Week 2 saw the class coming together to begin recording a short music video. This is a vital skill as a music educator as part of our job involves recording performances, helping with productions and (most likely) helping other teachers use the equipment.
For this task, we made use of several different video and audio recording devices. On the right of the photo you can see two large video cameras; the one in the centre of the image was our default camera while the one on the right was being used for close-ups. We also made use of a small hand-held video camera (you can see me holding it in the photo) and a phone camera. The reason for the different video approaches was to allow for different angles and cuts, as well as to gain experience in using different technology. I found working with the different cameras really fascinating, as although I have experience with working with audio recorders such as the zoom in the photo, this was my first time using much of the video recording tech.
It was also interesting seeing how much difference lighting makes to the image seen by the cameras, and just how different the image our eye sees is to that which the camera sees. The light in the above photo looks super extreme (as it did in person), but for the video cameras it looked just right. We will have to wait to see exactly how it affected the hand-held recordings, but I'm sure whatever the result it will be a great learning experience and influence future recording decisions.
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