Book trailer shot with Panasonic TM700

Well done, Brian. Thank you for sharing this great example of what these cameras are capable of.

Bill
Hybrid Camera Revolution

Great job! I particularly like the scene where you had to carry the camcorder extremely low to capture the girl wearing red, lying down in the forest full of colorful leaves on the ground, while walking toward her.

Did you put a handle to the TM700 or just palming the bottom of the camcorder while looking at the LCD?

Pretty cool trick with the tripod. Was it difficult to flip the video upside-down with Premier? I have Vegas, but I'm not sure if it has this feature.

I haven't flipped any clips in Vegas in a while but when I did super easy. Right click on the clip, click on Pan-crop rotate any angle or in rotation type in 180 and it's flipped.

I was looking for ways to stabilize the camera using a monopod. I bought a 1/4 20 "wing bolt", at Ace Hardware. I think it was labeled "air cleaner bolt" because older cars had air filters held on with a single bolt. With a small ball head and a scrap of aluminium bar, I mounted the camera right side up on an upside down monopod. The result was that I could hold the foot of the monopod and the camera would be below and right side up. The LCD viewfinder can be angled up so you can aim.

My wife has a very fuzzy wire haired dachshund with about 3 inch legs. We were in a campground and, as a lark, I extended the monopod, attached a wide angle lens and joined them for a walk. I tried to keep the dogs head on the extreme left or right of the frame. I kept the camera within a couple inches of the ground, like the dog. The footage was very stable.

It was entertaining. The surprise was the view of walking through grass, not on it, and the sounds down there.

The video looks great!

But the concept of having a trailer for a book is a totally foreign concept to me. The whole idea of reading is making your own visuals in your mind. I don't know how this would work if before reading a book one sees visuals made by someone else.

About two or three posts back I described doing a dog's eye video by making a bracket to hold my camcorder on an upside down monopod. For the fun of it, I pulled some clips together and rendered an upload to YouTube here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oA0QQiOWMh0

I do not mean to distract from the fine video the OP put up! His was serious business, mine is frivolous.

I'm suffering from a crappy internet connection from the motorhome, so the better quality Vimeo upload failed!

YouTube will have to suffice if you want to see what it's like to run around on 3 inch legs.

Thanks for the compliment!

It is hardly a "bracket". It is a scrap of metal and a wing bolt.

It seems to help to have a ball head because the pole won't hang straight with the camera on the "bracket". With the ball adjusted, I can hold the pole gently and a lot of camera motion is reduced. It is not a Steadycam, but some of the steadycam effect is there.

The one fast pan in my video was intended to imitate my wife's tiny dog glancing over his shoulder at the two "huge" dalmatians. And, it was to fast.

So, edit that part out! I want to see the dogs!