Stupid Guest Tricks

Not sure how we'll safely do the helicopter inside, but okay. Sounds good to me.

I love the color capture on that camera. And, if we decide to do the concert underwater, we'll be covered!

Big Wallaby wrote:Not sure how we'll safely do the helicopter inside, but okay. Sounds good to me.

Okay, we're adding a third aircraft, RC Helicopter with a mounted camera. I know a guy...

As do I. So we are up to two... make that three helicams.

The Vocal Majority will be keeping the high-energy style, even if only to avoid being hit. One of the helicopter guys I know likes to get close.

Big Wallaby wrote:As do I. So we are up to two... make that three helicams.

The Vocal Majority will be keeping the high-energy style, even if only to avoid being hit. One of the helicopter guys I know likes to get close.

We can use him for the closeups of guys like Wombat who are tall and on the back riser.

I'll probably be riding in the helicopter outside, just for the fun of it!

Big Wallaby wrote:As do I. So we are up to two... make that three helicams.

The Vocal Majority will be keeping the high-energy style, even if only to avoid being hit. One of the helicopter guys I know likes to get close.

ktulu wrote:We can use him for the closeups of guys like Wombat who are tall and on the back riser.

I'll probably be riding in the helicopter outside, just for the fun of it!

So whenever I hear a loud whirring noise I should duck?

While we're talking about videoing the chorus, someone once filmed a documentary about the barbershop chorus competition, actually focusing on the Vocal Majority over a couple of years. The documentary, Voices, is 15 years old now so you may have to do some inter-library searches to find it (I did!), but it's a lot of fun, very entertaining and dramatic.

Realistically, I think we could do this with a 6 (maybe 8) camera setup

2 wide cameras, not centered, but from the right and the left
1 NFL-style flyover camera
1 remote control helicopter
1 helmet cam or baton cam for the director
1 camera behind the back row, for over the shoulder shots or for a closeup of the director.

add in a possible overhead camera hung from the lighting grid, and a remote controlled mini-blimp cam, and I think we've got all angles covered.

(why am I the first one on this thread to think about hanging a camera from the lighting grid?)

I want to watch the monitor for the back row camera. That'll be the one that picks up the collision between the helicopter and the flyover cam. :D:

I don't know how many times we'll be able to go to the baton cam before viewers get sick.

And I like more cameras than are ever necessary. Four helicopters minimum, one 125' boom, three other closer booms, The NFL-style flyover (I can understand why we don't have that one duplicated), fourteen handhelds, seven steady cameras all around the auditorium.

It will be the most epic choral video ever.

I want to be your power company.

I just assumed there would be five or six generators involved.

Now we need to discuss the lighting and pyro.