PRO HD
Music Muster ProHD in the Forbidden City
The Gympie National Music Muster Searching for a versatile
is a festival set within a tranquil lighting solution for his new
Australian state forest. This year’s JVC GY-HM100 tapeless
six-day event featured 16 stages, HD camcorder, Wim Goddyn,
which played host to musicians a filmmaker from Netherlands-
performing the best in country, based Millennium Media, put a
blues, folk and rock music. Parked Rotolight ‘Stealth’ RL48 ring-light
behind the main stage in their through its paces whilst filming
OB van were Brisbane-based on a journey through China.
production specialists, M3 Media,
The Rotolight, supplied by Planet
who captured the sights and
Video, features 48 super-bright LEDs,
sounds of the live concerts
arranged in two rings, with a universal
using JVC ProHD camcorders.
38mm mounting hole that allows it to be
installed onto the GY-HM100’s shotgun
using a calibration chart, and the GY-
microphone over the foam windshield.
HM100 captured everything with ease.
“The first trials were on the overland
The combination of camera and light
Chinese hard sleeper night train to
worked especially well with interviews,
Beijing, filming in very dim lighting
exposing the face perfectly without the
conditions,” Wim explains. “The Rotolight
‘pointlight’ effect that you normally get
fitted perfectly over the GY-HM100’s
with a halogen lamp. No big light and
microphone and still kept the weight
no heavy batteries any more - great!”
of my rig really low, which was one of
“The combination of camera
my main requirements. The light also
M3 Media’s Marty Hankins described the
and light worked especially well with
provided a nice level of background light
event and his company’s involvement. interviews, exposing the face perfectly”
to reduce picture noise at low levels.”
“The van video output fed large projection
screens, various back stage plasma screens
Wim’s company also specialises in
The highlight of Wim’s trip was filming in
and corporate boxes. Different recording
shooting medical training videos; the
The Forbidden City, the former Imperial
formats were also distributed to multiple
GY-HM100 and Rotolight was recently
Palace built during the Ming Dynasty.
media outlets – at times we had numerous
used in an operating theatre during an
This complex of almost a thousand
open heart surgery operation. “During
formats recording simultaneously – and we
wooden buildings presented some very
the operation, the theatre light was turned
also provided broadcaster WIN QLD with
challenging lighting environments. “The
off for a little while, due to the danger
programme content, which they packaged
Rotolight effectively has 48 lightsources,
of over-heating the heart valve, but with
into a programme to air later in the year.”
which provided a shadowless wide
the camera and Rotolight, I could still
Hankins added, “This year, we used a
diffusion with a long throw that was
capture beautiful HD video images and
combination of two JVC ProHD GY-HD251
perfect for illuminating wide-screen there was no threat to the patient,” Wim
and two JVC GY-HD101 cameras with
subjects,” Wim states. “I found it easy to comments. “I am constantly discovering
great success. The JVCs are built with a
match ambient light colour temperatures new applications for the system.”
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1/3" sensor and responded amazingly well
under challenging lighting conditions. We
really did get some incredible footage.
I love the way the JVC GY-HD251E
produces its black levels – the depth of the
blacks tend to accentuate the saturation in
the colours. This is really important in a live
situation where the audience can compare
what they see on stage to what is captured
and projected on the screens. Another big
plus is the cameras’ battery efficiency. We
were ‘on air’ from 4.00pm until 10.30pm and
they easily made it through on two V-Lock
batteries. In addition to the great cameras
we had an excellent crew and everyone
was delighted with the results.”
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