The Lake City Dance (made with the 5D) from Doug Plummer on Vimeo.
Here is what I shot with the 5D at the Lake City Dance the other night, the one where I whined on about the display. These are most of the in focus bits, tossed onto a single track of the musicians. For you contra dancers and callers out there, don't try and figure out what dance it is. I swiped pieces from several.
I have applied no color correction to the footage. This is what it looks like out of the camera.
I think that's a great job--I can't figure out how you can put together these contra dance videos with just one camera. It has the feel of a multi-camera shoot (and I'm just talking about the shots of the musicians, not the dancers).
One question: what did you use to capture the audio? The built-in mic (and, if so, did you use a non-IS lens), or the Sennheiser MKE400 that you mentioned in another post, or did you record the audio on an portable recorder and then merge into the video during editing?
Posted by: Tommy Williams | January 03, 2009 at 01:51 PM
The useful facet of a contra dance is that the same 8 figures repeat a bunch of times. So I can plug in pieces from hither and yon and it appears to have some continuity.
The audio is from the Sennheiser. No tweaking to it. All the audio came from one steady shot of the musicians, which I cut away to several times. The other bits are edited into the video track only. I'm doing all this in Final Cut Pro.
Posted by: Doug Plummer | January 03, 2009 at 02:00 PM