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Posted by James on 09/26/74 11:43
"Richard Crowley" <rcrowley@xpr7t.net> wrote in message
news:122dbk9e6npta4c@corp.supernews.com...
> "DanR" wrote ...
> > The 2nd camera would have been nice for adding crowd sounds
> > (applause) as a PA mixer would not use crowd mics.
>
> And even if you put the 2nd camera adjacent to the first, locking
> it own for a wide ("cover") shot would free up the first camera
> for getting closeups, pans, etc. Having the combination would
> give you not only a "variety" (of at least two) of shots, but would
> give you the wide shot to cover akward moves with the "primary"
> camera.
There wasn't even space to do that anywhere that provided a useable vantage
point. This place is literally built to be like an old barn, with support
posts around the perimeter of the dance floor that limited where you could
stick a camera and not get one of these posts in the shot. I was just lucky
there was a relatively clear view where I was. In the immediate space where
I was was a large sound board and the sound guy had to stand at his board,
and some other gear of his took up whatever other space there was.
Just a really bad setup to do video unless you had the cams mounted on the
rafters or something going to a real video board and it wasn't that
elaborate of an exercise. They might have made such accomodations for some
of the big name acts that come in from time to time but they were basically
doing my friend a favor letting her make a tape in the first place.
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