Yesterday showed a solid 60-90 minutes getting geared-up to play / shoot the video. So this has to start rolling by 9:00 pm if it will happen tonight and it would be cool to do it again tonight.
The biggest consideration is the lasers because Yevette really hated getting blasted by the blue laser. It's the most powerful at 300 mW whereas laser pointers will usually be about 5 mW.
It looks like the solution may be to change the camera angle. If the primary camera is about a foot off the floor and looking up to frame the guitarist, there shouldn't be such a battering from the lasers. That will get complicated to frame because there are two non-laser devices which put colors all over the wall behind me and I don't want that lost.
The other static camera is set up at ninety degrees to the path of the lasers so it doesn't get battered at all but stationing another camera in a similar position only gets more of the same rather than providing something visually interesting relative to the last viewpoint.
The fogger was supposed to be running on full auto last night whereas usually I trigger it manually. That didn't work too well so that needs more study. It's variable for frequency of smoke bursts and their duration but that didn't pick up and I was definitely wanting more smoke to better define the paths of the laser beams.
There shouldn't be much fiddling with audio levels because I did that last night. The changes haven't been verified but that's only a quick check before rolling it. The most important check is to ensure the vocal has been boosted sufficiently because it definitely wasn't loud enough and the singing is really important to this one.
Mystery Lady, I haven't forgotten about pushing the vocal with the diaphragm but there really isn't enough air to push. I will keep repeating this until I'm satisfied the singing gives up everything I possibly have in me and I'm not simply miking the vocal out of laziness or wimpiness.
There wasn't much feedback on the guitar so the overall volume must increase to get it. Feedback is much more than ear-splitting squeals and can be played with great finesse so long as the kit is set up well enough to do it. The feedback has to be a genie which comes when wiggling a string for sustain but it mustn't be so hot the feedback comes with any move you make.
The NASA countdown has started. Looks like about T-100 until the primary launch sequence begins and aiming for 9:00 pm.
The biggest consideration is the lasers because Yevette really hated getting blasted by the blue laser. It's the most powerful at 300 mW whereas laser pointers will usually be about 5 mW.
It looks like the solution may be to change the camera angle. If the primary camera is about a foot off the floor and looking up to frame the guitarist, there shouldn't be such a battering from the lasers. That will get complicated to frame because there are two non-laser devices which put colors all over the wall behind me and I don't want that lost.
The other static camera is set up at ninety degrees to the path of the lasers so it doesn't get battered at all but stationing another camera in a similar position only gets more of the same rather than providing something visually interesting relative to the last viewpoint.
The fogger was supposed to be running on full auto last night whereas usually I trigger it manually. That didn't work too well so that needs more study. It's variable for frequency of smoke bursts and their duration but that didn't pick up and I was definitely wanting more smoke to better define the paths of the laser beams.
There shouldn't be much fiddling with audio levels because I did that last night. The changes haven't been verified but that's only a quick check before rolling it. The most important check is to ensure the vocal has been boosted sufficiently because it definitely wasn't loud enough and the singing is really important to this one.
Mystery Lady, I haven't forgotten about pushing the vocal with the diaphragm but there really isn't enough air to push. I will keep repeating this until I'm satisfied the singing gives up everything I possibly have in me and I'm not simply miking the vocal out of laziness or wimpiness.
There wasn't much feedback on the guitar so the overall volume must increase to get it. Feedback is much more than ear-splitting squeals and can be played with great finesse so long as the kit is set up well enough to do it. The feedback has to be a genie which comes when wiggling a string for sustain but it mustn't be so hot the feedback comes with any move you make.
The NASA countdown has started. Looks like about T-100 until the primary launch sequence begins and aiming for 9:00 pm.
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