A Montage of Second Life Concerts

So I searched Second Life live concerts and found a pretty good amount on YouTube. I felt like most I found weren't quite as good as the U2 one we watched in class. However, they each had something I liked or didn't like about it. I decided I would just mention the things I learned from each of them.

First was the 16Down live in concert, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kbiRoupnmmQ. This one someone had taken 16Down's live concert in real life and mixed it with the video of their Second Life performance. In the Second Life concert, what I thought was really neat and pretty smart on their part was they had a recording of the band during a live concert in real life playing in the background of the stage on a huge tv screen. This way, the audience could see what they really look like too. It had some pretty cool establishing shots of the stage too - it looked like they might have worked pretty hard on the stage because it was pretty neat looking. The only problem I really had was that they didn't do much on the stage besides move their bodies to the front and back, so it was a little boring.

The second one i looked at was of Suzanne Vega, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WpGeRgkOUCE. This one had an interview and everything in the beginning which is what I thought was cool. What I wanted to mention in this one was how boring they made the actual concert/ singing part. They never changed the views or really the shots they were taking. This video illustrated to me how important it is to be creative and think of different ways to shoot the concert.

The last one was of Clint Live, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=88yZZBlqlrg. I really liked this one. The performers moved around the stage and really looked like they would be performing in real life. The camera person got a lot of different angles too. However, the movements of the camera were very choppy and all over the place, which kind of distracted me. Also, they obviously weren't taping in Second Life like they should be because you could see the screen around the sides with all the Second Life buttons; for example, all the chatting that was going on in the crowd was popping up on the bottom of the screen and a notecard showed up in the corner of the screen at one point so the camera person had to delete that. It was a good show though. It made me like and want to listen to their music, even though I couldn't hear it clearly - which was an additional problem this video had.