How To Film A Live Band Music Video With 3 Cameras

In this video I show you how I filmed a live band music video with a three camera set up. I go over how I set up the cameras, lighting, matched the shots in editing and then colour graded them.

Instagram @harv_video_audio_stuff

[HarvVideoAudioStuff]

Enjoy guys, I hope you find this helpful :)

[Johnnykrigel]

Loved that overhead diagram that helped me loads thank you!

[victormultanen]

You are so kind, Sir, to explain break through the entire BTS of band shoot. Thanks a lot!

[i.do.v]

very helpful and practical, I wish you'd explain audio setup too

[csmdgmehub]

This is really informative and great stuff. That overhead diagram is of huge help! Thanks tons!

[andymarsal]

definitely gona use this info, thanks Harv!

[meganarnold]

This video helped me so much. I am starting out in independent filmmaking and filming a few live sessions for local musicians social media pages soon and this is one of the most informative videos I've watched. Thank you!

[NickDelDuca]

Watched the actual music video. The A7siii footage looks substantially better than the other 2. I actually think the A7sii footage looks better than the EOS R. But you did a nice job blending them together. After getting the Siii and playing with it more I'm really starting to notice the weird ways the 8 bit color of the previous cameras fell apart in certain situations.

[seecraig]

Thanks for the overview. Perhaps explain how you did the color temperature and tint adjustments particularly your use of the scopes. Matching cameras can be a challenge for many of us.

[verycoolandrelaxed]

super, super helpful. thank you so much!

[kanemmusic]

Thanks for this! I’m checking this out so I can sort out camera placement for playing live. It’s all gonna be static cameras

[edmessinger]

Awesome video, brah. I’ve learned so much since subscribing to your channel! Keep up the amazing work and wear tighter trousers 😉

[chimicherry]

I have thissss little problem that the drummer is the singer too. FML, I can't find the right angle to record this. Any Ideas? (:

[GaryMeadowsMusic]

Great advice. I want to do a shoot of my music, singer songwriter original songs.
I have 3 nikon d3200, d3100 and zoom h6 and several mics. Me on acoustic guitar vocals and another guy on the cajon.Wish me luck.

[williamsa]

Hi Harv, so I love your stuff and especially your videos on S-Log 2 Exposure helped me a ton. This video was pretty insightful so thanks for uploading it, I do have one recommendation to make to you though (as its a pet peeve of mine that I see on YouTube ALL the time). You show in this video how you added a letterbox effect to get that 'widescreen look', but this is the totally wrong way to go about widescreen video. Whenever you're delivering in widescreen you should be setting the project canvas resolution to a custom size, based on the aspect ratio and resolution you want.

As an example if you are delivering in 4K but want the classic widescreen aspect ratio of 2:35:1, then the resolution should be 3840x1634. You should never ever just edit in a standard 16:9 project timeline and add a letterbox. The reason for this are twofold; firstly it just wastes storage space since you're outputting two black bars of blank dark pixels into your final file (which also can end up with noise artifacts on certain publishing sites). But secondly and more importantly, if someone who actually has a widescreen display tries to view your content (wether it be a monitor, projector or even mobile phone) then they won't even be able to benefit from the content being 'widescreen' since its actually just a 16:9 video with artificial black bars at the top and bottom. Hope this helps :)

[dm]

Hi,
Thanks for the short, sweet and to the point video. Really interesting. In regards to colour matching multiple cameras. Did you do any shots with a white card and a colour board with each camera to help with the colour grading in post? I have found this to be really helpful to get the match to about 90% quickly followed with minimal tweaks to get it to best match. Thanks

[jacopoabbruscato]

That was very useful! Do you have tips on making the workflow smoother when it comes to syncing the audio?

[cordcla]

Hi! Great tutorial and the final work is amazing. I am really interested how you capture/record the audio being played. Is the sound track recorded by the different cameras and then synced with the audio from the mixer? Or do you record directly from the mixer to the cameras mic. Inputs? Thank for your time,

[Lunar_Films]

With the hand held shots you did, how did you edit these into the 2 static camera timelines? As in, how did you match the footage at the right time frames if the hand held camera wasn’t continuously recording?

[johnnyceeuontheroad.]

Cool Vlog, How did you record the audio? was it straingt into cameras or recording devise? and how did you sync audio to video?? Thanks..