now this is where life gets complicated....

saw and replied to your vid on facebook via vm's introduction to it. pretty much echo pw's comments, and you answered my shooting question here...

so, with all these bloody lines of communication, where exactly are we to talk? i'm not going to start dual conversions....

still, i'll repeat for anyone popping by - bloody good video, great sound....

"Did you have any control over lighting? - It looks nice and natural. "

None at all. I would have gladly paid for some serious lighting myself however we had a problem. If I'd started to make it look like a "pro" shoot the church and the performers would have started asking for serious money. As it was the conductor / client was over $2K out of pocket just for the privelege of having his work performed in public.

"Did you use any Picture Profile or just standard?"

Just standard. Got a white balance off a card and left it and the iris alone. Much of the lighting on the day was coming in the windows and the clouds didn't help.

The organ was a bit of a problem. The pedals are lit by very green fluros, the keyboard by halogen downlights and there's some HID lighting that also creeps in and mystery blue light from somewhere as well.

"What mics, and where placed?"
Most of the audio is from one of the EX1's own mics plus my Sanken CS-1 on the camera into the other channel. I had the CS-1 because I'd found from the rehearsals that the soprano (she's only in part 2, yet to be uploaded) was getting lost in the orchestra. I would have done the audio much better if I had more time to setup and a way to get all the kit into the site. It was a fair distance from the nearest car park and I was working solo.As it turned out thanks to the acoustics of the church and me being in the front row it wasn't too bad. The organist was playing too quiet on the day. Getting the "mix" right is quite a challenge for the organist and conductor. Keeping it all in time and tune is another issue. The lead violin is in tune, just to a different tuning than the organ, yish, even I could hear that.

It was fun making this. Ever since I was a young nipper and my grandfather would take me to the afternoon recitals of the Sydney Town Hall organ I've had a thing for pipe organs, might also account for my love of heavy metal bands :). Getting to stand under the ranks of this smaller pipe organ while it was being played was quite an experience.

Bob.

[edit] I should mention the client / conductor is now a Vegas user, bought a copy of VMS on my recommendation.

I really liked this piece Bob. The lighting was perfect in my opinion. I wouldn't trade that for a lighting kit at all. The shots from the rehearsals blended very well. I do that all the time to simulate a multi-cam shoot. You did a great job.

John

Very nice indeed, Bob. :-)

Both light and sound is absolutly great.

/Ulf

Having only the light available to you, you shot this very well indeed. As you mentioned, I did see some colour jumps on the "socked-feet" B-roll.

I could add some editing comments here, but I wont. As a thought, I would have preferred to have the camera a little higher - I found the conductor's back-view tended to ultimately dominate the action in-front of him?

Overall I liked the framing with the stained glass taking a nicely proportioned domination of the upper third - nice.

As has been said, the audio was very clear and didn't hide any extraneous notes at all.

Grazie

Nice work Farss! ;-) I probably follow Grazie position. I like sweeping shots, but reality like money and time controls a lot of "can-do's" . But your shots are clear and bright, and the sound is good. Very nice work, especially being "upside down" down-under . ;-)