DSLR Workshop 1

For 4 lessons we had Alex Boorman, a professional cameraman, to come in and teach us more about the DSLR camera's. Alex mainly specialises in camera work and editing.

In our first lesson with him he taught us how to do slow motion on the Canon 7D.

I grouped up with Tim, Illy and Sei-Kai, we decided to go outside, where the trees are and take some different shots.

As you can film slow motion on DLSR cameras, however you can change the frames per second so that it is filmed slower than normal.

I.e. a normal frame per second to use is 25 fps and shutter speed to 1/50, to slow it down change to 50 fps and shutter speed to 1/100.

Here's one of the shots we filmed outside, in this clip Illy and Sei-Kai are flickering their hair around.
For this shot we filmed it with 50 fps and shutter speed of 1/100.

We then downloaded the video and put it on 'Final Cut Pro 7', and there's a plug in on there called 'Cinema Tools', which conforms the clips to 25 fps. The video you filmed at 50 fps should now be slow motion.

Here is the finished slow motion video:

It was interesting to learn about slow motion with the DSLR. As I will be using a DSLR camera for my fiction adaptation, I wanted to get some slow motion shots and now I know how to create this.