Shooting A Low Light Event, Help Me PLEASE!!

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ANGENOUX

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Hi All,

So I am shooting an event tonight for a good friend of mines and it's a low light setting. I'm not able to add any additional lights because they don't want to mess up their ambiance. It's a book passage/poetry reading/local singer/instrument player thing. I'm wondering what settings I can use on my DVX to get the best picture? This is my first time shooting in a situation where there wasn't adequate lighting, so I'm wondering if anyone here can give me any tips or advice. I'll be shooting with my DVX100b and just recording the audio through the camera with a NTG3.

Here's a clip they have on youtube (not shot by me) but maybe it will help give an idea of what the venue and lighting during the show will look like: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rbnPOC3lBlA (the actual show starts at 2:30).

Any and all tips/advice would be MOST appreciated because I NEED my video to come out better than the clip but I'm a bit nervous, due to the lighting.

Thanks!
 
If they are using a spotlight as in the clip, then you should be okay. Get there early and experiment with your gain settings. I wouldn't go above 6db, but if there is a spotlight you might not need it. I think you think that clip looks bad because of all of the youtube compression that you see. Your camera footage should look better than that.
 
digitalgecko said:
If they are using a spotlight as in the clip, then you should be okay. Get there early and experiment with your gain settings. I wouldn't go above 6db, but if there is a spotlight you might not need it. I think you think that clip looks bad because of all of the youtube compression that you see. Your camera footage should look better than that.
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Thanks for responding. You're probably right about the youtube compression. I've watched a few more of their clips and they aren't that bad. I think I'm just nervous, having never done anything like this before and I want to make it look as professional as possible.

So for my scene settings, should I just shoot everything flat? Or just see what the regular scene files look like once I get there?
 
If you shoot flat, then you will have to spend some color correcting time. For a live event for friends, I would just find a nice scene file.
 
Sounds good, thanks. It's for friends, but they want to put it on DVD to help promote their show, so I just want to give them the best quality possible. Hopefully a scene file will work!
 
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