The Sound of the Crowd
At concerts lately, I’ve been seeing so many digital cameras. Whether it’s a cell phone camera or a Cybershot, taking your own concert pictures is a new trend. Venues have become much more lax on cameras since most people own camera phones. It’s such a hassle to go back to the car to put it up. I know from experience. So I used to not even bother bringing one up until a few years ago. Now, I’d say 20-30% of the crowd are always lifting up their arms to grab photos.
I haven’t seen that many camcorders, except the ones held by special sanctioned photographers. I have seen a video cam set up to broadcast the concert on the internet. Some venues even provide the artist with the equipment to record their set. It’s like a perk of playing at their space. A venue can find a panasonic digital camcorder lowest price somewhere. Then, hire maybe one extra person to shoot the music performance. Then, that same person could also upload the content on the venue’s website. It’s like dual advertising for both the venue and the band. And if they wanted to go a step further, they could provide an interactive section of the site to allow members to view or even download the content. That would build loyalty to the venue and be an extra bonus for a die-hard fan of the musician.
Other musical groups bring their own crew. They just give a camcorder to a friend to record their performance. They can use it to make a music dvd or video later. Or they could use it to learn what they need to work on in their live shows. I even heard of a band who videotaped themselves during a song. The song was really slow with the instrumentation broken up, so in some parts the drummer could man the camera for a minute. And then, the guitarist would take over. And they used a camcorder to do the whole thing since it was easy to pass around. Pretty creative stuff can be done with a little camcorder.
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