I recently used a canon eos 500d camera to make my last film "Trace". The camera records a pretty decent HD quality video at 30 frame per second for 720p and 20fps for full HD (1080p - The processor is not strong enough to handle a faster frame rate for full HD unlike Canon 5D Mark II).   There's a very limited control over the video settings, however, there are ways to overcome some of them. Auto Exposure and white balance  can be locked so the image won't suffer from the sudden changes. When zooming in/out the brightness of the image may change sometimes which make the zooming function unreliable. As for the sound quality it's usable to get the background sound but when you focus, the microphone picks up the sound coming from the lens. Overall, the video quality is acceptable coming from a still camera and with a possible firmware update from canon more video control should be available soon.  To get a better idea of the video quality recorded with EOS 500d, watch the below video including some sample shots in different locations.

_You can also download four raw video files to see how a video file straight from the memory card looks like.
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Sample 1 720p@30fps 18-55mm Lens(+0.45xWide converter)
Sample 2 720p@30fps 18-55mm Lens(+0.45xWide converter)
Sample 3 720p@30fps 18-55mm Lens
Sample 4 1080p@20fps 18-55mm Lens

"The Broken" was chosen as the second popular student work by the audience of our course degree show. I was a bit surprised since if I had to pick myself I would have chosen "The Fall" amongst my other works to be the better one in terms of the storyline. I'm not so sure how close The Broken's audience understanding was to my idea behind the shots.

Love at first sight? not even close!; There's no definitive feeling in The Broken, it's just confusion and trying to understand these confusing feelings. The first time when Danny and Mia look at each other it's not love; it's one of those feelings that you don't understand at the time and makes you wonder;"what was it?". Sometimes you try to understand it and if you are lucky you get a chance but usually it's a lost moment and something that will remain in your mind for a very long time if not forever.

The consequence of a never made decision; Just because you choose not do something,  or just imagine it, it doesn't mean you won't suffer the emotional consequences. Sometimes living through the pain can be less painful than just imagining it !

A Surreal world; The story is not happening in a real world and everything is the product of Danny's imagination. Mia may not even exist in Danny's life and she's a just representing Danny's lost connection to the real world, a connection that he chooses to keep broken at the end.