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GH2 Footage - "Shack in the Back" Music Video


  • Background
    These shots were taken as pick-ups to be included in the more complex, official "Shack in the "Back with Us" music video. The official video is produced/edited by LA filmmaker Todd Segal which includes fancy cars, flying objects and more complex elements.

    This edit is intended to provide material for filmmakers using or considering the GH system as a filmmaking tool.

    Camera used for this shoot:
    Filmed entirely with Panasonic Gh2 (hacked).

    Lenses:
    Standard Panasonic 4/3 lenses...
    Primary... 14 - 140mm w/ OS on
    100-300mm w/OS on... used sparingly
    7-14mm was used for one shot... overhead crane-up shot from drums.

    Settings
    Motion JPEG/HD, 30fps

    Support Gear
    Entire shoot was hand held, excepting a couple of specialty shots (crane up from drums and rotation shot in which a basic 557B Manfrotto mono-pod was used. (The OS on both the 14-140mm and the 100-300mm are exceptional and greatly minimize stability issues).

    Edit:
    The footage is straight out of the camera as shot, except processing to remove some sensor noise (^ISO) which was prominent in a few clips. Neat Video was used (fantastic plug-in) for this purpose... and only in automatic mode.

    Posted on Final Cut 7. (I did not find FCPX to be useful for this edit. (Just couldn't quite make the jump due to multi- clip sync issues)

    Lighting:
    Two or three desk lamps

    Production:
    About 3 hours of shooting. Filmed at Shack in the Back Studios. (somewhere out there:)

    VIDEO
    Director, DP, Editor... Robert Bruce Baldwin
    (aka robert da bruce:) big stick prod.
    co-producer... Ellen Bukstel (aka Queen Bee:)
    featuring: Brett Segal (The General) and Carla Barberis (Jampony Firefunk)

    MUSIC
    Title: Shack In The Back with Us
    Artist: The General (Brett Segal) feat. Anton, Jmic, Jennifer Sidney
    Music/Producer: The General (Brett Segal)
    Lyrics: The General (Brett Segal), Jmic and Anton
    Label: Shack In The Back Productions and Polyrhythm Publishing

    Official Release
    The official (music video) will be released in the very near future and will include elements filmed by Todd Segal which were previously shot entirely on the GH1 hack platform. Should be interesting to compare the Gh1/Gh2 platforms in the same mix. Stay turned

    Special thanks to Brett and Carla and the all the unmentioned super beings at Shack in the Back! ... RBB
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  • gh2 did great considering it was inside and mostly slow lenses, but lighting here helped..any reason why you didn't shoot 24p? did you also keep the final out at 30p?looks like its still 30p