Response to Concert Shoots

Hi there! I'm a freelance cameraman in Dublin Ireland and have shot many multi camera shoots for music television. Recently a producer asked me to shoot a rock concert with 7 cameras and he wanted to do it on a mixture of Canon XL1s and Sony VX1000s without an OB unit and basically putting a tape in each camera. This was all new to me but said yes anyway. I figured why not see what happens. So I was the No.1 camera from FOH on the lead singer, there were 4 other operators in the auditorium and one remote locked off behind the drum riser. I recently saw the finished product and to be honest, it looked fantastic. All of this new digital stuff, as ever, depends on the quality of the lighting and the camerawork. It was cut on Media 100 in one day and is now available on sell-through and will possibly be broadcast in spring2000. The OB truck seems to be out the window!

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