Shoot that Show
If you've watched a movie or music awards telecast, you know that videotaping auditorium shows is a fine art. Seems like 92 cameras capture the action without ever losing sharp focus while jib arm microcams rocket all over the joint. No matter which camera is on-line, the sound is as perfect as the hair-dos. It's no wonder that by contrast your tape of The Millard Fillmore High School Jazz Band Concert looks so dim and sounds so yucky.
Well now you too can make quality tapes of auditorium programs and we're about to show you how. The result won't look quite like the Oscars show, but then your hardware doesn't quite cost $10 million either.
So come on down to "A Theater Near You," as they say: a school auditorium or converted cafeteria, a municipal theater, maybe a meeting/banquet hall in a hotel. Even at this holiday season, we won't include houses of worship because many churches and synagogues have understandably strict rules about videotaping. You'll see, though, that most of our advice applies in those halls as well. We'll cover camera placement and audio recording strategies, taping multiple performances, and editing the results into classy …
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