EBS_freak

They say that pictures paint a thousand words. However, in this case, I feel a few labels may have been a little more appropriate. Would have liked to see some collars on the LEDs too. But hey, fair play on getting something to market. Difficult task.

Softboxes are too big as you say. These LED panels are the size of a page of A4.

You want diffused lights anyway (if you are looking for smooth shadows) like the 3rd clip.

Static cameras. I have a few tricks in post to give it a more organic look. As for roving cameras - tricked you... what you see in the audience didn’t necessarily happen at that precise moment in time. That’s the beauty of having additional clips available to you in the edit. Transitions are intentionally hard... as you would see on the TV. It’s very rare to see cheesy transitions in a professional production, with the exception of a cross fade. No hard 6 second rule. This is where your artistic eye has to come into play. Change as appropriate to fit the action and music. Audio - whatever you can get. Desk. Ambient. Onboard camera. Time align in DAW and process to the best of your ability.

If your thread is 1/4” you are good to go. Otherwise you’ll need a 3/8” to 1/4” adapter. Ive got an assortment of k&m mounts... which are always useful for clamping onto things

Myself and my mate have been doing live performance vids for some time - here’s a few from us - heres one I did with one of my bands - this one seems to get lots of love - @Happy Jack - this was in the darkest corner of a city centre bar. Two LED lights providing some help!

Mere flesh wound, right?

Trust your scopes - and work to that skin tone line!

Oops. I have to say, that colour correction is the single most difficult thing to get right... and it all stems from getting it right at source. The only reason I mention it, is to help you in the long run. The earlier start, the quicker you can start learning from your mistakes. Im battling with colour grading at the moment and a lot of that comes from getting your colour correction right... and I'm still not great at it. I can get it down in perfect conditions... but lets face it, videos shot like this tend to never be in perfect conditions. If you want my absolute critique... I have to say I hate the opening titles. Sometimes static titles is where it's at. I always ask myself this... "Would I see this on the TV"? If the answer is no, you are probably putting yourself in the Microsoft Movie Maker camp. A lot of the transitions and special fx that are in the core offerings of applications are there because they have to be there because of what competitor products have included. Doesn't mean you have, or should use them. Digital zoom is generally poor unless you are pixel binning from say 4k to a delivery format of 1080. Try to avoid at all costs - I tend to allow for 10% crop if I'm going into lossy crops but I would always choose to crop from 4 or 6k footage down to 1080. I would wager your best future purchases would be lights by the way.. the more light you can get to your sensor the better... and and as you get your head around it all, you'll realise that the last thing you want is an 8 bit camera!

Bravo. In reference to your statement in the first post - remember that this game is all about practice. And done is preferable to things never making a final render. Thats a decent effort there - obviously the constraints of the source footage are coming into play as you zoom and crop - but you know what, so what? Next advice would be looking at a bit of colour correction to get your skin tone a bit more realistic... But you know what, that's already a hell of a lot better than most bands will ever put out... So well done!

Absolutely, SEISS and Furlough payment scheme can be added to the list.

I didn't think much of the dialogue in Debbie Does Dallas.

Sounds like a quote from Independence Day.

Got to get them sterilised and micro chips implanted somehow... (tongue firmly in cheek)

It's all sewn up. These people don't get into politics for the good of the people. Lets face it, it's pretty much impossible for the average person to get into politics. Who can afford not to work the day job when they canvas? All of these MPs tend to be inherited/married into wealth or sit on boards where they turn up one day a month whilst creaming the profits.... So that they can get a position in government, not for the salary (lets face it, the MP salary is peanuts to these folk) - but for the opportunity to grease the wheels of corruption to land more cash in their coffers. Not a lot changes... Whatever the party, the outcome is the same.

Totally. It does. But why would backhanded deals, corruption and cronyism this year not being called out this year be different to any other year?

Its all a bit cringe having an opening song imho. Just remember, Showaddywaddy went on to the Dam Busters Theme.

Excellent - shall have a look at that as a boredom killer 😛 Thanks again.

Oh man, that’s fabulous. Nicely done. I don’t suppose (pretty please) you have your transcription that you would be willing to share?

Its a beautiful thing!

So where is this video? You know what they say... a thread without err... videos...

That just looks how I imagine the OP one should look... apart from I had seafoam green in mind. It's kinda got that 50 futuristic (oxymoron, I know) look about it? Like all the retro US car styling.

As a collective, we did an experiment to try as many beans brands as we could... Branston came out on top. As for the salt thing... well, it's odd how you can pick up thousands of views from musicians yet none of them can bring themselves to comment or acknowledge. A little salty eh?

Err... funny you should mention that... I joke.

Despite my name, I dont use it anymore!