When a tropical DJ needed a promotional video, he called The Motion Factory to make it happen. But how can you capture what a DJ does in a video?

If you just show a video of people dancing, it quickly becomes boring to watch. So we decided to have some short interviews with the people at the party and ask them about the atmosphere, the DJ, etc.

Conducting interviews at a party with very loud music proved to be an interesting challenge, but it was something we could handle adequately.

Sound

How do you record an interview when the music in the background is so loud that you can't even hear what the person next to you is saying? We used a microphone that records very little background noise. So with this microphone we could clearly hear what the people were saying, with very little music in the background. In fact, we mounted another microphone on the camera to record the music and other party noises so we could create a natural sounding audio track afterwards.

The sound of the two microphones was mixed together in a portable mixer and we used closed headphones so we could hear the audio that was being recorded.

So the technical part of recording the audio was easy. The biggest challenge was for the reporter. When she asked a question, the music was so loud that she couldn't hear what the people were saying.

The result