Edward Fortyhands – A Night with the Canon 5D Mark II

April 6th, 2009 by Josh Thacker

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Edward Fortyhands – The Official Version from Runner Runner on Vimeo.

Thanks to Becky Olstad I recently got the chance to work with the new Canon 5D Mark II still camera, which also happens to shoot 1080p video!  Instead of just testing out the camera with no concept in mind, we setout to make a short film in one night.  I’m pretty pleased with the results.

I was really impressed with this camera’s performance.  It creates amazing images in low light conditions.  There were, however, two major downsides that I found regarding the camera’s controls.  First, the audio input jack is a mini-plug only.  We ran sound to an HVX200 instead.  The other bummer is that there’s currently no way to manually set your exposure in video mode, which makes for having to “trick” the camera to expose the way you want it to.  If this oversight is fixed in the next version of the camera, then I’m sold.  I’m wondering when Nikon is going to release a comparable camera…

Thanks to all those who worked on this film:

A Runner Runner/Modern Music Production

Cast (In Order of Appearance)
The Victim:  Nels Lennes
The Instigator:  Aaron Richey
The Girl:  Becky Olstad

Written by:
Nels Lennes
Becky Olstad
Aaron Richey
Ryan Taylor
Josh Thacker

Director:  Josh Thacker; Runner Runner
Director of Photography:  Ryan Taylor & Becky Olstad
Gaffer:  Aaron Richey

Editor:  Josh Thacker
Music Performed by:  Josh Thacker
Music Composition:  Josh Thacker & Daron Walker;
Sound Design & Mix:  Bryan Hanna

Flame Artist/Colorist:  Matt Collings