I’ll admit that a lot of the ‘rock’ music released these days doesn’t do much for me. But there’s something about this group, this song, and especially this video that has me sending links to friends. And it’s not just because they used 8 Canon D7′s to shoot it.
Embedding has been turned off on the video. And I can only find one version playing online at youtube.com – the quality is not as good as the first ones I saw but you still get a good idea.
30 Seconds to Mars-Kings and Queens Music Video
This mini-movie was shot with 8 Canon 7D cameras, a Red One and a Phantom. The Red One was only used for a few special effect shot. The Phantom is an extreme high speed HD camera and there’s one awesome shot of a fire-eater that’s likely the only time it was used on the production.
Besides finding myself still really liking the music and appreciating the production value through the whole piece, I’m linking to it as another reminder that the camera is only one part of the equation.
This production value of this video comes from all the work that went into it, not from the Canon 7D. At the same time, the ability to mount and shoot with 8 cameras at a time changes things considerably for some scenes. And the 7D provides so much quality for the money that it makes a multi-camera production a reality for projects that otherwise wouldn’t consider it.
It’s another way this technology is changing the game for everyone.
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maybe this embeds or not…
shot with 8 canon 7d cams, a red one and a phantom. awesome mini-movie
