We have different backgrounds in visual arts and rock music and joined forces in what seemed like an interesting celebration of the broad Doom genres.
Read on for a walkthrough of the whole process of this film.
In pre recording phase we had many ideas...
Use vhs cameras because they are cheap. connect them with digitizers and record live2hdd from different anglesthis proved to be hard as my operating system was also used for executing live light on one of the venues as well as recording desk sound. As well my OS couldnt accept my bought chinese digitzer capture usb things. It turned out they were knockoffs and i threw them out. they represent the whole budget spend on the movie itself.
Release the concerts as full concerts as a supplement to the movie.our sound recordings were in too bad a shape to get a general good concert sound. As well as disorganized. Another problem was our video channels from vhs over to HDV and DSLR it was in a bad shape and suffered from lack of good equipment and steady camera movements.
Release the movie on physical mediathe end movie has shapen up to be too short for a meaningful homegrown dvd release however as described in the end of this post, it may change.
travel around with the movie and show iti guess this was based on our feeling of this project being extremely awesome and the world would invite us… this hasn't happened and we have found the current relaxed situation more than welcome!
send all full concert recordings to the bands including the sound recordingsthis has proven to be too much work for us alone to fullfil so HELP!
The shooting process.
concerts:we shot nearly all concerts with three old vhs moviecameras (huge ones) that i had lying around. We shot everything on old horror movie tapes as well as disney and monty python tapes. the first tape to be used was an old "day of the dead" tape.
We recorded all live sound directly into my laptop with 96 khz. however internal fuzz from desks proved it dificult to be used.
Two other video angles was also used at concerts: My canon HDV hv20 and an unknown video-DSLR. The hv20 was used for placing at the back zooming in on the bands while having the ability of an overview as well.
Sometimes the in-camera audio of the Hv20 has been good enough that we have used it as THE audio in a concert snippet.
The DSLR was used on-stage, behind stage, in front of stage and in general all over the place by our friend.
Especially the DSLR footage proved incredible for the interesting angles.
Interviews:
For interviews i was dressed up with extension powercords over the shoulder, tape-pockets in my belt, tripod hanging from the bag holding the camera and microphone with cords as well as Headphones for monitoring.
Ive got the headphones from a dumpster in my hometown years ago.
The microphone we burrowed from a friends practice room.
coords i dug out from dumpsters.
The conncetion between the mic and the HV20 was ungrounded so the interviewer had to lick his hands before starting the interview so he could serve as ground by touching the mic, coord-jacks and adapters. It worked ok.
We had places were we interviewed. In general we placed the camera in the tripod, checked the tape, connected coords for power and mic, licked the interviewers hands, put on the Headphones and started talking.
This proved ok cause everything could be setup in minutes with me carrying the gear on my body (it also at the same time served as a nice comfort zone).
Lessons in chaotic order:
- Never shoot in different formats.
- If your aiming for a certain end bitrate then don't record in one that is too much higher (unless you have the storage and gear to handle it)
- Content rules. Visual look bitrate, audio quality etc is second
- Be able to have all your raw material in your desired resolution son the working machine.
we worked from a laptop and used a nas an usb disk as backups. - watch all your material through and organize it with filenames and a database with screenshots as well as descriptions of clips and subclips etc.
like here:
- Use ssd
i have 16gb ram and 256gb ssd in my laptop which has proven to be a nice platform for fast editing on a go. - have multimonitor setup. we didnt and it proved a pain to check out details in timeline as - well as effects and monitoring at the same time.
- record good audio
we corded incamera with an unshielded mic. i later have gained access to a dedicated soundrecorder which i highly recomend - get a good tripod
with smooth movements. DIY, bought or junk it makes a big difference. Being able to pan from face to face without too much jitter frees you from stress (our tripod was dumpster shit) - use a camera with battery
our camera had broken battery so i had to carry powercords around and hookup adapters all the time which is crap in a filled hall. - get the names of people, bands, songs, artwork etc of stuff you have recorded.
We didnt and it has been a pain in the ass to patch everything together afterwards. - prepare interviews
prepare all questions and even ekstra questions. Maybe tell the bands of which questions you are gonna ask beforehand if you want story related answers. - agree on silence
make some kind of platform that lets a question be asked by the interviewer followed by silence and then the answer. we didn't and sometimes we even helped answer our own questions. this got the interviews down to a conversational platform which proved meaningful. so guess it can fall both ways however in general never abbrupt or speak over the person answering a question. - online pre content
make online content available at a blog or something to generate hype - distribution
distribute you movie as a copyleft torrent or likewise to generate views and get feedback from the audience! - premiere
it its a movie doc. then premiere with one of the featured bands laying afterwards . We are going down that lane and it ROCKS! - light
record with light equipment . it loosens on the post-editing. and it makes the footage less granular.
Future
We have decided to let all original material appear in the future for people to play with and maybe edit together the concert recordingsWe will screenprint some t-shirts featuring the logo design by fimbul
Maybe a dvd with this movie as well as other unknown factor stuff will be available.
see you and please send us your feedback/words to the smellslikesweatWHATMAILhotmail.dk
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