Testing Cameras

In order for our video footage to be the best it can be we have decided to test out different cameras, lenses and focal ranges to see which camera best suits our interests and plans for the final music video.First we have borrowed a camera from college, a Panasonic HC-V110 2.51 MP Camcorder - 1080i

We used this camera in the studio with a few close ups of each character to test the focal range and depth of field of this camera. However we found that this camera was not as advanced for the shot types that we have planned on doing. For example we cannot do very good pull focuses with this camera and our planned footage includes a lot of them. The two videos below show the result from this camera.




 

After analysing this footage we have decided to use my own camera which is a Canon EOS 650D.

We have tested this camera out with some reccee footage on the beach location that we have planned - see blog post 'Testing Camera Focus & Tracking Shots'.