It's about the look, not the medium of delivery.
You'll not get a very shallow depth of field with an HDV camera nor will you get the slick look of film very easily with an HDV camera. You will with a decent RED shooter and an editor who knows what to do with it. Whether you deliver for the web or a feature film, it's about the look... anything shot with that slick look is going to look higher end.
If the band doesn't care about their image, and want their video to look like a home movie, shoot with HDV: the
consumer format of choice. In fact if you read the Sony press release when they announced the invention of HDV, they pointedly said that it was intended to be an HD format for consumers. Of course Canon creates a higher end 3 chip HDV camera, and we're off to the races with a crappy format chosen by the uneducated "pros" that will pervade until the pro's finally say no.
Sure, it costs more to shoot with a RED camera than an EX series something, but you get what you pay for. If the client's not ready to pay for that look, then it makes no sense to shoot/invest into it.
Jerry
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