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Plugged In and Turned On In Paradise is a team effort. And what a great team! It's time you heard from them. I've asked Brian Peterson, our PITOIP Video Director, to give us his angle on shooting Season 1. Take it away, Brian: What an incredible journey to see this show grow from both an esthetic and technical angle.
Our first test shoot had just one mid-range video camera and a couple DSLRs, and I think we even had a GoPro in there somewhere. Since we were trying to figure out just how the show would both be shot, we didn’t engage a large crew. So It was mostly myself and a few buddies, one of whom, Michael Agliolo, is a seasoned commercial still-photographer. He ran handheld video. Mike works real magic behind a still camera, but it was pretty funny when on the first day of the shoot I caught him holding the camera in the vertical position. The look on his face when I reminded him this is video was priceless. We now have a solid crew of 5-7 professionals who are working beautifully together shooting our events, getting interviews and behind the scenes footage, providing overall excellent HD video coverage at our PITOIP shows. We now regularly use high-end video cameras, covering just about every angle during our live shoots. I usually run-and-gun with a Sony FS7 on a full-size Steadicam rig, covering mostly the stage-level angles. We have another FS7 being run by an experienced shooter who’s getting mostly the low front angles. Several other professional shooters are on tripods stationed in and around the performers, getting every angle and closeup possible. My 14-foot jib with a remote head captures both medium and wide shots. With each passing show we've learned how to get the most out of our setups to make the best use of the featured performer’s limited time. Now that the first season of “Plugged in and Turned on in Paradise” is in the can, our production team is running at peak performance and we can’t wait to start season two! Brian Peterson PITOIP Video Director
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Here, after 65 years of life experience, I’ve managed to live some of my wildest childhood dreams...
I grew up in a small college town in Northern California with music on my mind. Playing rock-&-roll in some of the popular local bands, and having felt even then, that I was living the life... With great friends, and musicians to play our favorite songs together, we often played every day, performing for crowds two or three times a week from my early teens through my early 20’s. I often say I can count on two hands those weekend nights we were not playing a gig during that decade. Now after a different kind of lifetime, immersed in small business ventures and back home in the Northern California Sierra foothills, I’ve kept on pursuing my love of music. Playing my guitar when I’ve found some likeminded musical friends along the way. Today, after several years producing our new TV series, Plugged In and Turned On in Paradise, I’m grateful to be surrounded with so many uber-talented friends whom I’ve been able to play music with. Some of them were my idols as a young player. I’ve been onstage with Sir Paul McCartney’s friend and lead guitar player Laurence Juber. I’ve played with members of the Doobie Brothers, Santana, Tower of Power, Cold Blood, Iron Butterfly, The Animals, Journey, Miles Davis, and Motown session players, some of the best musicians on the planet... I really must be dreaming...! |
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