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Ezekiel 33 events provide a wonderful marketing platform for local schools and up and coming groups and artists. Whilst we are happy to give artists and groups a shot performing in front of large grassroots crowds - we do HOWEVER have RULES!
OUR RULES ARE NON-NEGOTIABLE!
Our event site is always - "SMOKE FREE - ALCOHOL FREE & DRUG FREE".
Our stages are a CLEAN AND GREEN easy listening Machine" promoting "Positive Choices & Healthy Lifestyles!
Our events are "family focused" and draw thousands of very young impressionable onlookers to our stages. Hence, we do not allow music that promote - heavy rock, sex, gangster music, gang colours, turf wars or drugs!
Artists/Groups when choosing your song brackets - please be respectful of the audiences on the receiving end of these song choices! Understand we are a FAMILY EVENT!
A big thanks also to the many youth groups who have purposefully cleaned up their song choices for our events. We appreciate your commitment to our communities! We invite Artists and Groups to apply! Join us!
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Help Performers gain a Web Presence and Promotion Material
Our website is getting at least 20 independant visits per day (and many thousands of hits) and the number has been increasing to as much as 60 visits per day.
The Ezekiel 33 Trust has much on its plate, but may be able to help performers and groups to get more widely known across the internet. There are several ways this might be done;
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Make sure you have an email address, even if it is a freeone like from
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Let us know if you have your own webspace and we can make a link from our website to your website and content. (And please feel free to link to our website and content.)
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Ezekiel 33 Trust can set up a page on the ezekiel 33 Trust website where we will present your information (who you are, what you do, how you can be contacted, some photos, and maybe some video)
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The Ezekiel 33 Trust may be collecting video of the performances, and clips from these videos could be made available for demo disks, and viewable from websites like YouTube.
If you want help with building a web presence then please sending an email to the Ezekiel 33 Trust Webmaster at
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Quick Notice to Performers
Ezekiel 33 Trust has managed to get some video to cover its events.
The Kapa Haka and Pasifika groups are encouraged to let us know of any their choreographed moves that would make great looking video.
We do not want to bore you with the technical aspects.
But any information will be a help, and save the camera person guessing "on the fly" where to be for the best angles.
You can help by Any one of these ways ;
a) a brief description of main move, and when it happens.
b) a list of moves in the order they happen in
c) a sketch of the moves. This could also be done in MS Paint and emailed as an attachment.
d) maybe call the moves to the camera person, using a walky talky on the day.
e) toss the camera person some notes on the day.
f) if your team or parents will be taking some video, then you might like to consider sharing the raw material or selected clips with the Ezekiel 33 Trust.
None of this is necessary, so do not worry at all, about any of it, if you can not.
But ...
Any of this would be helpful, to show you at your best on video.
So if you have a little bit of time, just a little bit of information could make quite a difference.
We look forward to seeing you on the day and having a great fun time.
Haere mai.
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Tips for Taking good video
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Note the direction where the sun or light will be coming from, and try not to position yourself so that you have to point the camera towards the sun. Also notice the shaddow side of what you are videoing, and try to set up the shooting so that you do not get a big difference between the sunny side and shade side. Both these precautions will help avoid problems with light adjustments, especially if automatic light settings are used.
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Consider using, or borrowing a tripod. A tripod is very useful for keeping the camera steady, especially when zooming in close on the subject.
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When holding the camera, and zooming in, you can hold the camera more steady if you can support your elbows by bringing them into your chest, or resting your elbows on a rail or pole.
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Preparing the camera before use in the field. (a) Check the batteries are fully charged before taking them out. Batteries last longer if they are run down, before they are stored for any length of time without use. (It is good to have a spare battery). (b) Check the heads are clean. Use a head cleaning tape that is recommended for your camera. Some cameras (and video cassette players) can be damaged by using wet cleaning tapes, so read your manual or consult the manufacturer or supplier. (c) Check that the lense is clean. Do not rub with a dirty cloth, and preferably use a recommended lense cleaning cloth. (d) Check that the tapes that you think are blank, are actually blank, and do not have the only copy of last years treasured christmas video, or cousin James's wedding.
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Be careful not to put your finger over the microphone, or automatic focus device at the front of the camera.
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Useful settings to use for sunny outdoors action event ; (a) automatic setting for "sport" will catch fast action in detail. (b) think about maybe using manual focus, if there is a chance of people walking infront of the camera, at a distance much closer than the subject you are aiming at. (c) In difficult lighting conditions, where the picture may be going white or dark when using automatic settings, maybe try using manual light settings.
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It is natural to aim the camera at peoples faces. This means that the top half of the picture is only of the sky, and the feet are well out of the picture. More action and subject will then be caught in the picture, by locating the faces near the top of the frame. Allow space above their heads just incase the performers raise their hands.
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Practice holding the camera steady, so the people will be straight up and down in the picture. Otherwise the video might look like they are on a ship rolling side to side. Some cameras have an option to show a horizontal line, to help aim the camera well.
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A jittery picture caused by a wobbly camera, can be made not so bad, by zooming out from the subject.
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Some cameras have options for controlling the zoom speed, these may be handy if you want to make slow zoom scenes, or need fine control over the zoom feature.
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If your camera has a firewire connection, then you may find that using this connection will give better results, than an audio video connector, or USB, when downloading from your camera to your computer. Firewire is also known as IEEE1394, or iLink(on Sony cameras). A firwire connection cable will cost roughly $15. Some portable laptops have a firewire connection already built in.
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Good macro lense performance comes in very handy for closups, where you are not able to get away from the subject in order to get most of the subject in the picture. The macro function also tends to give the viewer the sense of being right amongst the action.
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When doing pans over large angles of rotation, a smoother turn is able to be achieved by holding the camera in the same position relative to your chest, while rotating your whole upper body about your hips, and at each quarter turn, rotate about your feet. Trying to rotate the camera by using your arm will results in tilts and dips due to the combined rotations of wrist, elbow and shoulder. A few practice runs will help you find the amount of difference this can make to the results, and also help you improve your own particular method (amount of hip rotation before moving your feet, how to rotate your feet, etc)
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Adjust the camera strap, so that the camera will sit in your hand in as comfortable position as can be. Many cameras tend to force the palm to be bent backwards almost horizontally, and the extreme bend on the wrist can cause pain (if not repetitive strain injury) when used over prolonged hours of the day. You will probably find that the more you can get the hold adjusted so that your palm is straight up and down, then the more comfortable you will be. Comfort also improves control, and steadiness, aswell as endurance.
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On a sunny day, you might like to increase the brightness of your LCD or view finder (this is not the same as adjusting the brightness of the recorded picture).
Video Handling Tips from YouTube
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