TimK
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Oct 29, 2004, 9:29 AM
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Re: [Ranko] Help needed for event videography
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You dont ever really want to be on stage. Find the best way to get your stuff without being a distraction to the action. Put one camera off stage to shoot the teachers on stage. You dont want to have just profiles of the speakers. There is no reason to be in the front row either. I dont know how high the stage is, but you dont want to shoot up their nose. The ideal place is the back of the room. Since you are editing down to 10 minutes, you can vary your shots from back there (some wide shots too). But dont go further back than your zoom will allow you to get tight shots either. Make sure you find a way to get elevated so standing people dont block your shot. The easiest way is just use a household ladder if your pod can get high enough on its own. You can maybe even arrange for a platform form the facility. Your roaming camera should give you a lot of b-roll, but use a pod for that too - maybe off to the side of the stage to shoot students. That camera can come off the pod here and there, but you want to use a pod as much as possible. Im not sure how long the actual teaching program is, but cutting to 10 minutes overall seems to give you a lot of freedom. A variety of different types of shots will make it more interesting and even seem like you have more than 2 cameras. Find out what the teaching script is, and if there are certain spots that you need to be on a certain type of shot for.
MAKE SURE YOU DO A MANUAL WHITE BALANCE and redo it as outdoor lighting changes.
(This post was edited by TimK on Oct 29, 2004, 9:33 AM)
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. Have a wedding this Saturday and will try using it. Let me know if you find out anything about that low hum. Could it be from your mic? I use to have this problem with my Sony MD player/recorder, and after I changed the mic sensitivity, the hum went away. 