Stills and Motion

[D Fuller]

I shoot a lot of commercials for broadcast, and I'm seeing more situations where clients want stills as well as motion out of a shoot. I'm interested to know how people are handling this sort of shoot.

This is not a technical question, but one of production management. Given the different technical requirements for each use (generally higher shutter speeds for stills, etc.) how are you structuring shoots to deliver both still and motion material? In spite of Red One's capability as a still camera, I'm still finding it generally easier to have a Nikon in the set and shoot stills following the motion with that. How are people realizing the possibilities of the DSMC idea in real shoot situations?

[Kim Frank]

Same with me. Mainly I am shooting musicvideos and the labels like to use the same look as the clip for press or artwork. The last one in fact I shot with the 5DII (and it got on MTV) and also took pictures for the album artwork. I just took the time between setup changes or took some before or after a take. When shooting with red one I also like to have a still camera because of its form factor but once I also used 4K Tiffs out of red. I'm normally fine with a shutter speed of 125th for stills, so I don't have to compansate that much and do that by gaining the ISO. It doesnt stress me at all to take stills aswell. With the new DSMC by Red I will do it just like now with 5dII. Just unplug it, take it in my Hand, change shutter and ISO and take some pictures while doing last light or scene changes or inbetween. Looking forward to have one gear that can do both perfectly

[D Fuller]

That pretty well mirrors my experience. In the commercial world, with agency art directors on set, it gets a little fussier maybe, but it seems that there's no real time savings over what we might have done on a film shoot.

[Kim Frank]

I'm also directing and for me its a time saver to really see what I get.
Also I can roll the camera during rehearsals, without being concerned about wasting stock and often thats the shot, and I know it, cause I can really see it.
IMO that saves time and stress.
But other than that another camera is just a different tool to capture a scene and a carefully set up scene (lightning, staging, acting, design, etc.) still needs time.