Internet Folk Guitar 'Legend' seeks to Improve Quality of Field Recordings

[jacktadoussac]

Originally Posted by loujudson

Guitar sounds fine. How about hiring and editor and a lighting technician? I'm so tired of amateur video. No wonder the pros get over $600 a day just to point and shoot...

Seriously, why is the light behind you, and why did you not cut out the part about the lens not pointing at you?

When you make records do you keep in the tuning and the silly questions from the band?

Sorry but I had to say it. Lighting is dramatic and lall, but can't see the subject: the pick!

Lou

Loudon, you raise some good points. I solved the lighting problem in a subsequent video by parking my camcorder tripod by the bright window and shooting into the room. Of course, usually the room is untidy, with papers and instruments, so I put up a backdrop.

I have to, at some point, clarify by goals -- the Jack Tadoussac persona is as much about storytelling, and shooting the bull about film and media, as it is about acoustic guitar and folklore.

Recent rushes:

YouTube - Dogline 2007 Manifesto


YouTube - Dogline2007ClipNo2_0002


YouTube - Dogline2007ClipNo2_0002A


Danish Film Movement that inspired the production of the Dogline2007 Series of Videos:

Welcome to the official DOGME 95 - WEBSITE

Welcome to the official DOGME 95 - WEBSITE


Many of my 'production standards' are in violation of the Dogmme95 concepts. I have copied these points here mainly to emphasize I'm more into the field recording style, using the video camera as you would an early model Ampex, or cylinder roll.

Here they are. I think this stuff is mainly about the here and now....but you be the judge:
I swear to submit to the following set of rules drawn up and confirmed by DOGME 95:


1. Shooting must be done on location. Props and sets must not be brought in (if a particular prop is necessary for the story, a location must be chosen where this prop is to be found).


2. The sound must never be produced apart from the images or vice versa. (Music must not be used unless it occurs where the scene is being shot).


3. The camera must be hand-held. Any movement or immobility attainable in the hand is permitted. (The film must not take place where the camera is standing; shooting must take place where the film takes place).


4. The film must be in colour. Special lighting is not acceptable. (If there is too little light for exposure the scene must be cut or a single lamp be attached to the camera).


5. Optical work and filters are forbidden.


6. The film must not contain superficial action. (Murders, weapons, etc. must not occur.)


7. Temporal and geographical alienation are forbidden. (That is to say that the film takes place here and now.)


8. Genre movies are not acceptable.


9. The film format must be Academy 35 mm.


10. The director must not be credited.

Furthermore I swear as a director to refrain from personal taste! I am no longer an artist. I swear to refrain from creating a "work", as I regard the instant as more important than the whole. My supreme goal is to force the truth out of my characters and settings. I swear to do so by all the means available and at the cost of any good taste and any aesthetic considerations.
Thus I make my VOW OF CHASTITY."

Copenhagen, Monday 13 March 1995

On behalf of DOGME 95


Lars von Trier
Thomas Vinterberg

[loujudson]

RE: "Loudon, you raise some good points. I solved the lighting problem in a subsequent video by parking my camcorder tripod by the bright window and shooting into the room. Of course, usually the room is untidy, with papers and instruments, so I put up a backdrop.

I have to, at some point, clarify by goals -- the Jack Tadoussac persona is as much about storytelling, and shooting the bull about film and media, as it is about acoustic guitar and folklore."

All very interesting. Unfortunately I have extremely little interest in video - so I'll back out of this discussion gracefully...

In my sound business, when people ask about lights or video, my canned response is "I don't do lights or camera - I just critique them." so pardon me for butting in...

Lou

[swafford]

Wait....I don't see a camera.

[jacktadoussac]

Originally Posted by swafford

Wait....I don't see a camera.

I know it's not very gear-slutty, but a single camera cannot take a picture of itself, unless it has a flexible fibre-optic lens attachment (like they use in medicine)...