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Psilosopherr
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Idea/Need camera/production advice for making music festival music video 1
#26421488 - 01/07/20 04:54 PM (4 years, 1 month ago) |
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I'm mostly seeking advice for what sort of camera/mic would be sufficient for this as I have never done any video recording before and only minimal video editing before. Superior video quality would certainly be nice up to a certain price-point but my first priority is good sound. As far as mic considerations go: The festival I have in mind is small so all crowd noise will be desirable; and in fact aside from the actual videos of the acts I think the main cool thing about this is to get candid recordings of the hilarious things people say/do at festivals and use them as samples in music. I just know I'd find some gems to insert into some of my music. (if the morality of this is suspect, I will at least be asking the festival operators if it is okay for me to record and where it is/isn't okay to record if so. other thoughts on the morality of candids are welcomed.)
I also think it'd be productive to just "wear a wire" on my person to record candid audio when i don't feel like carrying the camera around. But again morality of this is in question, of course if I recorded anything people wouldn't want in music or in the video it would be removed. But I wouldn't want to advertise that I'm wearing a wire because then the candid funny moments wouldn't be as genuine.
I'm guessing I'd have to go the tripod route if I wanted it to come out good. Some camera user out there is facepalming but i'm just lookin for tips if anybody has em for a newby video producer, just had this idea 10 minutes ago but it sounds very worth pursuing and learning to do it right to me so any help is appreciated.
And also posting for general thoughts on the idea of course. I'm just stoned and on stimulants over here and listening to adult swim off the air stuff and just being blown away by the style of matching music to video and its givin me all these ideas about how to do something similar myself so heres the one that makes the most sense. Since I've been getting back into music making lately I started thinking of ways I could achieve something similar to adult swim OTA on my own.
And also the festival I have in mind is incredible but every year I go home saying I wish to god that somebody would professionally record video of all of the acts because I would pay good money for such a video. I would love to be able to provide that to the other attendees, for free of course. My favorite acts every year are some musician that has zero internet presence, its just some random guy/gal who lives at the festival grounds year round and just makes art for arts sake, so to be able to preserve that would be invaluable at least to me personally, since for some unknown reason they don't seem to take effort to preserve their own art or make it publicly available in any way.
I'm sorry if I'm rambling guys I'm really high, you should seen this before proof-reading.
Edited by Psilosopherr (01/07/20 05:47 PM)
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Re: Idea/Need camera/production advice for making music festival music video [Re: Psilosopherr] 1
#26422460 - 01/08/20 07:31 AM (4 years, 1 month ago) |
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So for the candid recordings, you should print up some waivers. I believe it could be illegal to record someone without their concent.
You can still record candid stuff but u need to brief them afterwords about recording them and perhapz have them sign a waiver saying its OK. Or you could talk to the festival organizators and ask them to add the waiver to their "festival orientation process" for people entering the festival.
As for recording video, try to get the most expensive one u can buy or rent a professional one. If possible, get a video camera that looks/functions like this one: https://www.sony.com/electronics/handycam-camcorders/fdr-ax1
Also look into some shoulder mounts for the video camera. Makes for more stable, smoother video recording.
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