I spotted a cool Behind the Scenes Video on IJustine’s addictive Tasty Blog Snack. It’s made by Photographers and Videomakers The Bui Brothers. The video is BTS at a photoshoot they did with Star Videoblogger Justine Ezarik and there was something about the way it was put together that engaged me within the first 30 seconds.

Quite often videos like these are slung together as montages with hardly any sync at all or any change in pace or tone to break them up. I like the fact that the Producers actually ask some questions and turn it into a reality piece, but it’s the use of the new breed of Digital SLR which captures video that really gives it an extra visual layer.

I asked Lan Bui about the kit they used and he was good enough to ping me back with this:

JTV: What was the Vid shot on?

Lan: The video was mostly shot on the Canon 5D mark II (as well as all of the stills) and some of the ‘dark’ clips were with a Canon HF10. We really like using the Canon 5D mk II because you don’t need any adapters, it just works with any Canon SLR lens. It was edited in iMovie 09.

JTV: It looks like you put a lot of effort into your BTS movies?

Lan: We take our video blogs and BTS videos seriously and want to tell a story with them, the music is a massive part of that. We owe all of the music credit to Paul Dateh of pauldateh.com, he scored it with Ken Belcher to give it the great flow and mood you feel when watching it. Usually BTS videos are short and don’t say much, we believe in giving everyone a good look into our personalities as well as tell the story of what happened to create the images you see.

JTV: Thanks!

Here’s the kit:

The EOS 5D Mark II boasts a new 21MP CMOS sensor, an expanded ISO range of 50-25,600 and a wealth of improvements and new features including full 1080p HD movie recording, live view, 3.0″ 920k dot LCD, DIGIC IV processor, increased battery capacity and sensor dust reduction.

Check out the Canon 5D mark II on Amazon.com

The Canon Vixia HF10 records in the AVCHD format with full 1920 x 1080 output, a new 17 Mbps bitrate, and has 60i/24P/30P frame rates.