Hi

Here's a film mainly done from a live production I'm quite satisfied with. It was a caritative event to raise money so the budget was limited. It's only a small extract from a 3 hours performance. Everything was done in a single (long) day, absolutely no rehearsals, the musicians arrived 2 hours before the show, we only could ask them to get on stage for light adjustments. The acoustic in this room is pretty lame, my sound technician did a great job with only a pair of microphones which had to be invisible. There are no technological aspects in this production, it's pure live switching - what I like the most - where only artistic considerations matter.

The crew was composed of 5 people:
- 2 excellent cameramen (one of them was responsible for the lightning)
- 1 sound engineer
- 1 video technician who also operated a PTZ during the show
- 1 director

The equipments:
- 2 Panasonic HDX700 with Fujinon optics and full servo Iris/Zoom/Focus control kit on the tripods arm
- 2 Canon HF G25 (1 for large angle from the ceiling, the other on a motorized PTZ head)
- 2 mikes for stereo take with a Yamaha audio mixer
- 4 1K tungstene spot lights (I don't know the name/type in english - "Découpe" in french)
- 1 intercom unit
- and last but not least: vMix ! ;o)

No multirecording or other post-production possibilities, no CCU. We did the color matching manually.
It had to be real live production with a single recording, no right for mistakes. The show was also displayed on several big screen TVs at the venue.

Here's the link. Hope you'll like it!


Guillaume

Great, very professional and great direction.

Great production!

I found a picture taken from the audience

You're right Richard I did it all with cuts and I regret this. I'm not a big fan of quick fades and I'm used to switch "on sound/tempo" even for speeches but there was room enough for long fades using the T-Bar, especially when the cellist was alone on stage.

Guillaume,
Very nice, its great to see what can be done with your equipment.
Great music as well.

Yes great production!! Was the audio mixed in vmix and was it foh mix or a different mix? ,only criticism would be to have a fill light on background to eliminate those shadows ,and add some color,and mix is very dry,in means of processing,but that's ok ,i usally multitrack audio and mix later .that Chello would be nice with a touch of verb on it ....but it is real good and. Great cam work .i know it's hard!!