#AStepGreener

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For my third “A Step Greener” video I focused in on the Bank I use and what impact that has on the environment, spoiler it is pretty bad. Which is why I decided to change to a building society. For the video itself I used my new Panasonic S5 as my B-Cam. I quite like the image from it and have been curiose about trying a full frame camera for video as I have been working with mostly MFT for the last five years. I really like the options it offers on the wide end of the focal range and having good image stabilisation is great.

I have a couple older canon FD lenses that I have been wanting to try out so I decided to use them for this video. I like the image from them but the 50mm f1.4 does render quite a bit sharper images when put next to the 28mm f2.8. And unfortunately for this set up I ended up putting the 50mm on the S5′s whos sensor oversamples a 6k image down to 4k so you get a very sharp initial image. Then combined that with the faster lenses and there is some clear difference between the two. But it is good to be reminded of these things.

On this video I also used overlays for the first time in this series. With the nature of banks and their investments there wasn’t much opportunity for me to film B-Roll footage myself I thought this was a good alternative and overall I am quite happy with how they turned out.

I do think that my performance could be a bit more energetic and hope to move more behind the camera instead of in front of it for my next project once I’ve completed this series.

Also have to give Natalie a big shoot out for al the help she has given me on this project. Thanks for the help honey.

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I finally managed to get the 2nd video for “A Step Greener” filmed and edited. It has been a busy few months but I am very happy with the progress I have made. This is the first video that I have edited and colour corrected using Davinci Resolve and I don’t think I will be going back to Premier for anything that features raw video or requires much grading. I think the options it offers and the overall quality of the image or quite noticable.

Also for this video Natalie helped out behind the camera, having a 2nd person involved was a real help in terms of focusing and spotting background detail issues that too often I end up not noticing when I am solo shooting.

I am quite happy with how the video has turned out and am excited to see how my next projects turn out with Resolve grading them.

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A Step Greener is a video series in which I plan to chart my journey this year to be more environmentally conscientious. This first video outlines the five areas in which I hope to assess and improve my overall carbon footprint. I am also using this as a way to get me back filming my own stuff after a work/life lull that has seen me not film/finish too many personal projects.

The single largest challenge of this project was our Cat Maisy is was quite insistent to join the video. You can hear her in the background quite a bit, there was also some interference from the road outside. For the next video I’m planning to experiment with some new mic placements to hopefully eliminate or at least greatly reduce this.