The host introduces another act.
Gabriel Cyr our mixer/boom op and David George Ellis worked the Steadicam. Together, they worked the crowd and interviews
Our clients came to us with a new idea: rap battles on mobile video. They wanted to shoot MCs battling each other, then give let mobile phone viewers the opportunity to vote for who advances on to the next round. The project was called “The Rap Game.â€
We worked with them through preproduction and provided the shooting crew. We had five cameras, three on stick, one handheld and one Steadicam. Our crew lit the whole club. While the performances happened on the stage, we were also shooting the audience, wanting them to be as much a part of the
Utility Kara Haas slates for the multiple cameras.
It was a fun experience for everybody and it went smoothly thanks to our awesome crew, which included DP Daniel McKeown, camera ops Matthew Kulvicki, Andreas Wagner, and Liz Rubin, steadicam op David George Ellis, audio supervisor Diana Milani, audio tech Gabriel
Matthew Kulvicki is one of our regular camera ops and has been a DP on other multicamera projects
Cyr, utility Kara Haas and PAs Tory Clark and Mike Misslin.
The Rap Game was the first large shoot after I started working at dvDepot. It was great to go into the field and see our crew in action. It helped me to understand the ways they worked and in what situations they worked best. And nothing is more thrilling than taking on a challenge and succeeding.
You can see more pictures from the shoot at our flickr page
Our DP, Daniel McKeown, shot all of the handheld footage. Here, he shoots the DJ.
