Janice Misurell-Mitchell – Scat & Rap at Green Mill

We always enjoy working with musician and sound-poet Janice Misurell-Mitchell. This performance was at the Green Mill and was produced primarily for archival and performance evaluation purposes.

This is an example of a LIVE performance video production which means that we have very little control over our location, minimal control over sound and virtually no control over lighting.

In this case, we used additional b-roll iPhone video provided by Janice’s husband to give us another angle option then used post-production digital zoom to vary the shot a little more and to emphasize certain phrases. The drawback with digital zoom is that it increases the graininess particularly in these low light conditions but as this is a kind of artsy atmosphere it just adds to the natural “funkiness” of the production.

As usual this was a fun collaboration with an innovative performer.