Today I’m spending the day with my buddy Sean Haverstock and we’re packing up for the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas this week, January 7-10, where we will be giving a presentation: “Nikon HD-SLR Video: Keeping Your Camera in Motion.”
The ability to make your camera move in an intelligent and graceful fashion is really what separates one motion production from another. Camera movement greatly contributes to the overall production value, and the goal is always to make it move intelligently—that is to say, in a way that adds meaning and purpose. But making those truly impressive sweeping, panning, floating, flying camera movements was formerly only achievable to those with Hollywood-sized budgets. Today, however, thanks to Nikon HD-SLR video enabled cameras, light-weight camera movement devices, and imagination you can create a high-value look in even a small-footprint production.
And that really is the future of motion storytelling.
Over the last year Sean Haverstock has been a key ingredient to the CRP team and the Novus Select team. He has joined us on every large job and helped us move our cameras beautifully and intelligently.
On the Nikon stage at CES, Sean and I will be going over our camera movement kit which includes Manfrotto tripods, Kessler sliders, Litepro Gear and ABC jibs, a Freefly Movi gimbal and a Freefly Cinestar HL RC helicopter. The plan is to use a Paralinx system to send the camera signal from our Nikon D800 and broadcast it on the monitors on the Nikon stage so everyone in the audience can get a feel for what these camera-movement devices really can do. Additionally, I’ll be sharing examples of how we’ve used these camera movement devices and Nikon cameras on productions in the past.
We are presenting twice a day, all four days of the show, on the Nikon stage. Also check out the awesome presentations by my colleagues Dixie Dixon, Alexx Henry, Ami Vitale and Mike Corrado. See full schedule below.
If you’re going to CES, be sure to stop by the Nikon stage and catch our presentation because it’s going to be fun and informative! Looking forward to seeing you in Vegas!
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