April - Filming a Series of Drum Lessons

We are planning to film and record twenty drum lessons over 4 days in April and my intention is to cover each day with a separate theme of the day's activity.

We spent day one setting up the lights and cameras and we filmed our drum tutor, Steve Wilson doing the voice over to all of the introductions and outro / summaries for all of the twenty lessons.

Day 1: setting up.

This is Richard, fearlessly setting up a Z5 for an overhead drum shot

Steve (drum tutor) recording (audio & video) his intros and outros. The blue screens behind him will be chroma keyed out creating a perfect black backdrop. Richie on the left is working the autocue, cameraman Alex with his back to the camera.

In the picture below you can see the Sennheiser 'shotgun' microphone used to record the audio and the monitor screen mounted on the camera stand that we use to check the shot. Richie is setting the autocue on the laptop.

We are fortunate to be working in a well equipped TV studio with our usual array of cameras, lights, diffusors, screens and a Pro Tools rig in the control room. 

The diffusors (the two white umbrellas) are used to light the subject with soft diffused light rather than having the powerful beam of the halogen spots 'bleaching out' the subject.

A good day!