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Tips on shooting a 5 piece band for a promo
Not really a music video, just samplings of what they play from a live show at a club.
My only experience doing this is at the Art museum, where the band gave me a stereo feed from their mixer and I was able to shoot whatever with my DVX100 and it worked great.
This is a low-budget job, and I just have the DVX 100 and a single gun Sony DV camera, so it’s not like a complicated music video gig.
So, I would be glad to hear some pointers. I have a 500 watt softbox and 3 1000 watt hard lights if that helps. I also have a sennheiseer wireless mike and an azden shotgun, but it seems to me if I can wire into their mixer that would be the best.
The venue is a small-regular sized club. I will have access to power, etc.
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Re-shoot the same “song” several times (say, 3 to 8 times) and cover different angles and players on each take. (This is called shooting “one-camera film-style”.)
Do take the feed from the mixer for audio.
Cut to ONE audio track but match the video from multiple takes to create a “multi-camera” end product.
No need to use the 1-CCD home unit if you cover the takes well with your good camera.
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Thax left out just one little tip – keep the camera running constantly during each repeat performance, even if you make a major camera move. That will make it much easier to sync up your various takes, and will make post much easier and mush quicker.
Good luck,
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I would suggest that you take the mixer feed, but add an ambient room mike on a second channel, not only to pick up the audience, but also to pick up instruments that will not be as pronounced in the mix, since the band will be probably giving you a sound-reinforcement mix, which is mixed for the room, rather than a recording mix. A sound reinforcement mix, for instance, will usually have very little drums, because the drums project into the room well enough on their own without a lot of help from the sound system, so you need a mike near the stage to make up for that.
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Wow, EXCELLENT advice all! Thanks!
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