The Essential TV Director's Handbook

11

Performance

 

Sooner or later every director will be faced with music in one form or other. Most of the examples so far described involve music being used in the service of non-music programmes. Music direction reaches its most challenging when a musical performance is itself the subject. Pop, jazz, orchestral, opera, ballet, chamber or folk, the genres are irrelevant. The problems are the same. The main difference is the scale of the performance. There will be a lot more to shooting a complete performance of Stravinsky's ‘Rite of Spring’ or a full-blown rock concert in a stadium than a

Figure 11.1

vocalist with keyboard accompaniment or ...