The Cinevate Durus Follow Focus is a great follow focus and gives you quite the bang for the buck. With its slick design, large wheel, and smooth mechanics, it’s no wonder Cinevate has grown exponentially in the past few years. Other follow focuses in the same price range and build quality would be the Oconnor Ofocus, the Red Rock Micro Follow Focuz, and the zFocus. Coming in at $1,255, the Durus Follow Focus is fairly economic. One of the things...
Powering your RED Scarlet & RED Epic And with no further adieu, here is our first geek out blog post. A lot of RED newcomers ask about the same things. One of these topics is power solutions. Here is my take! One of the new selling points of the Scarlet is that RED has designed a new battery system using Redvolts, small batteries. These redvolts are small, lightweight, and cheap, so they are ideal for run and gun situations. They...
It has been a long time since we’ve had the time to make an update on here. We have been super busy freelancing the past few months, and right on the heels of a very busy summer was a busy early fall and then Hurricane Sandy! VigilanteHD has been busy bidding on several jobs and doing a ton of Scarlet rentals. There are so many set photos on backlog, I don’t think we will ever be able to catch up...
Shortly after we received our brand new RED Scarlet camera package, we were looking to jump right into a new project and experience how the on set work flow improved. Aside from a couple personal projects, we hadn’t had the chance to use the camera on a real world shoot. Our friend and director of many of our spots, Joe Pickard said he found something that could potentially be a really great project. He told us about shooting a one...
We have always tried to keep an up to date blog with information on our latest projects, but lately we have been so busy the blog fell on the back burner! Crew, production, and rental work have kept us extremely busy this year, and we can’t be anymore thankful! We have been working all over the country with some great companies like Rooster, NYLAHD, The Jacks Firm, BBGun, Variable, Hero Status Films, GhettoNerd, and many more! Our brand new RED...
It’s been a while since we had an update on here! We have been super busy! We are proud to announce the acquisition of one of the first RED SCARLET-X cameras! Right here in NY we have serial #94 of this highly anticipated camera of the future! Capable of full 4k imaging, resolution 4 times the size of conventional HD. This camera has been really great to us, and we have been shooting a ton with it. We have tons...
Working as a freelancer definitely has its perks! Working with some of the best shooters in the biz, we created a video that introduced the Army Vs. Navy Football game last year. It was a great experience getting to go up to West Point and Annapolis. All of the kids were great to work with and very appreciative and understanding of our shoot. And their performances were really fantastic! Shooting on DSLR’s is always a good time. Especially now that...
For Veterans day 2011 VigilanteHD helped out on a shoot with NYLAHD entitled “Why We Serve”. The video was an complimenting a very touching article by Parade Magazine with Retired U.S. Army Gen. Colin L. Powell and six war veterans from six different wars. It was a pleasure to work with such hard working an powerful individuals. Check out the article and video, there are also articles about each of the six veterans. All have pretty amazing stories. http://www.parade.com/news/veterans/articles/colin-powell-why-we-serve.html ...
Happy New Years from everyone at VigilanteHD! 2011 was a fantastic year and we are looking forward to an explosive new year in 2012! There are a lot of projects in the works for 2012 and we can’t wait to get started! A few months ago we worked again with our good friends over at The Jacks Firm on a project promoting the Chase Freedom card. It was a relatively simple shoot with some high tech specifications due to how...
In the fall we shot a commercial with Hero Status films for a Chevrolet contest through MSN. The shoot was super fun and all of our actors and crew were fantastic! With any luck our spot will be shown during the Super Bowl! Exciting stuff! It’s great to be working with Hero Status films as they are one of New York’s most ingenuitive and creative video production companies. I’m always impressed with how enthusiastic they are! Check out the spot here, and...
