Shooting indoor concert

[FOKUSED]

Hello Everyone,

Well after doing a lot of research and reading I am finally a 100b owner

Anyway, I have my first request from my father in law to shoot a little concert he is doing. It is inside a small bar style atmosphere and I was hoping you guys could help the new guy out LOL. What do you think the best settings are going to be. I am guessing the lighting inside is not going to be super good. Probably some flourescents. Can I shoot i 24p or stay at 30 or 60? Any other suggestions with white balance or any help would be awesome.
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[NoNoob]

I shot a gig last night in a small venue, a really hot trio.
There were four PAR 60's lighting the stage, and lots of 24VDC quartz halogen lamps on the ceiling in the building.

When asked if I could do some 'additional' lighting- it was like I kicked their dog or something.
Okay- no problem. I'll run with what I got here.

One camera (the 100B), on a tripod- slightly right of center (beside a post- so I wasn't blocking anyone's view).
I got the sound guy to let me tap into his monitor feed with my wireless- which I ran into Mic Input 1.
I let the second track be 'room' sound coming in through the on board Mic 2.

While the band was getting set I wandered over and took a meter reading of light falling on the face of the main person.
Back at the camera I zoomed in all the way to fill the frame (16:9) with his face.
Adjusted what I could to make that color and light be the best it could- just let the shadows fall where they may.

I have a 'zero' setting on my F1 scene, then have specialized settings on the balance of them.
I don't think any of them are factory settings.

When I'm in my zero F1- I just jump to menu and futz with the basics to get the 'look' I want.
It's all subjective- it's what you're trying to convey in the scene, molding the light as it were.

I steer clear of bumping up gain- it's a LAST RESORT. Don't go there unless you have to.

You'll soon realize it's dark as ****, you'll be worried it'll look awful, and everybody is gonna hate you!
Then- it might just blow their socks off too!!

IF (and it's a big one) you can bring in some extra lighting- that's gonna help a lot.
After all, you're 'making a movie' here, so there has to be lotsa light.
I can tell you four PAR 60's ain't crap- probably 2400 watts total, and gelled.
But my stuff came out great, and I think the foldback from the audio board helped a LOT- it sounded awesome!!

Good luck with it. Hope this helps a little.