Dash Berlin Interview

Last week I was given the opportunity to film an interview with DJ Jeffrey Sutorius, the front man of the DJ/production group Dash Berlin. They are based from the Netherlands and have had many breakthrough and award-winning songs on the trance charts. Jeffrey was in town to headline an event at Marquee Nightclub, and he was nice to enough to come into the 98.5 KLUC studio to give a few lucky fans an exclusive one-hour interview where they were able to ask him questions too. I used four DSLR cameras for the interview, three on tripods and one hand-held. One of the camera was a medium shot on the interviewee DJ CO-1, the second was a medium shot on Jeffrey, the third was a wide 2-shot, and the fourth one was hand-held to give the interview a different feeling than just static shots. The studio already had some good lighting, however we setup two LED panels to brighten it up a little more. We recorded the audio of DJ CO-1 and Jeffrey directly into a computer using Adobe Audition from a Shure SM-58LC microphone. Audio came out excellent, except for when some of the fans asked questions because we did not have a wireless microphone to mic them. This was my first time shooting an interview that was almost like a press conference, so it was a good learning experience with maneuvering through the crowd and putting the cameras in the right position to not have them in the way of the fans. I also had to use zoom lenses on all the cameras since there was some distance from me to the subjects. Jeffrey is a humble and talented character, even at the end of the interview he took pictures with all the fans, signed autographs, and gave away free tickets to the few lucky fans who got to be there.