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digital dv.com • Shoot • Edit • PoSt • StorE • ProducE • diStributE toolS and tEchniquES for thE crEativE PlanEt VIDEOJULY 2012 Live Production for this AmericAn Life Taking The Show inTo TheaTerS worldwide Meet the 2012 Digital Video All Stars 1 DV_07_12_v3.indd 1 6/11/12 8:29 PM DIGITAL VIDEO ALL STARS LOOK 2012 DIGITAL VIDEO ALL STARS e’d like to congratulate the recipi- in their community, which is critical as production get a wider audience or recognition.” ents of the 2012 Digital Video All techniques and technologies are constantly evolving. That said, we’d like to introduce you to this Star Awards. Introduced to recognize The All Stars share their experiences, post reviews year’s All Stars, although you may have already met Wvideo professionals for their passion and creativ- and sample footage, offer advice, speak at events, them, seen their work and learned from them: ity, as well as their ongoing commitment to the and donate their time and talent to worthy causes. Cristina Valdivieso and Jon Connor production community, the Digital Video All Star Each of our All Stars demonstrates a dedication Tom Guilmette Awards are presented yearly to a select group of to his or her community; you can find Tom Lowe Shane Hurlbut, ASC individuals or filmmaking teams. The editors of conducting video tours of his 4K editing setup for Vincent Laforet Digital Video magazine and DV.com agree that the TimeScapes, Tom Guilmette posting the results of Tom Lowe creative efforts of these pros consistently produce various camera tests, Shane Hurlbut tirelessly— Patrick Moreau innovative, uncommon results. and candidly—discussing his use of DSLRs to Kevin Shahinian It’s important to emphasize that these All Stars are shoot Act of Valor, or Patrick Moreau initiating the immensely generous with their knowledge, expertise “Share” video program that donates time and gear Digital Video All Stars profiles written by Jennifer and talent. They’re active and participatory members to, as he says, “tell a story that could use our help to Wolfe DV_07_12_v3.indd 31 6/11/12 8:29 PM CRISTINA VALDIVIESO AND JON CONNOR Jon Connor (left) and Cristina Valdivieso toolkit Canon EOS 5D and 7D Miller DS-20 Lexar Professional FireWire 800 card reader Roland R-44 field recorder RØDE Microphones NTG-3 shot- gun mic Lowel Rifa ARRI three-piece light kit Kessler Crane Pocket Jib Kessler Crane Pocket Dolly Glidecam HD-4000 camera stabilizer Zacuto Z-Finder Singular Software PluralEyes Leatherman multitools Red Giant Magic Bullet Suite Kessler Crane iPhone App hiladelphia-based filmmaking duo roundtable sports show World’s Greatest Ever using how honest you can be,” says Valdivieso. “That’s Cristina Valdivieso and Jon Connor met the Canon EOS 7D camera. Primetime tapped what I love about working with Jon—we can be six years ago, while Valdivieso was study- them again in 2011 to shoot a knockout promo for completely open with each other.” Ping photography and Connor was working in the the highly anticipated boxing match between Amir Connor urges aspiring filmmakers to stay commercial video industry. The couple’s work Khan and Zab Judah. Valdivieso and Connor shot hungry. “You have to constantly put yourself out covers many genres, including documentary, the promo with Canon 7D and Canon EOS 5D Mark there and work really hard,” he says. “Nothing in commercial and event filmmaking, and they’ve II cameras, traveling to Los Angeles to shadow this industry is going to come easy, and if you just worked for high-profile clients including NBC, Khan and his family for four critical training days sit around and wait for an opportunity to present CBS, Showtime and Primetime. In 2011, Valdivieso before the match. itself, it’s never going to happen. Work hard and and Connor were named on Event DV magazine’s Earlier in 2011, Valdivieso and Connor don’t get too discouraged when you fail, because Top 25 list of the hottest and most influential wed- spent a week in Kivalina, Alaska, some 80 miles it will happen, but you have to learn from those ding and event filmmakers. above the Arctic Circle, to document the impact mistakes and keep going.” Together, Valdivieso and Connor run of climate change on the indigenous Alaskans “When people feel like they’ve already learned ShootEditLearn.com, an educational web site faced with moving their entire village to higher everything they need to learn, that’s when they they use to share their knowledge with the ground because of rising sea levels and storm- are at their weakest and that is when they fail,” filmmaking community. The pair also conducts related erosion. Shot with the 7D, the project Valdivieso adds. “Stay humble, and never stop educational tours across the United States with was included in the February debut issue of the learning.” dv corporate partners including Kessler Crane and Episcopal Church’s Wayfarer iPad app, which tells Zacuto; they recently announced a three-day compelling stories through video, photographs intensive workshop in Austin, Texas, in December and words. online with digital cinematographer Philip Bloom, DP According to Valdivieso and Connor, the shooteditlearn.com/blog Alex Buono and Light Iron colorist Ian Vertovec, ongoing success of their filmmaking partnership @shooteditlearn, @jonconnorfilms, among others. is based on their ability to be honest and open @cristinavaldivi In 2009, the duo was hired by British pay-per- with one another. “When you work with someone vimeo.com/canonfilmmakers view channel Primetime to shoot a pilot for the you don’t know very well, you feel limited about 32 dv.com | 07.2012 DV_07_12_v3.indd 32 6/11/12 8:30 PM TOM GUILMETTE toolkit Sony PDW-F800 and PMW-F3 cameras with AJA Ki Pro drive RED ONE Mysterium-X camera with Super lithium ion batteries 16mm to B4 lens adapter GoPro HD HERO2 POV Canon EOS 5D Mark III cameras camera with BeachTek Letus Shane Hurlbut DXA audio adapter Master Cinema Series Kessler Crane Stealth DSLR kits slider, ORACLE motion Fujinon HDTV zoom control system and and Carl Zeiss Compact KC-12 crane Prime CP.2 lenses Sony UWP wireless Vocas MB-325 mat- systems with TRAM tebox with Tiffen and Microphones TR50 mics Schneider filters Vinten Vision, Vision Apple Mac Pro and blue and Vector tripods MacBook Pro with Kino Flo Diva-Lite 400 Adobe CS6 and ARRI 150, 300, 650 G-Technology hard Fresnels drives Anton/Bauer HyTRON Pelican hard cases and Tom Guilmette 140 NiMH and Bebob 190 Petrol bags oston-based director of photography and help me tell a story using shallow depth of field.” capture stunning high-speed footage of wildlife. documentary filmmaker Tom Guilmette Most recently Guilmette teamed up with Guilmette is dedicated to sharing the became a proponent of the DSLR move- National Geographic for its new web series, Beyond results of his experimentation, and his web Bment in 2009, when, inspired by Philip Bloom’s the Puck. The 10-episode series, shot entirely on site, tomguilmette.com, is a rich resource that work with the Letus 35mm still lens adapter, he the 5D Mark II, offers a glimpse into the sustainable offers filmmaking tutorials, webcasts, equipment began to use the Canon EOS 5D Mark II for short lifestyle of eco-warrior and NHL hockey player reviews and ongoing documentation of his work film and music video projects. Andrew Ference. experiences. “It’s important to post your work on Guilmette began his career as a sports Guilmette also recently started experimenting the web—everyone in this business should do television camera operator and has worked in the with high-speed cameras from Vision Research. it—but it’s more than that; it’s about participating professional sports market for more than 10 years, His 2011 video “Locked in a Vegas Hotel Room with in conversations that are online, feeding off covering nearly 1,000 games for the Boston Red Sox a Phantom Flex” went viral when it was posted inspiration, hooking up with companies to and many other sporting events throughout the online, generating more than three million views improve products and contributing to the global United States, including the Olympics, Super Bowl on Guilmette’s Vimeo channel alone. filmmaking community.” and World Series. “I shoot professional sports and follow fast- Guilmette’s best advice: “Stop trying to buy the Attracted by the DSLR camera’s large sensor moving objects, so 30 frames a second is not newest camera—get out there, shoot with what and low-light capabilities, Guilmette quickly enough,” Guilmette says. “I started working with you’ve got and tell the world a story.” dv discovered other advantages to capturing video the Phantom Flex camera shooting at 2,500 fps in with a still camera body. “Most people have no full HD. It’s mind-blowing. You can see the bend of idea I am recording video, which allows me to a hockey stick as it connects with the puck, or bits online shoot in tight or restricted places,” he says. “DSLR of dirt suspended in air as a bike tire rips through www.tomguilmette.com technology has completely changed how I shoot a berm.” @tomguilmette documentaries. These inexpensive cameras are Guilmette plans next on taking his talents vimeo.com/letus more light-sensitive than the human eye and they into nature documentary filmmaking, hoping to dv.com | 07.2012 33 DV_07_12_v3.indd 33 6/11/12 8:30 PM SHANE HURLBUT, ASC toolkit 35mm film ARRI Alexa Canon Cinema EOS-1D C Canon EOS 5D Canon EOS 7D Canon Cinema EOS C300 Letus Shane Hurlbut Master Cinema Series DSLR kits SmallHD DP6 monitor and DP4 EVF Tiffen WW ND filters Panavision Primo lenses Leica R lenses HP DreamColor LP2480zx professional monitor OConnor 1030HDs fluid head and 2610 ball mount Anton/Bauer DIONIC 90 battery BarTech Engineering remote follow focus Duclos Cine-Mod still lenses Zacuto EVF Kino Flo lighting Blackmagic Design DaVinci Resolve Blackmagic Design external recorder Shane Hurlbut GoPro camera or Shane Hurlbut, storytelling always Salvation, so I really didn’t want to do another by the Tiffen Company as an ImageMaker.