Ideas for video

When thinking of ideas about how we could so our project, Matt and Tara quite liked the idea of a first preson viewpoint, similar to that used in Peep Show.
Not necessarily for the whole video, but at the beginning we thought it would be quite good to see the person buying a ticket from their perspective, so you see the ticket person, camera looks down hands over the money, camera comes up again. Unfortunately, as we don't have the budget for helmet cams it would be a real pain the try and film that angle with the camera we are using.

My idea was a lot simpler, and was basically to smash together live footage. I think if you are trying to give a video the feel of a live event, you should stay away from lots of moving footage, or, as they have a tendancy to do in live DVD's, have massive cranes moving aroud to get more footage from the air. When Foo Fighters made their 'Live at Wembley' DVD, it consisted of hundreds of close ups and high angle swooping shots, because theatrically, they look good but it doesn't live the feel of the gig at all.
Live videos are supposed to be almost as good as if you were actually there, but the footage you are given from live videos just looks fake. There is no atmosphere, it looks nice and shiny but it doesn't look live. You can get as much footage from above the crowd as you want, but if it's all clean cut it doesn't work.

That's why i like the Beastie Boys 'Awesome i F***ing Shot That' video. It was live DVD where they gave 50 members of the audience who were all in completely different areas of the venue, video cameras and told them to keep it running all night. At the end of the show, they collected the cameras back, edited all the footage together and produced the DVD. As almost all of the footage was shot from within the crowd it looks and feels more like a ilve event. It still cuts a lot so clearly you aren't actually there, butthe cameras are getting bumped around by people in different songs, they are turning when the filmer looks around, the view is obstructed by the one guy in the venue that is taller than you and decides to stand at the front.

Most aspects of going to a show are incorporated as well as possible for a DVD and i tink it really works. That's why for our Fiver promo, i think we should try to use lots of live footage that shows the crowd, but also some just showing the stage and stuff. If we try and concentrate on getting all fancy and technical, i think we will lose the edge that this video needs to maintain interest.