Tennis Essence: Power Serve 2012

Third place winner for Tennis Australia's Changing Ends 2012 competition:
http://www.changingends.com.au/

Stu makes the best of a broken racquet by inviting a mate around to play a 'game' of tennis.

Cast/crew:
Stuart Attenborrow
Sam Waterhouse
Humphrey Murray
Stu Grant

Music:
Mantrain by Freddie Wong (used in the video Guitar Army)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vQf4IybnSZA

Category:

Entertainment

Tags:

• Tennis (video Game)
• Tennis
• game
• changing ends
• australian open
• 2012
• tennis essence
• power serve
• short film
• camera crane
• after effects
• visual effects
• special effects
• post production
• camera dolly
• camera truck
• wide angle
• matrix
• trevallyn
• launceston
• tasmania
• Canon

[Bladerunner55217]

Nice, Hey what camera did you use and did it have an attached wide angle lens? I am asking because I have made tennis video's of our group with my nikon l100 but I have to put the camera on the right end corner of the court to get everyone in the screen. Can you recommend a 200.00 to 300.00 dollar camera that will give me the same width view that you have done on this video... Thanks for your time..

Tony

[bigstu80]

@Bladerunner55217 The camera was a Canon HV20 with wide angle adapter. The field of view is around 60-70 degrees which created barrel distortion on the video (where all the lines on the tennis court bend). I added an optics compensation in After Effects to remove this distortion and make all the lines straight (at the cost of blurry edges).

I can't suggest any particular camera - you'd just have to ensure the field of view is 70+ degrees on the cameras you are looking at.

[Bladerunner55217]

your camera looks really high up. The fence must be ridiculously high ??

[bigstu80]

@Bladerunner55217 The fence is quite high but I built a 16ft crane to get the camera over the top of it :)

[Bladerunner55217]

@bigstu80 thanks for your time and info..