Filming the showcase dvd

We finally got around to shooting video for our showreel. We'd been looking for a suitable location (cheap, photogenic and available)and in the end we settled for a local rehearsal studio. We were going to use our stage lights and blackout cloth to disguise it, but the results were poor to say the least, so we switched all the lights on and recorded it, just as it looked, warts and all (as the saying goes).

A friend kindly loaned us the use of his digital desk and we had three video cameras, so we aimed to play each song two or three times, filmed from three angles and then have a decent soundtrack and three videos to edit into a reasonable, albeit budget showreel to show potential bookers of the band.

It took a while to work out how to do everything, but four or five hours soon whizzed by. We've got a lot of audio to go through, plus a load of video. One of the cameras has hit a gltch that we might not be able to overcome, so we may only have two cameras for some songs, but we've no doubt that we'll have a suitable showreel within a week or two.