Music is everything - Well, a lot.

We have discussed how important music is in a video.

I was putting together this short demo piece and I love the way the music works and the feel it gives to the clips.

Half Track Demo

A nice piece of music John. Well done. You're right, it fits perfectly!

That looks like a very fun shoot! Was that WWII reenactment?

Very "Saving Private Ryan" nice job

artyman wrote in post #13663086
Very "Saving Private Ryan" nice job

LOL, that has pretty much become the WWII film standard point of reference. I even have to back off the saturation as conventional colour looks completely wrong.

It was filmed at the 2011 Victory Show in Leicestershire. A superb couple of days filming and a great bunch of guys. My colleague and I are are hoping to do some more reenactment events this year. We have a great relationship with the pyro guy so that helps a lot.

This week I have been recreating the ident for the German Weekly News ready for a promotional film for one of the German reenactment societies. I was thrilled when I tracked down a copy of the original photo used for the Eagle ......but then I do get excited over such details.

music IS everything

well done, though to me that track sounds like it would lend well to some slow motion, muted color tones shots.

Should have plenty more to follow as we have been awarded the contract to film The War & Peace Show Europes largest military vehicle spectacular.

I am also roughing it next weekend camping with a bunch of German WWII re-enactors. We intend to do three films over the weekend:-

A pro mo video for the group
A recreation of a WWII German weekly news bulletin
A "making of" documentary of the weekend.

Sould be great fun ...... If it doesn't rain.

Congrats John!!! I can't wait to see what you guys come up with.

How many people do you have shooting with you on this? And on what cameras? I assume you'll have your 60D, but what do the other folks have (that is if you have other shooters)?

Rain? It rains in England? Really? Shut the Front Door, no it doesn't!

That's why you should have gotten the 7D with it's weather sealing. That and some weather sealed L lenses and you'd be fine!

Do you like how I just spent your entire budget there?

Again, congratulations and have some fun with this. It should be a visual feast and I bet you'll love every second of it, rain or no rain.

Cheers mate. I'm covered on the glass happily (24-70 f2.8L would be nice though) but do have a hankering for a 5D MkII (or is it Mk III now ) . I Certainly wouldn't want to be without the functionality of Magic Lantern. I do have rain covers though as, when it rains here, anything short of a full underwater housing isn't otherwise going to be enough.

It's myself and David Sinclair of SinVision www.sinvision.co.uk filming. His gear list is on his site IIRC. We are getting a couple of GoPro HD Hero 2's to throw into the mix as well.

It will only be the two of us as we found from The Victory Show, where we had 8 cameras over 2 days, there was just too much footage to edit. In the end he used predominately his and mine. I think partially because of the quality of the footage from the 60D, and also, because we were mostly working side by side he knew what I had. We did all the interviews together and a lot of the set pieces.

As you have to go with the flow at these events to some extent you can't really plan every shot or have time to brief every camera man as to what you want from them specifically particularly if also filming yourself. The War and Peace Show is being filmed over a week so we should have a chance to revisit any bits we need after viewing what we have each evening.

Coming back to the original thread we have had the offer of bespoke music for the production - a one off score - so that should be interesting. Fortunately, as I'm tied up doing the animation and idents I don't have to worry too much about the editing.