WBOI #8…
Keith and I just shot our 8th Wisconsin Business Owner Interview…This was probably one of our better shoots, at least for me personally on the technical end. I thought our Audio was really good, slight hum has per normal with the DVC-60 Panasonic, but besides that, it is loud and audible. Our guest Patricia Clason, kept that microphone fairly close, picking up a loud clear vocal pattern.
I set up three cameras, and I adjusted everything manually in our small panasonic cameras…usually I allow them to do the adjusting automatically…but this time I decided I was in charge of all the cameras, and I wanted the best possible look out of all of them. And that’s exactly what I got. These small Panasonic cameras are great on a consumer level, there is a definite difference between those and the large DVC-60, of course that has everything to do with the 1 CCD chip in the small cameras and the 3 CCD chip in the big camera. But what I like is that it is obviously a different camera, with a different quality to it. In some three camera shoots, especially with shoots related to bands, I like to keep one as a hand held camera…further emphasizing that this is a different look and feel. The DVC-60 is a very pristine camera, it is what it was designed for…and some people would only rather have that look and nothing else, but in most circumstances I like the look of using both. In some cases though I only want that pristine camera quality of the DVC-60…it is what it is.
I really feel that from a technical point of view each one of these videos is getting better and better…and now that I am doing these by myself, I have to get stronger at them. I am a rebel without a crew…and I can blame no body but myself for anything that goes wrong…that’s why I gotta make sure 100% that nothing does go wrong. That’s why this shoot was one of my best…because everything went smoothly…I hope it goes this smoothly in Post production also.
The runtime on the shoot was a little less then 57 minutes…with all the unusable footage that won’t be used it might bring the total runtime to around 45 minutes. Which next to the Al Gaudynski interview, this may be the longest one we have done yet.
I look forward to the next Wisconsin Business Owner Interview…number 9..