deepvisual
26th July 2007, 04:05 AM
This is a big gig. 5? Hours of Televised Teen Acts all doing between one and 3 numbers with each track requiring a unique and rights cleared video background. That's a tough call for anyone.
Enter Digital Insanity.
RB and K8 have graduated from years of VJing overnight at raves to working onstage at large outdoor concerts. Its been a big change that of necessity has pushed them into being much more creative with their work, now having to keep a keen eye on 'rights' . The best way to ensure you have clearance is to make it all yourself, so they have slowly accumulated all the 'tackle' you need to do some serious shooting - HDV cameras, and reflecmedia backdrops and put in the time it takes to do it too. K8 is the creative powerhouse of the partnership while RB does all the fiddly stuff, drawing on his pre-visuals background in IT to make sure everything works all of the time - and it does.
Its a daunting and often thankless task setting out to create visual backdrops for bands and this gig required upwards of 150 clips to give verse/chorus/ breakdown/middle8s for each 'turn' as well as plenty of station idents and logos. That's a big task for anybody and to their credit, Digital Insanity made only one clip that the TV director didn't like and a helluva a lot of ones that he loved.
RBs real-time Hippo setup was one of the big reasons for this as everything that was pre-rendered could be significantly altered instantly to suit the cameras and the lights. Experienced VJs like RB can also pull out a unique set of skills and shortcuts that leave 'broadcast' people in awe - regularly doing things within seconds that would take days to do in an ?800 per hour edit suite in wardour street.
This time was no different and a host of bumpers and idents were crafted for the onscreen content. Watching the show on TV it was very hard to spot which ones were made by Digital Insanity and which ones were made by the T4 in-house post production team.
It was a whopping screen - 13 sections of 10mm mitsubishi LED with 3 full video screens broken down into quarters and scattered in a haphazard way to create a chaotic collage across the whole back of the stage. The LED lighting system running alongside gaps in the video tiles to make it all a very 'non-Odeon' backdrop.
Rb used Hipponet to control two dual output Hippotisers scanned down to PAL then VDA'd into 3 V4s going into 3 LED processors which allowed real time effects and 4 into 3 instant matrixing. The playback system was set at FOH which certainly would have helped much of the improv nature of the epic 5? hour show.
and what a show.. half a day of Pop pap from some truly dreadful artists miming to an audience of teenagers. At least the weather held and so did the visuals - many of which were very tongue in cheek - we were treated to 'your granny's gas fire' and a flurry of stop signs as well as some pleasant psychedelia and the innovative use of V4 wipes.
So that was it. Some moments of genius balanced with a healthy dose of visual sarcasm, a cool screen design with a modular playback system, plenty of 'legit' visual space filled onstage for the ever wandering cameras and a crowd of sing-along teenagers who probably didn't even notice.
I think T4 got their moneys worth.
http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.channel&ChannelID=178160115
Enter Digital Insanity.
RB and K8 have graduated from years of VJing overnight at raves to working onstage at large outdoor concerts. Its been a big change that of necessity has pushed them into being much more creative with their work, now having to keep a keen eye on 'rights' . The best way to ensure you have clearance is to make it all yourself, so they have slowly accumulated all the 'tackle' you need to do some serious shooting - HDV cameras, and reflecmedia backdrops and put in the time it takes to do it too. K8 is the creative powerhouse of the partnership while RB does all the fiddly stuff, drawing on his pre-visuals background in IT to make sure everything works all of the time - and it does.
Its a daunting and often thankless task setting out to create visual backdrops for bands and this gig required upwards of 150 clips to give verse/chorus/ breakdown/middle8s for each 'turn' as well as plenty of station idents and logos. That's a big task for anybody and to their credit, Digital Insanity made only one clip that the TV director didn't like and a helluva a lot of ones that he loved.
RBs real-time Hippo setup was one of the big reasons for this as everything that was pre-rendered could be significantly altered instantly to suit the cameras and the lights. Experienced VJs like RB can also pull out a unique set of skills and shortcuts that leave 'broadcast' people in awe - regularly doing things within seconds that would take days to do in an ?800 per hour edit suite in wardour street.
This time was no different and a host of bumpers and idents were crafted for the onscreen content. Watching the show on TV it was very hard to spot which ones were made by Digital Insanity and which ones were made by the T4 in-house post production team.
It was a whopping screen - 13 sections of 10mm mitsubishi LED with 3 full video screens broken down into quarters and scattered in a haphazard way to create a chaotic collage across the whole back of the stage. The LED lighting system running alongside gaps in the video tiles to make it all a very 'non-Odeon' backdrop.
Rb used Hipponet to control two dual output Hippotisers scanned down to PAL then VDA'd into 3 V4s going into 3 LED processors which allowed real time effects and 4 into 3 instant matrixing. The playback system was set at FOH which certainly would have helped much of the improv nature of the epic 5? hour show.
and what a show.. half a day of Pop pap from some truly dreadful artists miming to an audience of teenagers. At least the weather held and so did the visuals - many of which were very tongue in cheek - we were treated to 'your granny's gas fire' and a flurry of stop signs as well as some pleasant psychedelia and the innovative use of V4 wipes.
So that was it. Some moments of genius balanced with a healthy dose of visual sarcasm, a cool screen design with a modular playback system, plenty of 'legit' visual space filled onstage for the ever wandering cameras and a crowd of sing-along teenagers who probably didn't even notice.
I think T4 got their moneys worth.
http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.channel&ChannelID=178160115