Sunday, April 11, 2010

FREE online HDDSLR course with Vincent Laforet












This cool new website CreativeLIVE offers FREE online courses in creative arts & technologies. The courses are unbelievably FREE, but the only catch is, is you need to attend as they are streamed live, if you don't make it you can always purchase what you missed. I've no idea how much the courses are to buy as none of them are available for purchase as of yet, as its early days I guess.

Anyway, following on from my previous blog post about House being shot on HDDSLR, well there is a course coming up by none other than the man who shot the first ever HDDSLR short Reverie, Mr Vincent Laforet.









OK, say what you like about the overly crisp visuals, clichéd plot and awful Mobyesque soundtrack, but lets face it, when this video hit the web before Canon launched the 5D mkII, the world gasped that such a thing was shot on a digital stills camera.  Things have improved a lot since then thankfully, check out this collaboration with the Digital Rebel himself, Stu Maschwitz, and for Canon updating the firmware to shoot 24p.





Pretty good huh? Personally, I think the image is still too clean. I think I'd dirty it up a bit more in post, add more grain perhaps. But still for something that was shot, at night, with just available light, its just wow, there are no words. 


So back to my point, the week after next Laforet will be hosting a weekend of classes introducing HDDSLR filmmaking. No doubt the 5D mkII will be getting a good dissection as will the 7D, my fingers are crossed that the Rebel Ti2 will also be shown some love. Sign up on CreativeLive's website HERE


I've also signed up for Scott Bourne's course on Apple's Aperture. This is a 3 week course & I'm sure of interest to some of my readers.




PS Anyone have any tips for keeping the fonts consistent in Blogger?

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