Photo Videos and Photos at Gigs
I never quite get why people why people do this. All that time spend at a gig gazing through a phone screen, mostly so that you can tell your friends who aren't there that you were there.
But then, I made a little video the other night, and got goosebumps watching it back, and it all started to make sense http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fPP8c0WNHeg
Thoughts on this phenomenon? Anything you've taken that your proud of?
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i like it when there's high quality live recordings of stuff i like on youtube
gigs recorded on peoples phones can fuck off though
It's because they're lemons. Nothing else to understand.
Personally, I'd be happy if all phones etc were confiscated on the way in to every gig and handed out again at the end.
Is that really what counts as a circle pit these days?
Uploaded the wrong video. Was more circle out in the other.
Pit*
it's fine to take a couple of photos and videos
Just don't do it for the entire gig. That's just stupid.
People wasting their time taking crap photos they will never, never, never look at again
whilst ruining the gig for everyone else by sticking their phone right up in front of your face.
One of those features of the modern world lost on a grumpy old man like me.
It's not just a gig thing, it's an everywhere thing
Have you ever been to the British Museum lately?
There's probably a crap sociology PhD to be written here somewhere
There seems to be a growing feeling that you haven't really experienced something unless you have recorded it in some way
Whereas in fact the act of recording it is actually stopping you from experiencing it properly because you're looking at the screen of your phone instead of what is in front of you
I hate the guys who turn around and sort of pan the camera across the crowd behind them
like they're filming the start of Apocalypse Now.
I like this comment combined with your username.
I died a little bit inside when you, Sean, posted a photo of the gig on Twitter
I thought you knew better. Having said that the angle of the thing looked like you were well entrenched in upstairs guest list land and I'm sure no one else there even knew who was playing. Haven't seen the video. I couldn't make the gig which made me sad but I can confirm if I had gone I would not have recorded the night by any way of camera apparatus.
So basically no don't do it. Whenever I've told (asked) people not to hold bloody phones up in front of my sight line they've always done as I asked without question, which goes to show there is a certain amount of embarrassment/lack of social acceptance of the practice, so if everyone keeps on objecting we'll keep it that way.
I've seen Blood Red Shoes about 30 times, and I felt proud seeing them on such a big stage. I mostly took a photo to remind myself in the future how a band can go from playing to 25 people first on in a shoreditch basement to SBE without compromising.
what I don't like is it used to be people taking pictures of the band
But now most of the kids seem to just take photos of themselves/their friends to prove they were there. Your cameras the wrong way!
I miss my camera, it had an awesome mic
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zgRYVLNnjmg
forgive the excessive zooming, it was a new toy :D
Photo videos
Phone*
one or two photos - fine
more than a minute or so fiddling with phone camera or videoing entire trenches of the gig - not so good
You go to gigs that have trenches?
They sound hardcore.
Phosphorescent "Lost Name"
this band had a rare moment in time where they were really really good at just shredding some guitars and jamming out neil young style ... I thought this recording was half decent considering it was only recorded on a rather crap video camera. You can decently hear the mix... it doesn't really matter, it always gives me chills when I run it back
http://youtu.be/n9ZDxisI29w
also, with etiquette...
if i film video at a gig i try to be in the front so i can film it with no concern for the video really, just want to hear the audio ... so then i can just put it around my neck, maybe point it up a bit at the stage... no one behind me can even tell i'm filming. it might be silly but i try not to ruin anyone's experience. i just try to film it or grab audio so i can run the experience back for myself later.
Quicksand set in Brooklyn in August
not my video, but this guy from around my way ALWAYS puts up great videos with great audio. He's doin' it real big though with a fancy recorder and audio recorder ... but i think it's really awesome for just a guy walkin into the show with a ticket and setting up a camera somewhere in the balcony!
also, it sucks that this particular video is only partial since he got kicked out the show. that's new york for ya. most small venues in philly (where I'm from...) don't really care!
http://vimeo.com/48271777