{"id":4233,"date":"2009-07-11T08:45:18","date_gmt":"2009-07-11T08:45:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/philipbloom.co.uk\/?p=4233"},"modified":"2009-07-12T09:51:28","modified_gmt":"2009-07-12T09:51:28","slug":"shooting-on-5dmkii-with-candlelight-glidetrack-vari-nds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/philipbloom.net\/blog\/shooting-on-5dmkii-with-candlelight-glidetrack-vari-nds\/","title":{"rendered":"Shooting on 5dmkII with candlelight, glidetrack, vari-nds"},"content":{"rendered":"

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This week I did another Canon 5dMkII shoot. It was for a client of mine , Russian Hour<\/a> , whom I went to Siberia with three times last year. You can see a couple of the shorts I shot out there here<\/a> and here<\/a>. It was to film famous Russian actor Boris Burlyaev read the poems of Dmitry Mizgulin. The location was Chiswick, West London, at the Russian Orthodox Church.<\/p>\n

Originally it was going to be an EX3\/ Relay\/ Letus Ultimate Shoot but the plan was to use lots of candlelight so that meant that it was not going to work. That’s a pretty good low light combination, adaptor wise, but not sensitive enough for what I needed. So it was the 5dmkII again with it’s astonishing low light capabilities. Down side was recording sound separately and having to convert to 25p in post. But there was little movement, all on tripod with dolly shots so the rolling shutter issues of the 5d would not cause a problem. As long as you are aware of the camera’s limitations you can get great stuff from it.<\/p>\n

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First off was the Glidetrack compact<\/a> (turn your sound down when clicking on that link!), a great little device that gave me a really simple way of getting a simple dolly move without having to set up my whole dolly and track. It just went on top of my miller head and I fixed a manfrotto head from my monopod onto the top. I used it the first reading in the video below and in about 6 different shots in the finished film. It looks great, works really well and is incredibly light.<\/p>\n

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When I decided to go down the 5d route I asked for a proper sound recordist. Yes at a push I could do it myself as it’s just one speaker but this film was all about the beauty of Dmitry’s words so the sound needed to be incredible. So I got Alan Hill, a veteran of many drama and documentaries to record sound for me<\/a>. He was brilliant. Everything sounded amazing in the end and he really had top of the line gear . He used one DPA 406 personal microphone on the actor and a 416 and a MKH30 mixed over the top to get a stereo atmosphere. The mixer was a sound devices 442 and the recorder a 744t. He recorded onto one of my CF cards and also onto the built in hard drive as a back up. I used a Rode VideoMic directional mic for the 5d<\/a> or Gh1. I wanted good clean in camera audio for sync. It’s a good mic for general 5d atmos, but I also really like the power switch and light in my eye-line so I know it is working, especially with the terrible sound limitations with the Canon of knowing if any sound is being recorded.<\/p>\n

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