Four students in our
Recording Arts Degree (RAD) program were tasked with the job of remote-recording and multi-camera video taping
O Berkley, Where Hart Thou? at the Poway Center for Performing Arts this past weekend. The sold out theater enthusiastically cheered on an all-star line-up of San Diego's best country, folk, rock and bluegrass musicians as they recreated the Grammy Award winning soundtrack to
O Brother, Where Art Thou?. Performed "Grand Ol' Opry style" around a shared microphone, legendary songs such as “Man of Constant Sorrow,” “In the Jailhouse Now,” “Oh Death,” and “I’ll Fly Away” received modern updates from the likes of host Jeff Berkley and Calman Hart (a.k.a.
Berkley Hart),
Steve Poltz,
Gregory Page,
Shawn Rohlf & the 7th Day Buskers,
Dennis Caplinger,
Robin Henkel,
Lisa Sanders,
Jeffrey Joe Morin,
Robin Adler,
Cathryn Beeks, Matt Silva,
Tom Brosseau,
The Lovebirds, and
John C. Reilly and Friends.
TRAC students Colin Tedeschi, Jorge Caballero, Danny Trujillo and Mike DiBernardo brought seven video cameras and a full 24-channel Pro Tools HD system with them to the theater to document the night's performance. Arriving at 2:00 p.m. the day of the show, the audio recording system included our own 40-channel Jensen transformer-isolated mic splitter which gave us independent control of microphone gain for each channel.
Studio West Engineer Henrique Landim provided assistance with the audio setup and recording.
On the video side, we set up five HD cameras around the theater, including one in the balcony, two in the sound booth, one in the house, and one on the stage. We also had a roaming HDV camera backstage and two stationary cameras hidden on the stage. Students placed and operated the cameras guided by editor/shooter and
TRAC ally Kigh Sturdevan. The students who participated in this remote project will be graduating from our
Recording Arts Degree program in about three weeks, each student earning an Occupational Associates Degree in Recording Arts. This hands-on project is part of their requirement to complete the program and we're excited to hear the final mix with the multi-cam edit. Stay tuned for links to a few cuts from this show - we'll post them once they're finished!
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