I got to help a friend video record a DVD concert for three Southern Gospel bands and boy, was that pretty neat. Started pretty early in the morning, 10 AM and what they did, was set up and basically run two concerts. One without an audience and one with an audience. 6 video cameras were recording the event, as well as audio recording for a live cd and I was doing still photography with my new camera! (See, I told ya it was a professional tool! )
One of the cameras was mounted on an overhead boom. Now that was pretty neat. It would hover over the audience and take nice sweeping video of the stage and the audience. More than once it felt like a dinosaur overhead, it’s head dipping and moving so fluidly and slow. I would see it’s shadow pass over me and it just felt weird.
We used an auditorium of a Christian radio station in town, WPOS FM and that was very nice. Those that ran the facility were very nice people. In fact, I met so many nice people that was almost worth the whole long day! I love meeting music people, it feels so good. It’s definately a group of people that I identify with and enjoy being around so much. Hard to explain, but even the standing around and waiting (which there is a lot of in performance music) was enjoyable, talking and chatting with the various people all there to help out.
I am weird, I love seeing the big tour buses. It’s so cool. One of these days, I’d like to have one of my own! Ha… well, maybe not to tour in but hey, it would be fun. I would rent it out to local bands and drive them around in style. That would be a hoot.
One of the bands had driven all the way from Oklahoma that night before the concert and had to be back in Oklahoma on Sunday evening! Needless to say, the fellows were absolutely ready to catnap wherever they could.
My goodness, can those folks sing and harmonize! My goodness. Amazing talent, awesome gifts from God, no doubt. The Homesteaders, the Singing Weavers and the Master’s Voice were in presence. Three awesome groups and everyone of them amazing.
I’ve been dabbling in video myself and thought it would be neat to learn more. I’d like to get a nicer prosumer video camera at some point, but that’s after more raised beds, a bathtub and maybe even a few other little projects. Still, it’s great to experience such a thing and learn. Perhaps next time they do something like this, I might even be brave enough to run a camera!
You just never know.
