Zero 7 - Simple Things : Melbourne, Canon 5d Mark II Short Film

Please watch this one in HD!
A fun piece filmed while in melbourne one late friday autumn night.

(The original export of this video at 1080p, does NOT have the jerkiness in it that youtube has done!)

Filmed on a Canon 5D, using a sigma DC 10-20mm F4-5.6 and a canon 50mm f1.8. It's also my first video i've extensively used a tripod! This has allowed me a few opportunities for some fun effects. Filmed on a single 8gb card (with a bunch of non used clips) and on a single standard battery charge, using the camera for over 3 hours. This makes it heaps more practical and with insanely better quality then the hv20 i have.

The sigma lens was 'ok' in lit conditions considering it was zoomed at 16mm, (about f5) but i desperately want a faster wide, as it just doesnt cut it in the conditions i had it in.

My favorite effect is at 49 seconds in, but i keep grinning at the rest of the stretchy and zoom blurry effects and distortions throughout the video.

Most of the colours are straight off the camera, only a few scenes needed tweaking and they were usually the grainy low light scenes taken from the sigma über wide. Optical flow slow mo was used at 0:36, 3:50 and 3:58, and image stabilisation on the handheld scenes and two panning tripod scenes as i hadn't smoothly panned the camera.

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[JulianKooijmans]

quite nice.

did you have any difficulties with rolling shutter and annoying lens flares. How are the lens flares with sun?

[droo3556]

@JulianKooijmans

Lens flare depends on the lenses, and your aperture settting. Primes handle flare better then zooms but by stopping down, you can reduce it (if light is directly in front of the camera) - off camera flare is corrected by hoods.

Rolling shutter is straight forward to correct for in final cut pro with a few distort functions. (check out my other video: "Coming to Terms"

[ANNIESI1]

Great video and effects , what software did you use for the editing?

[droo3556]

@ANNIESI1 thanks heaps! I used finalcut pro for everything apart from the slow mo effects. The slow mo scenes where 'optical flow retimed' with Apple's Motion app.

[DamnDisDude]

sweet! thanks for the video upload! i was wondering how a 10-20 would look like the mkii and it looks great! i think i'm going to buy it, did you have an extension tube? i know the canon one is a EF-s and doesn't work on mkii but i dunno about the sigma version.

[droo3556]

the canon EF-s would be similar to the sigma DG, inc vignetting. if you have one, ensure the aperture is as wide as possible, anything above F4.5 severely reduces the width of the footage.

I had to zoom the sigma into about 13-14mm to minimise left.right edge vignetting, at that zoom amount, the sigma is at F4.5 (not F4.0) and can be 'gotten away with' for night footage. daylight footage has alot of dark edges but can be used to effect if needed. :-)

Also, no extension tube was used.

[iknifestuff]

if 2012 is real this is wut i will be listening 2 before i die :]

[droo3556]

thanks matey : ) and yeah, very picturesque city by night!

[droo3556]

its in the end credits, it's 'Simple things' by Zero 7.

[arthurmalheiros]

Who is the author of the song?