In March, I had the opportunity to record a concert by the extremely talented Sofi Nava, a recent PCC graduate who I met on a photo assignment. This was a rather unique experience for me, doing a two-camera shoot totally alone. In terms of lighting and sound, the technical quality was at the mercy of the hall. Some words about how I did it follow the videos.
Enjoy!
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Two Cameras—One Person (how I did it)
This was quite literally a one-person, 2-camera shoot. I didn’t even have help carrying or setting up my equipment. I had Nikon Z8 recording a static shot at 2K and ambient sound up in the sound booth, a Zoom recorder attached to their board recording the house audio mix. On the floor, I was shooting with a Sony NX-100, mostly handheld. It all was edited in DaVinci Resolve.
Though I’ve been asked to salvage several concert shoots like this as editor, this is the first time I got to run the whole thing by myself. I learned some lessons and I think the next opportunity will be a whole lot better based on that. (I should have used the Zoom to record both ambient and the board on its 4 channels and adding a GoPro would have been great.) My thanks to the amazingly talented Sofi Nava and her friends for inviting me to do this!
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