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I think I've finally found the correct thread to ask the people in the know. I work as an AV nerd in a university so I know a little about everything which is pretty dangerous. My team is taking on a videographer at some undetermined time in the near future and I've been tasked with pre-purchasing them some equipment and my knowledge here is limited to DSLRs from a decade or more ago. We do have some camera equipment already, some weirdo Fuji DSLR that nobody knows how to use, a Panasonic GH4 and a GH5 along with the hotshoe attachment for feeding in the lovely Sony UWP-D21 mic setup (purchased because I used an earlier RF version of this years ago, nice kit) via XLR. But now we have an actual genuine position coming up and it's coming to the end of the financial year I've been tasked with getting rid of some excess cash. I used to do the odd media training session with one of two Sony HXR-NX5R cameras we had but are these big burly cameras still the thing or are people now producing more and more via DSLRs and funky lenses? I'd imagine these larger pro grade ones would make sense for recording lengthy videos sessions (do DSLRs still stop recording after 30 minutes or so?) but I think we'd probably be doing shorter pieces for marketing etc. Does anyone want to play wishlist with what they'd like to see first day in a newly created position so you could hit the ground running? The lovely lady we have doing far too many creative things for us has pointed out the Blackmagic Cinema Camera as a wishlist item, we have a couple of other Blackmagic bits but are these in use by many? Olympic Mathlete fucked around with this message at 16:10 on Apr 25, 2024 |
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powderific posted:What kind of budget are we talking here? What will the video person's main duties be / what are they gonna be filming? Budget is an unknown, I've been told to spend some money otherwise lose it, it's the same dumb poo poo that happens every year but say a solid £30k (I'm in the UK). I know our HR team are crazy slow so the job will go out after the deadline I need to have spent and have the kit here, so I'm attempting to put something together that isn't going to suck despite people obviously having kit preferences (like myself, a Canon guy). As far as content goes the things we've done before and will be getting more of will be stuff like interviews with researchers, footage of various manufacturing processes and machinery we have, some occasional green screen stuff. I imagine most will be indoors, we have a small studio space but we'll be getting a lot more footage out 'in the field' in labs/research areas for digital signage content, YouTube and our own website. We produce a reasonable amount of extra teaching content and this is the stuff done in the studio which is another thing I'd like to improve by acquiring a larger space for it. But that's another argument/project. I apologise if that's fairly vague but I appreciate the help so far and the various comments. It gives me a starting point to go do some reading. *edit number 8 or something: Having a chat with the boss I'm going to try put together a few quotes, one base level but which would be an improvement over what we have, one 'would be nice to have these' and a stupid shoot for the moon one.  Olympic Mathlete fucked around with this message at 09:53 on Apr 26, 2024 |
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powderific posted:Yeah I think for that budget/use case something in the realm of a C70 or a C300 MkIII would be a safe bet. Whatever you do, you may want to work through someone like CVP who will have sales people who can help build out the quotes and make sure you aren't missing anything. You can run it by us here if you're worried about being oversold or whatever but even as someone who knows what they're doing I've found having sales people at Abelcine etc. helpful. That's actually a great point, I'll fire off an email on Monday, see what they can put together for me. Thanks again.
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