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Hoyer, MyriamSeeing what you hear, hearing what you seeMotion picture direction in audio-visual recordings of classical music concertscategory: Essay published in: das Orchester 02/2008, Page 27 |
Increasingly, concerts are recorded as audio-visual documents, for TV broadcasting of for sale as DVD, putting specific demands on motion picture direction. Concerts do not offer much "action" which means that any dramatic tension has to be created by means of camera position, long shot or close-up, cut, background and lighting. To combine these elements it is necessary to agree on a general concept and aesthetics, taking into account the nature of the event and the aim of the documentation. Most of all, it must be remembered that concert recordings are not visual, but audio-visual documents and that image and sound must work together, not against each other.