DV Info Net https://www.dvinfo.net/forum/ This is an online discussion at DV Info Net -- The Digital Video Information Network. en Sat, 20 Jun 2026 22:17:51 GMT vBulletin 60 https://dvinfo.net/forum/images/misc/rss.jpg DV Info Net https://www.dvinfo.net/forum/ National TV Spot Constructive Criticism https://www.dvinfo.net/forum/show-your-work/539753-national-tv-spot-constructive-criticism.html Wed, 10 Jun 2026 16:47:00 GMT I am currently working on a national TV spot for my university to be played during our athletic games this upcoming school year. They will likely also use this when they need a quick commercial to be used on pages on the website or any digital marketing that they plan to use.

While it's not finished (I still need to fix sound effects, add in the final voice over artist and license the music), the commercial has been completely shot and wrapped filming. I could go back in and shoot more scenes if it feels necessary.

Knowing all of that, I would love some feedback on what you think about it.

- What works?
- What doesn't work?
- Does the story of this video make sense?

Anything you can provide would be helpful! I don't make these types of videos often and it's the first proper TV commercial that I have ever made that I actually went out and shot every single frame for the intent of it being a TV spot.

Thanks for any feedback you are willing to provide.

]]> Show Your Work Brock Burwell https://www.dvinfo.net/forum/show-your-work/539753-national-tv-spot-constructive-criticism.html Recital - Solo dancer froze on stage https://www.dvinfo.net/forum/wedding-event-videography-techniques/539752-recital-solo-dancer-froze-stage.html Wed, 10 Jun 2026 15:05:43 GMT Editing now - A dancer froze on stage for a good 16 seconds as she forgot her choreography. I shoot with 2 cameras, so I have both a wide shot and a close-up. I am considering two different edits: #1 - Cut to the wide shot during the freeze. This acknowledges the incident. #2 - Keep tight shot... Editing now - A dancer froze on stage for a good 16 seconds as she forgot her choreography. I shoot with 2 cameras, so I have both a wide shot and a close-up. I am considering two different edits:
#1 - Cut to the wide shot during the freeze. This acknowledges the incident.
#2 - Keep tight shot throughout, but totally remove the footage of the frozen dancer, and cross-dissolve as best as possible. It will lack some continuity, but removes the odd freezing. ]]> Wedding / Event Videography Techniques Vince Pachiano https://www.dvinfo.net/forum/wedding-event-videography-techniques/539752-recital-solo-dancer-froze-stage.html Hallerbos bluebells https://www.dvinfo.net/forum/show-your-work/539751-hallerbos-bluebells.html Sat, 06 Jun 2026 20:31:32 GMT We Visited Hallerbos Too Early... and Found Something Amazing - YouTube
]]> Show Your Work Rudy Wilms https://www.dvinfo.net/forum/show-your-work/539751-hallerbos-bluebells.html Vale Gordon Goodwin. https://www.dvinfo.net/forum/totem-poll-totally-off-topic-everything-media/539750-vale-gordon-goodwin.html Sat, 06 Jun 2026 17:56:41 GMT In 1989 my wife and I took our 2 young daughters to Disneyland where I soon noticed a street band of 4 players, walking around and stopping every now and then to play a few Disney numbers for the crowd. And the trumpet, tenor sax, trombone and baritone sax musical arrangements were very good,... In 1989 my wife and I took our 2 young daughters to Disneyland where I soon noticed a street band of 4 players, walking around and stopping every now and then to play a few Disney numbers for the crowd.

And the trumpet, tenor sax, trombone and baritone sax musical arrangements were very good, so good in fact, I arranged to meet my family later and a couple of fans and I followed them around for 1/2 an hour just listening to them at each stop. That was Gordon Goodwins first job and I think he wrote those arrangements and played the tenor sax there. I should have asked him.

He subsequently went on to form his Big Phat Band, they released 11 Cds and won three Daytime Emmy Awards, four Grammy Awards, and 25 Grammy nominations for his compositions and arrangements.

He became a favourite bandleader of mine and many other fans worldwide. He led his Big Phat Band for many years, and started writing for Warner Bros cartoons regularly in 1969, He probably was in the same Warners studio I was in in 1996.

In May 2014 Gordon and his Big Phat Band flew L.A. to Brisbane Australia, then to Adelaide then took a coach to Mt. Gambier to play in the Generations in Jazz festival on the weekend organised by Australian multi instrumentalist James Morrison. I’ve worked with James, he’s just the persuasive man to pull a thing like that off. It was a great success.

But on the way they first came to Sydney and played concerts in the Chatswood Concourse theatre, about 30 minutes from where I live. I didn’t know that and I m-i-s-s-e-d them.

However tragically, 8th December 2025, Gordon Goodwin died from prostrate cancer. Musicians and fans around the world were shocked and are still devastated. Individually here’s some of the world’s best instrumentalists …
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]]> The TOTEM Poll: Totally Off Topic, Everything Media Allan Black https://www.dvinfo.net/forum/totem-poll-totally-off-topic-everything-media/539750-vale-gordon-goodwin.html Footage shot with FX6 and new Sony 400-800mm lens https://www.dvinfo.net/forum/sony-digital-cinema-camera-systems/539749-footage-shot-fx6-new-sony-400-800mm-lens.html Sat, 23 May 2026 13:17:34 GMT I finally had time to post some footage from the new lens I got after NAB. Three Hour Video Challenge with Sony FX6 and 400-800mm lens - YouTube I finally had time to post some footage from the new lens I got after NAB.

]]> Sony Digital Cinema Camera Systems Doug Jensen https://www.dvinfo.net/forum/sony-digital-cinema-camera-systems/539749-footage-shot-fx6-new-sony-400-800mm-lens.html Analogue days, before the arrival of industrial video screens https://www.dvinfo.net/forum/totem-poll-totally-off-topic-everything-media/539748-analogue-days-before-arrival-industrial-video-screens.html Sat, 23 May 2026 03:46:47 GMT Boyd said: Back in the mid 1980's, we had a slide projector with a built-in cassette deck. The audio was recorded on one track and the other track had some kind of clicks or tones that automatically changed the slides. So, you could create presentations where the slides changed on musical cues. Actually, I think it was something that was originally from the 1970's which we picked up at state surplus. :-)’

Hi Boyd, about 1975 the U.K. Electrosonic company improved on your cassette deck and came out with their first ES2001 controller. It could sync 2 Kodak 35mm slide projectors together with a pulse code from a track on an audio tape that also had the soundtrack. The ES2001 provided 3 methods to change slides - instant, fast dissolve and slow dissolve, and on this controller you could adjust the fast and slow dissolve times.

I learned how to run the ES2001, if the dissolve time was too slow from A to B projector, you couldn’t use the projector A again until it had changed to the next slide, 2.8 secs.

And depending on the clients budget, he could have any number of screens in an audio visual show of any length. 5 screens with quad sound for 30 minutes was the biggest show I ever did, for Sydney’s TCN channel 9.

And sound effects made it. I had the use of 9s helicopter and we flew to an airfield where I recorded it flying low over me on the field, while I recorded the sound of it. This sound passing over the audience in quad from the back to the front speakers, made the a/v a great success. And I played it very loud, in rehearsal I could rattle the cutlery on the audience tables.

John Crane a director at Natec Sound Studios where I worked, was a visionary and he was first, selling Ford Australia with the idea of presenting Fords next year new model car to Ford dealers around the country, and over 4 years we did. We made 3 screen a/v shows and flew next years model Ford and our a/v gear around Australia in a Bristol Freighter, (below.) We landed at country airports that had never seen a Bristol before and when the front ramp was lowered we would watch for the surprised look on the ground crews faces as the new car was driven out.

At the annual dealer show, John’s idea was to have next years model Ford car on stage completely covered with a number of thick coloured parachutes so you couldn’t see the new cars shape. Spaced out during the 30 minute show when a spotlight came on, very slowly one parachute after the other was slowly raised off the car, till the last one, with the sound effect of a trumpet fanfare, next years new shape Ford was finally revealed to the Ford dealer audience. I attended a big show in Sydney and the 1500 dealers who’d flown in from around the country went nuts cheering and stamping. Ford loved it and based on previous experience had a doctor standing by in case of heart attacks.

When many professional 35mm still photographers saw our a/v shows with 35mm slides ‘moving’ in a multi-screen presentation - they really took notice. This was their entry into the world of moving pictures, but they needed good soundtracks and based on our Ford shows, some came to Natec. I had to get Natec directors permission to accept outside a/v work while I was still working on Ford. And because there was a lot of it, as long as I hid all Fords work at the time, I could. Crazy days.

Then the big industrial digital video screens arrived and basically killed the multiscreen A/Vs overnight. But here’s Electrosonics single screen ES3601. Over 40 years they sold many of these and because buyers could make their own presentation with their own 35mm slides and their own narration sound track, some are still in use today …
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]]> The TOTEM Poll: Totally Off Topic, Everything Media Allan Black https://www.dvinfo.net/forum/totem-poll-totally-off-topic-everything-media/539748-analogue-days-before-arrival-industrial-video-screens.html