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The second video filmed by Guardian photographer Dan Chung entirely on a production Canon EOS5DmkII with adapted Nikon lenses.

It is the story of Wang Chenyang, a student at the Wang Fei Basketball Training Camp at Shi Dai High School, told in his words. Basketball is fast becoming the biggest sport for China's youth - and
teenagers like Wang hope to become its new stars.

This film is not really videojournalism, instead more of a video portrait.

The kit used was as follows:
Nikon 16mm f2.8
Nikon 17-35mm f2.8
Nikon 28mm f1.4
Voigtlander 58mm f1.4
Nikon 85mm f1.4
Nikon 80-200 f2.8
Edirol R-09 field recorder
ManhattanHD LCD monitor
Wallydolly
Miller DS20 tripod
Steadicam Merlin arm and vest

The shoot was far from perfect, shot in only 2 hours and with only one camera battery as spares were unavailable. The whole thing was a rush.

There were problems with the dolly introducing vibrations, due to rushing to set up.

There were problems with the Steadicam not balancing well despite a day spent setting it up earlier in the week.

Worst of all footage was lost when a 8gb card failed on me, mostly Steadicam work.

Despite all this the film was put together.

Deliberately using high shutter speeds to create the ‘Gladiator’ look on the action sequences. A lot of the action was shot handheld or on the Steadicam. The footage shows skew issues but it doesn’t ruin the film in the way it might with other subjects.

All audio apart from the interview voice over is from the camera’s built in mic.

The camera was set to a custom Picture style, many thanks to James Miller dvinfo.net/conf/photo-hd-video-d-slr-others/138697-custom-colour-profile-application-canon-5dmk2.html

Edited overnight in Final Cut Pro, using Apple ProRes 422 using MPEG Streamclip to convert. Basic exposure and adjustments only, no grading.

See guardian.co.uk/profile/danchung for more of Dan Chung's work.

And see guardian.co.uk/world/china for more coverage of China from the Guardian.

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  • Zeeman 3 years ago
    found this on the guardian's website, great work, love the perspectives!
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  • Kevin Lam 3 years ago
    That is impressive. This has been the most dynamic 5D2 video I have seen yet.
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  • Andrew Higgins 3 years ago
    Great film. Really shows the possibilities of using a dSLR for filming, particularly with regard to the range of focal lengths which can be used.
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  • David Duncan 3 years ago
    This could have run as a Nike AD. Great work!
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  • Great stuff! What kind of Nikon mount are you using?
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  • photoman 3 years ago
    hi, man. are you chinese in beijing? i bought a 5d2 last week. i'm in beijing too. which way can i take your contact information to communicate this amazing camera. thank you. my name is luoyuan.
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  • craig 3 years ago
    Well you came long way since your first video with this camera , keep up the good work !
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  • Jamesmallon 3 years ago
    So did you use the edirol and how?
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  • Justin 2 years ago
    Awesome vidportrait. This is so cool, well done.
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  • Steven S. Miric 2 years ago
    I came back to see it again. Great!
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  • CJ Basie 2 years ago
    I see the coding troubles, probably, when close shot the face the hero.... lik hide-n-seek. i gues it's only encoding, the source was good.
    btw, can it possible to plug the the LCD monitor and see the picture in the shooting procces ?
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  • Time Koder 2 years ago
    Awesome video footage, I see some rolling shutter but I'd just have to special fx it away. If ya see the kid again tell him to brush his teeth, hair, write, mouse, etc with his left hand and he'll learn to dribble lefty that much faster. ;-)
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  • Tsering 2 years ago
    pretty much like a nike commercial
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  • Rob MacMullan 2 years ago
    Dan -

    Nice work. How do you like the Manhattan LCD? I'm thinking of buying it over a Marshall or Ikan. Have you had any issues?

    Thanks!
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  • Bold Advertising plus 1 year ago
    Love the shot variation!
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  • Nouman Khan 7 months ago
    Excellent work, very art.
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