily up left channel and down the right channel ...

Thanks

 

[pchengws]

Hi,

My experience with video recording with a camera is merely press the red button and try to record a short burst of video recording (no more than 5 minutes)for tour documentation only. I cannot even edit a video recording properly.

I had a request to record for a exercise group to record their steps with music, the recording went on quite acceptable but not the sound recording. I had problem to make the sound right ever since.

I like to learn more videography in depth if this is a right place for me to pick up skill and collaborate with some one to enhance my interest, please let me know of the next meeting place and time. I am very keen in learn more as I have a lot of free time now as a retired person and hopefully can put my time in good use.

Thank you.

 

[Bamboopictures]

Thanks for your interest! We will likely have another get together early August. Will keep you posted!
In the meantime, feel free to post your questions here and do try shooting around your neighbourhood for interesting clips.
If you can tell us the model of camera you are using, we'll be able suggest how you can manage the footage you've shot.

 

[pchengws]

Thank you for your prompt reply & invite.

I have Nikon D7000 & D800 plus Oly EM-1.

I have also the basic question, neighbourhood interesting clips can you give me some guide lines what are the interesting stories I can consider? Few stories into one or whole story about one topic or person?

Thanks.

 

[Bamboopictures]

Thank you for your prompt reply & invite.

I have Nikon D7000 & D800 plus Oly EM-1.

I have also the basic question, neighbourhood interesting clips can you give me some guide lines what are the interesting stories I can consider? Few stories into one or whole story about one topic or person?

Thanks.

If you download the free Gopro studio software
http://shop.gopro.com/APAC/softwareandapp/gopro-studio/GoPro-Studio.html
You can split the clips you recorded and compile the best bits while replacing the bad audio with the pristine WAV file of the music used during the exercise routine. Depending on the variety of shots you have, you can make a shorten version of the song and keep the duration of each clip shorter. This will make the video more interesting. Some basic instructions here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aeB_wNJOySM&list=PLnWrVWj1APWsUbqzLQb6i_JiT3PfKfhNb

As for the "Heartland 50 video", there is no need for narrative or continuity. Feel free to submit individual standalone clips that are compositionally interesting, or rarelu noticed, or emotionally engaging. If it means something to you, tell us about it.
It will be great to see our landscape through your eyes.

 

[Bamboopictures]

Ok I rephrase my question, what I meant to ask is how to setup my camera so that the left channel is the vocal while the right channel is the ambience sound ? Is that possible ?

So that when I import to the timeline, I can easily up left channel and down the right channel ...

Thanks

Ryan, if you already have a lav, Deunamist's method is better. Use the lav for the interview. Then record a few minutes of the ambient sound after the interview. If you record both at the same time, you may get a slight echo of the talent's voice if the sound on the shotgun/stereo mic come later than then the audio from the lav.
But if you want safety recording, you can use a beachtek or juicedlink adapter in stereo mode (different mic on each channel )
or assemble the following cables and connectors:
Male 3.5mm to stereo RCA Female

3.5 mm Female Jack To RCA Male Plug Mono Adapter x 2

But if you are trying get natural stereo mapping on you video, a good stereo mic (eg Rode stereo videomic) placed
near the talent will be awesome! (Use an extension cable) Altenatively, use the XY capsule mic of a zoom recorder
[video=youtube;l9LmO9VQ1M0]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l9LmO9VQ1M0[/video]

 

[Deunamist]

welcome onboard pchengws!

 

[pettypoh]

Hi,

My experience with video recording with a camera is merely press the red button and try to record a short burst of video recording (no more than 5 minutes)for tour documentation only. I cannot even edit a video recording properly.

I had a request to record for a exercise group to record their steps with music, the recording went on quite acceptable but not the sound recording. I had problem to make the sound right ever since.

I like to learn more videography in depth if this is a right place for me to pick up skill and collaborate with some one to enhance my interest, please let me know of the next meeting place and time. I am very keen in learn more as I have a lot of free time now as a retired person and hopefully can put my time in good use.

Thank you.

great to have you onboard for this collaboration, i think you will be able to pick up some video/audio skills over this collaboration. during the last outing, everyone was chit-chatting and involved in small group interactions already -- very encouraging

very likely the practise sessions or group outings will be the best time to meet, learn, try, fail, learn some more until succeed =)

 

[pettypoh]

Hi my fellow friends,

If I wanna record a person talking but the background at the beach is quite loud, what is the best method ?

I do not want to totally eliminate the sound of the beach but I wanna to be able to increase the sound of vocal in post and decrease (but not totally turn off) the sound of the beach in post ...

Thanks

@ryankhoo > i have zoom h1 -- let me know if you want to take and test? i'm not familiar with audio recording systems, but i think having 2 audio devices will be able to get you the result you were looking for?

 

[RyanKhoo]

@ryankhoo > i have zoom h1 -- let me know if you want to take and test? i'm not familiar with audio recording systems, but i think having 2 audio devices will be able to get you the result you were looking for?

Ok petty, you need to teach me how to use these Zoom product. I have a Zoom H4 and it's bulky and huge ! JacePhoto showed me before his Zoom H1 ... very small and practical ...

 

[RyanKhoo]

Hi Rodney,

Do you know how to adjust the exposure compensation in VG30 ?

My video of the fireworks taken in VG30 are all mostly white instead of colourful. I wanted to to lower the exposure by say 1 or 1 and two third stop but I cannot figure out how to lower down the exposure compensation in VG30.

Any tips ?

Thanks

 

[pettypoh]

Ok petty, you need to teach me how to use these Zoom product. I have a Zoom H4 and it's bulky and huge ! JacePhoto showed me before his Zoom H1 ... very small and practical ...

u always get the good stuff =) wana swop h1 for h4? hehehe

 

[JacePhoto]

I am open to swop too! Haha