by DMitri » Tue Mar 02, 2010 7:37 pm
You're never going to get the video you want without a crew of cameras, preferably a mix of fixed, free roaming, AND embedded with players.
It's generally okay to walk up to people in a fire fight and hold a camera up to them, when they are being sneaky bastards like tool, they tend to complain about it, though, so you end up with 8 minutes of replicas firing or people looking from cover.
I did take my vest off and embed with APST for a little while in this one, that's why you see a lot of APST footage. I figured they wouldn't mind and if they did, I wouldn't of cared. But in hindsight I wouldn't do that again with Matt's gear as I was already paranoid and thinking about the things I'd have to sell if something happened while doing it.
In short, you're not going to get the production quality you want from two admins/cameramen with borrowed equipment.
One thing I think should be done is having all the radio channels recorded and edited into the videos in the future, assuming there's viable information for the viewer.