Live in Canada, but wicked video as always! Agreed though it’s better to rent gear if you can! I say owning a decent camera and renting lenses for it and lighting will work out for shorts. sound, I find you hire someone that is passionate about sound and has invested time and money towards that and you can get a dope short for a decent price!!
Kent- your personal story would make a great documentary. Thank you for your priceless information, tips, tricks and just GBA. “General Bad-assery!” Just made that up but it’s true. I can only imagine the number of film makers you have inspired. Hundreds. Including myself.
So happy to find your channel. Such great advice for filmmakers. Also I love that you use LUMIX cameras. Not a brand that talked about compared to other mirrorless cameras
I really recommend buying, not borrowing. You can’t put a price on being able to experiment and practice with your gear any time you want with no limit.
If you’re a cinematographer (or not even) I absolutely think it’s best to find whatever camera you can afford and learn it well. Switching cameras or only having a small window of time to learn a daunting camera system seems like a waste of money to me. This is assuming you’re all about operating camera yourself on your shorts. When you’re new, you feel totally blind to new camera systems and don’t keep switching. Stick to something. I was using a fs7 when I started and it was rented from my film school. It was the worst experience ever because I was too new then (2017). Find a simplistic system with decent specs and stay there. Learn it’s quirks and play to its strengths. And care more about lighting and lenses. Good vintage lenses can be way cheaper than new shitty kit lenses. Research the hell out of this stuff.
Came here from watching the Flash Drive thriller. Massively inspired by literally ever shot, dialogue, lighting, acting and sound design. Brilliantly executed. I’m thinking of getting into content creation/interviews/short films/cinematography. Unfortunately rentals in my area don’t have the same setups in your description as micro four thirds aren’t used much in my region. Saw in the description that you used a lumix zoom lens. The full frame equivalent of 24-70 2.8. As a Sony shooter I’d like to purchase a 28 -75 Tamron 2.8 for photo/video as well as film/content. Do you think 28mm on the wide end would cause any issues or restrictions? Could I get shots like you with a this lens? I would prefer not to go for the 24-70 2.8 due to size issues.
I hear Sachtler tripods are the go-to for a lot of TV news camera people as well as filmmakers and corporate video makers. However, the one time I tried a particular Sachtler tripod, I was turned off by its head (and it's a head a lot of people use and like, too - the FSB 8T). Every time I use the pan bar to tilt up or down, the "teeth" are so fine, they slip easily, no matter how tight you tighten it! Am I doing something wrong, or do other people experience this? Also, the FSB 8T has an illuminated bubble level, but Sachtler couldn't just put a simple button on the head to turn it on - no no - you have to tap it...HARD...to get the light to turn on. I've had many a painful fingertip thanks to Sachtler!
If you have an account and it's your first order it should work, but lmk if it's still giving you trouble. You can add anything you want to the kit just by adding it to your order. If you want to subtract anything you'd have to not use the kit and add the items you want individually.
I want to off by doing short interview video on those fighting trafficking in the Bay Area. At this point the dime is on me. I really do not want to sync sound to the video. What camera, lense and sound can I affordably use? I have been involved in video production in another life. Thanks. Anyone can comment.
BorrowLenses screwed me and a bunch of customers over back in May. Cancelled our orders for no reason and didn't give us an explanation. They cancelled my order day before the shoot and I was left hanging. Lost out on a job because of them
$300 ... yeah, right. The Rode Go 2 mic system will cost that much alone in Australia. Try $3k, and even then you'll probably be short. Oh wait, those are rental costs? Sure, as long as you're only ever going to make one movie and you happen to live in a major city and they rent low-end trinkets to amateurs (most don't). The rest of the world scours ebay, Craigslist, FB marketplace and Gumtree for bargains and delays their projects until all the components have been repaired, assembled, prepped and tested. And without the benefit of being able to familiarize oneself with this gear in film school, the amateur you're addressing needs to own this stuff to figure out how to use it anyhow.
Love your vids man! Always straight to the point with the perfect amount of comedy mixed in to make things interesting yet not distracting. Amount the top film tutorials on RU-vid in my opinion! ❤
thank you! the only thing stopping me from renting is not knowing how to send everything back... is there a certain way we should send the equipment back??
Alrighty senior. I just rented your kit suggestion for my son's short film project this weekend. I hope we have learned enough from you. I have 19 11-year-olds coming to a birthday party this weekend and we're trying to do another film-tackular-bday experience. He's filming the follow-up to his first one done with they were all 8.
Great video. I would like to see standards to meet to get your film/ short film into a festival. I believe that should be what we all should be working towards.
This is AWESOME Kent! Thank you for taking the time to put this together. I was totally unaware of borrowlenses! I actually wanted to make some comparison videos for RU-vid and was going to ask friends to use their cameras. This is much easier...good tip!
Subscribed. I wish there was a reduced kit. I have an A7III, 24-70 and 70-210mm lenses, a Benro fluid head tripod. I do not have a gimbal yet (but I will have it in March 2024) and no mics/sound recording equipment and no lights/diffusers. Also, no monitor.
