#takingovereurope

"Taking Over Europe" with We Came As Romans on the Vans Warped Euro tour with Parkway Drive, Memphis May Fire and Like Moths To Flames.

Timelapse somewhere in Paris with the 85mm f/1.4 Wallimex.

The dates I filmed were only about half of the tour… Düsseldorf, Antwerp, Paris, London, Montepellier, Bordeaux, Madrid and Milan. An interesting and challenging experience to capture several episodes in that short time frame.  The difficulties were mainly on the workflow side of things: Filming the entire day and editing in the tour bus at night - not a problem. But uploading tour episodes from the road turned out to be more difficult than I thought. Some venues have so bad wifi.

GoPro ducktape-mounting for overnight driving timelapse. The band WCAR are great and genuine people and I was more than lucky to work with them - a lot of sightseeing and interesting conversations, intense shows and great food.  The daily routine was 1) find wifi, upload the episode from the day before 2) filming some stuff, backing up data 3) filming some more sightseeing with the guys 4) doing interviews with the band members 5) filming the show, backing up data 6) Filming after the show 7) editing another episode at the tour bus as soon as we started driving.

The most important thing when doing tour episodes in my opinion is ALWAYS being ready for capturing interesting things and ALWAYS being around. Don’t miss the moment. There is not free time. Another important thing to keep in mind is to already piece together the episode in your head when filming - you don’t want to throw together random footage but tell a story. So think who are your protagonists and what there story is. A lot of stuff you can learn in regular screenwriting and drama can be used to some degree for music videos and documentaries as well.

Equipment // I used my typical setup for this. Sony FS700 and a couple prime and zoom lenses, my old Rebel T2i/550d for pictures and my glide cam and tripod on a daily basis. Editing was all done within Adobe Premiere CC (and a little bit of Speedgrade CC and After Effects CC).