The other night, I had the opportunity to bring a camera to Murphy & Scarletti's to shoot some footage of my friend's new band - clarification: the band isn't new, but Vando only recently joined it. Tainted Cherry is a cover band based out of Meriden, CT. According to the band, Jamie, Jarod, Vando, and Damon make up "Connecticut's newest modern rock party band! We are the fresh alternative, playing your favorite modern rock, radio rock, and classic cover tunes."
I have known Vando for several years, now, having worked as the sound engineer for one of his former bands. Wanting to get some varied experience with the camera, I had asked him if it would be alright if I came to the gig. He, along with the rest of the band, was happy to have me record the event. It was a really good performance by the band and I was able to get some great footage - even though there were some issues with the camera.
Today, I am going to go into the studio to capture the footage into the editing program. I don't really care if I use AVID or Final Cut for the job but I had previously reserved some time to use Final Cut today, so that is what I will be using. Besides, the way CSB has things set up, once I get all the video footage captured into the computer, it is more convenient to use Final Cut.
Once I have captured and reviewed the footage for content and quality, I plan to edit it down to at least 3 or 4 videos. For most of the performance, I had the camera mounted on a tripod with the audio feed coming straight from the sound board. As a result, most of the footage is a wide shot of the band - though I did occasionally pan the crowd and zoom in on the individual band members. While the audio is constant, there will be some transitions when I had to re-focus and such that I will want to edit out of the video segment. For the purpose of filling in those spots, I took the camera off the tripod (and switched to the shotgun mic) to get some close-ups of both band and crowd from different angles during the last few songs of the night. Because I can maintain the integrity of the audio track but splice in the various video clips, I should be able to produce some really nice videos for several of the songs. My goal is to at least do a video for their performance of Guns N' Roses' Sweet Child o' Mine and RUSH's Tom Sawyer. I have to admit, Jamie did justice to both Slash and Alex Lifeson. And while no one can match Neil Peart on drums, Damon was impressive on Tom Sawyer. After I review what I have captured, I will make the judgment as to what other songs will be edited and posted to YouTube. Hopefully, the stuff that I produce will be good enough for Tainted Cherry to use to promote themselves as "Connecticut's newest modern rock party band!"
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