filming a rock live performance----> QUESTION

Jay Rodriguez

Jay Rodriguez

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My buddy is performing tomorrow night in Manhattan and I need to get some live footage from the event for a video that I'm doing for him. It's a typical stage setting, low light horror...... I've never attempted to film in that type of setting so how the hell can I achieve some good shots under poor lighting?

Thanks......
 
coffee said:
My buddy is performing tomorrow night in Manhattan and I need to get some live footage from the event for a video that I'm doing for him. It's a typical stage setting, low light horror...... I've never attempted to film in that type of setting so how the hell can I achieve some good shots under poor lighting?

Thanks......
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Bribe the lighting guy/girl to give you twice the normal lighting he would normally use. It's the only way.
 
See if they can turn on the lights ahead of time withsome standing on the stage so you can get an idea for the best angle and how the lighting looks.
Keep camera in manual iris mode so it won't over expose from all the black surround.
Turn on zebras and check in the viewfinder to see how the image is actually looking. You'll have to adjust the iris during the show when they change lighting.
 
Ask very nicely if some gels can be removed and have them use a bit more "white light" than they normally would use....you don't just want colors, it'll look terrible!!

try to watch out for red gels and get more whites pointed at the singer and band members. ...I normally explain to everyone involved that it may look bright onstage but it will look ten times better for the video footage being taken.

AGAIN, just politely ask all involved if they can help you out.....in most cases they will do the best they can and really try to help you get the best images.

also, if smoke machines are involved....don't go sick with the smoke...you can very easily loose all bands members!! ....but it adds some nice depth to moving lights.

I don't have a lot of things posted online to show you what it looks like but here's a "live" video shoot we did for the band Split Shift. It was live footage, then edited to the studio mix of the song. This was a 3 camera shoot....2 hand held DVX's and one on a tripod.

http://www.newyorksoundandmotion.com/demosplitshift.html

Good luck, live shoots are a lot of fun!! ...try to get a mix off the sound board for audio so you can get great footage and not worry about the sound your capturing.
 
And thanks to all of you guys for your input! REALLY! I appreciate your time and will post some of it up really realy soon... :beer:
 
In preset you can select 3200k or 5600k.
If you have very low light maybe your can change shutter speed, if 24P maybe 1/36 or 1/24 can help you (more blur as well)

Ulisses
 
you want 32k.

and this is probably stating the obvious, but... expose for the faces, not the overall scene. the stuff that's not in the lights (most of the wider shots) should be black. you don't want the camera trying to bring the black backgrounds up to 14% gray.
 
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