New camera test 29/5/23
My latest experiment with the cameras has led me to trying a lens that was deeper in the hopes of providing my shot at Camperdown with more depth for the 3D Camera Tracker to work off of. I was doing this shot whilst they were setting up gates for the BBC Radio 1 Big Weekend, which was a big draw for the local area but meant that I had to work with lorries and tractors bringing in equipment for the event. I tried shooting the scene of the trees at multiple angles using the Canon 1100D with a 300mm lens, but this had several caveats. Namely the recording quality would only go up to 720p which meant that the picture quality would be far inferior to the Panasonic DVX-200 and that the field of view was actually much tighter than the Panasonic camcorder, not to mention the fact the camera had no onboard mic to record sound. I also now know that the camera moves that the tutor is looking for to make the shot the needed quality really need a tripod in order to be smooth and fluent. The handheld camera moves that I did try for the first shot were far too shaky to look professional and focused, and when I tried the warp stabilizer on the shot, it resulted in weird, wobbling effects on the picture that did not look good. It was also harder to adjust the ISO and shutter speed on this camera, and I could not get the 3D camera tracker to work on the shot at all, so for the next and hopefully last round of shots for this scenario, I will just use the DVX-200 and the tripod that comes with it in order to make the shot work.
I have laid out some shooting plans for how I intend to film the final attempt at the Camperdown sequence. The first attempt will be a relatively simple, slow panning manoeuvre where all the trees around the path are in shot and the 3D motion tracker will find some to attach the animation to. The other idea I had is one that would utilize the DJI Osmo pocket and produce a smooth forward translation shot where it would like the protagonist is moving forward through the trees and the deer animation is attached to the trees. I would keep using the masks to ensure that the animation is contained.
Figure 3: Canon 1100D shooting attempts
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