Bumblebeez '81 in 24p

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Bumblebeez '81 producer, beat maker and rapper Chris Colonna visited our studio, last week. He talked about his production proccess, college/internship experiences and his new music video. The package is introduced by AV Squad host, Kristen Caldwell.

Both the host read and interview were filmed with the Panasonic DVX100 set to 24p Normal (F5). The background was lit with 1-ARRI 1000 fresnel. On-camera talent was lit with 2-ARRI 650 and 3-ARRI 300+ fresnels. Audio was gather with 1-Senheisser me66/k6 shotgun mic and 1-Azden WLX-Pro wireless lavaliere.

http://www.aviewofyou.tv/dvx100/bumblebeez81.html
 
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Ditto on the other take. Damn that looks good. Really shows what Professional sound and Mic can do compliment someone who knows what the **** their doing.

Brunettes are cool.
 
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Thanks again. I forgot to mention that I've started using the SoundSoap Peak plug-in to remove background noise like air conditioning, ice machines, people, you name it. The Senheisser me66/k6 is normally what picks those sort of noises up. For instance, the studio has an AC vent that blows right above the AV Squad logo. For some reason, we can't seem to find it's controls (to turn it off), but SoundSoap saves us. The Azden WLX-Pro lav is OK. It's the third cheapest lav one can buy at B&H ($150), but it seems to be doing the job for now.
 
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pretty good technique... but who are these musicians!? they talk soooo much, maybe I'm out of this loop but 10sec of them talking about their life history was enough for me. Who is the target audience for these episodes?
 
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AV Squad is pipelined directly into college dormitories as well leased cable carriage. We target the 18-24 set with music and musicians you're not going to see on MTV (but maybe on MTV2, or MTVU).

Chris' life story is facinating to a confused college student who's unsure of him/herself. In fact, if you watch the entire thing you'll realize it's quite inspirational. Also, these 3-5 minute interviews break-up the music videos, so we let them speak quite a bit.

As far as the flashes go... It's Effect Essentials AE/FCP Camera Flash plugin.
 
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There were some strange image shaking sideways. I don't know whether that was intentional or just the 24p web issue (?), the graphics were good.
The interview was a bit long for my attention span as well. I couldn't really understand what he was saying, it maybe the accent made it difficult. The tagline flashed a bit too often, you only need to show it occasionally. I liked the flashes. The camerawork is good, though I probably wouldn't put him off so much to the side unless you're switching to the interviewer.
 
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I thought it was all excellent except for the damn little jitter as he was talking. I guess it was some kinda 'film effect' plugin trying to simulate gave-weave (or whatever it's called)? In any case it was frustrating. All the other flashy cuts and stuff were fine, they broke up the monotony (of what was essentially just staring at a dude talking for a much longer than that demographic has ever paid attention to anything) quite well.

Good lighting, good editing effects, good sound. Just that little jitter was killin' me.
 
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[quote author=hemophilia link=board=Clips;num=1081054890;start=0#7 date=04/09/04 at 17:55:04]Good lighting, good editing effects, good sound.  Just that little jitter was killin' me.[/quote]

That "jitter," do you mean when the profantiy was blipped out using a ssh sound and the little x over the lips?
 
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[quote author=magicdavek link=board=Clips;num=1081054890;start=0#8 date=04/09/04 at 20:08:37]

That "jitter," do you mean when the profantiy was blipped out using a ssh sound and the little x over the lips?[/quote]

I'm not sure if that's what he meant, but if it is... Yes, they're profanity ommisions. I have no choice, but to remove curse words for broadcast.
 
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how do you create the glow transitions
 
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No I wasn't talking about the profanity omissions. Maybe it's just a playback issue or something? My computer not liking the compression? But throught the whole thing... every second or two... it looks like the image shifts a bit just for like one frame. I'd be happy to know it was just a playback issue, cause I didn't much like it. :)

That glow effect he uses for the cuts (Effect Essentials AE/FCP Camera Flash plugin) is free. If you DL the demo of the effects package, that one is free/fully-functional.

http://www.buena.com/ee/cameraflash.html
 
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Hmm... Wish I could I tell you what it was, but I don't see it. Perhaps, you're right when you say it's a compression compatability issue, but I'm just not sure. Playbackhere is A-OK.
 
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I'll agree on both points made so far: the production values are good, but the interview itself is somewhat difficult to watch.

One thing I noticed is that some of the cuts of the guest are very, very long ... especially when you consider that he is both difficult to understand [to an American audience], and not an engaging speaker in any way. After a while, it's a little to easy to just kind of tune out of the interview because of the monotony and heavy accent of his speech.

These are aspects you obviously can't control, but perhaps you could cut a bit of the fat and give us the interview content in shorter pieces cut together with something else. Clip after clip of an unknown man speaking to an off-camera interviewer won't hold an MTV-fed kid's attention for long. (This is from a member of your target demographic.)

Since most of your target audience is probably unfamiliar with his work, as well, perhaps you could include some of his music videos, or clips of his songs. I, for one, have no idea why this guy is worthy of an interview. Show me! :) This may be infeasible (licensing?), but a little variety could help attract and retain the audience's attention.

That said, I didn't see any strange video jitter here, and Sound Soap seemed to do a pretty good job getting rid of any background noise (which lends even more credibility to your production values). Hope to see more in the future.
 
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