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When's Pearl Jam going to do this shit? I want a fucking camera!!!
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The ever-innovative Beastie Boys has done it again. This time they, have created a musicmentary based on footage, filmed by their own fans.
Back in 2004, the Beastie Boys handed out 50 mini-cameras to audience members at their performance in New York's Madison Square Garden. In order to cover different perspectives, the cameras were handed to fans spread throughout the arena.
AWESOME: I FUCKING SHOT THAT! premiered at this year's Sundance Festival and is due to be released on DVD in July.
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Joined: Tue Nov 30, 2004 4:02 am Posts: 44183 Location: New York Gender: Male
great title. I wonder what the final product looked like?
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I read about this in Rolling Stone a while ago, probably back in 2005. Genius idea that saved thousands of dollars from hiring a professional camera crew.
I don't know if Pearl Jam's version would go down as well.
Beastie Boys shows are animal parties with people in all corners getting down with the sickness. Thus, an audience shot would translate very well for entertainment.
Most of PJs fans are hippies, old people, etc. It would be quite boring.
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Joined: Sun Oct 17, 2004 7:19 pm Posts: 39068 Location: Chapel Hill, NC, USA Gender: Male
stip wrote:
great title. I wonder what the final product looked like?
I'm watching it right now. It's pretty cool. I assume they used a soundboard recording for the audio, but there were a couple of people wandering around in the hallways and one guy trying to get backstage, so they jump to them every once in a while. It's pretty well edited and a couple of scenes with Shadrach-ish special effects.
Someone caught Ben Stiller in the audience singing along. And at one point, they leave the stage and come out in the middle of the crowd.
The angle function on the DVD works so you can flip to a screen that shows all 50 videos at once. It's pretty fucking cool.
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Joined: Tue Nov 23, 2004 6:28 pm Posts: 5361 Location: St. Paul Gender: Male
stip wrote:
great title. I wonder what the final product looked like?
Other than being sort of dizzying at times, it's pretty fucking awesome. I highly recommend it, and I'm not even a big Beastie Boys fan. I bought because it just looked like something really fucking cool to do and I wasn't at all disappointed.
Have you people not seen Touring Band 2000? If you want under-produced, grainy, and amatuer style video clips from a wide sampling of different shows (synched up with soundboard audio) then TB2K has exactly what you are looking for!
Joined: Sun Oct 17, 2004 7:19 pm Posts: 39068 Location: Chapel Hill, NC, USA Gender: Male
drifting away wrote:
Have you people not seen Touring Band 2000? If you want under-produced, grainy, and amatuer style video clips from a wide sampling of different shows (synched up with soundboard audio) then TB2K has exactly what you are looking for!
Yeah, ... not even close to the same concept.
You do end up with a lot more crowd shots than you probably would otherwise, but at the end of AIFST you really feel like you've been to a concert in a way that TB2K and LATG fail to capture.
Also, there is a band commentary, which I didn't watch, but I expect Pearl Jam to do a commentary when they adopt this concept.
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