Are you a performer, journalist, lecturer or sports manager who has a taste for high quality video and audio production? You have come to the right team - the multimedia crew customised to your needs :)
To keep the audience’s eyes interested in your video, we film live events with between 2-to-5 4K & 6K video resolution Panasonic Lumix cameras, using both wide angle and zoom lenses. This allows multi-angle video editing; switching between a combination of full stage scenes, roaming close-ups with a 'gimbal' camera stabilizer, and special audience moments. Combined with Ultra-HD editing tricks and colour treatments, we can present you and your viewers with a far superior scene than a camera-phone in the audience area.
Have you finished your studio recordings and want to add an entertaining promotional video for social media broadcast? Del is well known for real action in both photography and video for the love of capturing the moment without artificial elements. Wayne Cee Smith joined the Liveshots team in 2022 as 'Creative Director', with more of a flair for choreography in dramatised video scenes and techniques.
Contact us now with a description of your ideas and approximate budget, and we will get on the case straight away. If your ideas involve filming in public places, jump to the bottom of this page for notes about the legal red-tape.
Co-videographer & Sound engineer Darek Pietryk has now invested in a drone camera to offer some dramatic outdoor footage to the menu. Discuss your visualisation of the theme and location with Del, Wayne or Darek, then we can cross ideas to achieve your video according to your budget and our joint resources.
The 'Barmy Park' video below was filmed by Del & Wayne in a Southampton factory arranged by the band and given the murky blue & orange colour style to suit the location and music style. It includes short clips from east London and given a broken down look with various damage filters and old-fashion colour themes. These extra footage clips, shot in a different place, is what is known as 'B-Roll'. The purpose is to visually represent the theme of the song and increase the viewer's interest. Adding B-Roll will increase your project cost, depending on where we go and if we hire actors. Consider drama students for low-cost acting.
The basic price for a budget, choreographed single-song Full-HD production is £180 for something simple in a cost-free, and close to Southampton location, like a single person miming to a recording in a Southampton park. This is likely to be filmed by Del alone, using multiple takes (rather than multi cameras) with different activities by you & different camera angles to mix up for variety in the edit.
If you want to start getting creative and dramatic, I can bring in an experienced creative director to plan the choreography script, choose a location suiting the theme of the song, hire in some 'extras' for background acting, and direct the band's activity on camera. More details about those extras below.
• Costs beyond that option could be anything like hiring a venue to re-enact a gig with your fans coming along to act as dancers, mosh pit or crowd-surfing. Productions at 4K resolution are available for an extra 25%.
• Discounts; Multiple songs filmed in a single session once we have set up all our kit would come at a lower price per-song. The amount of discount will be dependant on many factors, so we need to discuss that point.
• DIY Discounts; If you have video editing software and a powerful enough computer, you can take the bare footage off us and do all the post-production yourself. This could be roughly half price, but requires a detailed discussion.
• Recording studio re-enactment with more dramatic behaviour is another popular low-cost theme. The filming would be done after the recording is down, so that you can move around with more showmanship, and the cameras won't put you off your audio recording.
• Higher pricing could come from hiring a special location and any extra actors/dancers, or adding what is known as "B-Roll" which is where short clips are filmed and added to the band footage. B-Roll is generally used to add a visual description of the song's subject and can be filmed at a different time & location(s).
When there is acting involved in a creative video shoot, rather than a natural live event, it is a great benefit to have a director managing the dramatics. Good camerawork involves a lot of concentration, and the director's role is to feed you, and the potential actors, ideas for how to liven up your on-camera behaviour without having to manage the camera/lighting/audio equipment at the same time.
If you have an artistic minded friend with experience in videography, you are welcome to bring them in for the director task. If not, I sub-contract Wayne on request and I have solid faith in his ability to make your ideas a reality.
Del would only take on the multitasking of direction and camera operation if your perceived idea is a very simple one, and you are confident in characteristic acting without going over the top - the balance between dull and foolish.
IMPORTANT; You must understand that this one-man multitasking will not produce the best results and should only be opted for as a drastic money saver. There may not even be that much money saved, as the filming will take longer if I'm repeatedly losing control of the camera to come and suggest changes to your activity.
The complication with public street or park filming is that according to the 'Human Rights Act 1998'; if a stranger's face appears in the frame, we need their consent to involve them in the broadcast edit. That's why you see so many blurred faces in 'reality TV shows' - particularly police activity.
If you want to create a video that seems to have the public in shot, you could use social media to ask your fans or drama students to come and 'act' in place of the public.
SPOILER ALERT! In the award winning 'Bitter Sweet Symphony' video, Richard Ashcroft was not barging his way through the general public - they were all actors!
We can't deny the public access to a public area, so the ways to work around this are the likes of marking an area with a large sign stating "Broadcast Filming In Action, Avoid If You Don't Want To Be Filmed". In a less busy location where distant people won't be in focus, we could just get on with the job and shoot retakes if someone enters the frame clearly.
At a wide open location like Southampton Common, an extra assistant (maybe just a friend of yours) could rush or cycle to approaching strangers and politely ask them to dodge us, but this wouldn't work in a busy high street.