Between Takes with 1413
The two creatives spearheading 1413 Visuals are talking about all things studio life -- work, music, love etc.
Between Takes with 1413
Wait, Why Can't My DJI Drone Record Audio?
Sam shares her journey from drone procrastination to content creation success and introduces his innovative "Stage Ready Sessions" photography concept for musicians.
• Sam overcame her hesitation with drone technology by learning to use his DJI Mini 3 for music content creation
• Using the drone's QuickShot features allowed for immediate professional-looking results even as a beginner
• Sam argues that drones designed for social media should allow for audio integration from external microphones
• Sam and Josh tested the drone in the field, exploring its vertical video capabilities and creative possibilities
• Sam created "Stage Ready Sessions" offering affordable mini photoshoots for musicians who need professional images
• The photography sessions sold out quickly, confirming the market need for accessible, high-quality musician photography
• The studio's programmable lighting allows for customized backdrops and entirely different looks for each client
• Both hosts are exploring creative new projects after catching up with their regular work
Songs of the week: "Break Stuff" by Limp Bizkit (Josh) and "Dreamer" by Wesco (Sam)
Song of the Week Playlist: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/7lDyWnUnAmvuUkf8wj7ilK?si=df11343db17c4df0
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Watch the Episodes: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCNEbTpI9bZA7POvKaNto2RQ
As somebody that used a drone.
Speaker 2:Should we save this? We really should. Okay, time out. All right, I'll bring up the argument when we start.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, all right, between takes with 1413. I'm Josh. That's Sam Sam. What have you been up to lately?
Speaker 2:I had a big day a couple weeks ago. You know one of those days where so many good things are happening to you all at the same time, you're like, oh my gosh, this is the best day of my life. I'm a professional, I'm so successful.
Speaker 1:A lot of validation for you.
Speaker 2:Yeah, this is the best career choice I ever made for myself and even though life has been dry the last couple months, I didn't ruin my life by being an entrepreneur.
Speaker 1:You know that feeling. I didn't ruin my life.
Speaker 2:I'm not a complete failure by doing this. It was a really good day because it really I feel like we're starting to come out of the slow months in the music creation industry. Festival season is approaching, so then, to have this good day, it was a big deal, and one of the things with the good day, I took a drone to content shoot for an artist that I was excited to work with. I bought this drone like on sale at the end of last year and I have not. The most I've done with it since is take the wrapping off and put it inside the case.
Speaker 1:See, you're crazy because I am a soon as I get something. And this is one of the weird things tell me, if you do this, when I get something new my surrounding area that I open it in. I want it clean oh yeah, yeah. And so like I have to, like I do clean that up and then I unbox it and then I use it. Is that a weird thing? Is that something you do too?
Speaker 2:I don't think it's weird necessarily, and I don't do that, but I'm surprised to hear that from you, if that makes surprising Sam. I just feel like you would get tunnel vision on just the item and so you would just literally, before you even got back to the house or like whatever, if it was delivered it was already open parking lot opening up.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that happens sometimes. It depends how urgent I need to use this piece of gear.
Speaker 2:When I ordered this, I got it. I ordered it at a time when, like, a bunch of stuff was on sale and I made multiple work-related purchases. Those are the funnest, yeah, and they were most fun.
Speaker 1:I knew you were going to correct me as soon as I said it.
Speaker 2:And they all came in at the same time and I was super booked and like busy at that time, so it just I didn't have time. I get stressed, too, where I think it would be different if, like I, was confident in my drone use.
Speaker 1:The idea of me having to learn a new skill to even play with the gear made it a bigger event than it needed to be, which made me put it off, it's actually opening a drone and setting it up for the first time is actually a lot, because you have to register it, you have to do yeah, I found all that out, yep, yeah, and pair it and do all this stuff.
Speaker 2:Because I have a couple ideas for music content that I want to do and stuff I've been inspired by that. I know that for me personally, the best way for me to accomplish it would be with the drone, and so that's why I was like, okay, I need to figure out how to use this drone and the procrastinator that I am. Last minute before the shoot, I was like, okay, I need to pull this out of the case, charge the batteries, turn it on so that when I get to the shoot I at least know how to do that. So I did. I got, I turned it all on and then I, you know, took it out into my front yard and like was trying to make at least make sure I knew how to use the knobs and stuff, like bare bare minimum, obviously. Like that worked out, I took it to the shoot.
Speaker 2:I did accomplish a couple very basic cool things, things that I thought was cool, so weren't perfect, but I was like, first time, do anything with it? I'm gonna take this, yeah, but I want to figure out how to get all this stuff smooth. So I brought it here and we took it out and learned all kinds of cool stuff, and so now I'm like, okay, when's the next shoot? Because I have so many things to do with this drone. As far as locally around, like immediately around here, I'm not seeing a lot of people like me do like using a drone or anything really super out of the box for the musicians around here.
Speaker 1:I kind of want to be that person that starts using weird stuff you brought the drone through the studio in like people don't know, the studio is kind of in the big field. So we're like let's go try this thing out, your drones relatively I'll put the footage.
Speaker 2:Oh, please put some of the footage.
Speaker 1:Yes, yes, but the, the drone's relatively new, so it has a lot of the features. Which one is it? Dji mini 3 yeah, gotcha I've used on the bigger drones and stuff in the context that I use drones for is totally different from what you do yeah and and that's what's kind of interesting but a lot, lot of the what is it called quick shots or whatever it was. There's a lot of things.
Speaker 2:I don't like that name. I don't either. Sorry to interrupt you, but when I saw a quick shot on the menu it didn't register as what I was looking for and that's why I never clicked it. I thought it was going to be some sort of like photo feature or something.
Speaker 1:No feature or something? No, yeah, go ahead and but. Um, but we were playing with those because those are like out of the box. If you're learning and you want to get the most bang for your buck immediately, those are actually really useful.
Speaker 1:One of us was standing out in middle field and you got some practice in yeah it's like you just draw a box over what, what you want it to to orbit around. But that was something that I've, I've used. I've used the orbit one before. I'm actually using it right now for a big real estate um, a project I'm doing where I go out twice a month for a um, a big building that's being built and I they want it's like an update so yeah I'll try to it's perfect for that.
Speaker 1:It's it's perfect and what I'm.
Speaker 2:I think honestly, that's basically what it was designed for, more so than what I'm trying to use it for.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and it is kind of cool to see some of the features they're putting in these. And this is new to me because I'll buy whatever the newest drone is, I'll buy it and then, until that drone dies, I don't look at the new tech because I'll immediately want to buy stuff. So I have all the features that you have in yours, but I don't utilize them like how you would. So we went out in this field and we were testing all this stuff and I don't know. It was pretty fun. And something yours does that I can't is that mine doesn't shoot vertical footage.
Speaker 1:It has an option to where it just crops a 4K image in vertically, but yours the camera actually rotates, which is really neat. I thought that was kind of cool.
Speaker 2:Which, okay, perfect. I think it's weird to design a drone that will shoot vertically, because obviously, why else would you design a drone to shoot vertical, unless you're trying to make it more for social media stuff. But I can't hook my mic to it so that there's audio, so that I can talk or line a song up or something like that. No, it's just Dead. No noise.
Speaker 1:I mean that's a kind of special case to use it. But I've done videos where I always just you know if I'm using a mic that records, I just get. I put the drone close enough to them, I get them to clap and I use that as my point to sync what they're doing. I get it.
Speaker 2:I and be clear. I understand why we're not recording audio in the air. Nobody wants to listen to the wind. I'm here, I agree, okay. But if you're going to start making drones that can turn to a vertical footage because you know that's, why else would you make the drone so it can shoot that vertical 9x16?
Speaker 2:okay, also the drone's loud, the audio just be like not if you and I'm not saying you need to make the drone capable of recording audio. I think it should be capable of hooking to a mic and the audio comes through the mic.
Speaker 1:Okay, onto the video but how would it do that when the drone is very far away? It connects to the remote if you're recording to the remote, then it can okay, so even you could argue then okay, the mic hooks to the remote.
Speaker 2:Okay yeah, yeah um, because it would still line up, because you would, it would record all at the same time, because you would hit record on the remote so it would start your audio and your video at the same time. It's super easy to line up so like, okay, I see, I see, I see you, I agree, and then it can go, then it can connect to the remote.
Speaker 1:And then you're. So I had the Phantom 1. Then I had a Phantom 3. And it came with a live streaming capability. That I thought was cool, and, if I remember right, I was testing it out on Facebook. Okay, so I'm flying the drone. And I see a thing on the screen saying stream to Facebook.
Speaker 2:Oh, through the drone, through the drone, yeah.
Speaker 1:I'm like, okay, I got to try this and I did it and I want to say that I feel like it pulled audio from it. Might have been pulling it from my phone.
Speaker 2:The monitor, dji engineers To do the same thing All of them that are watching. Let me do it Because yeah, because, even like, I feel like a large audience for these drones is like travel, especially. Okay, my, we're going to talk about mine. Specific Mine is mini. It's obviously being like marketed towards, like small, for travel and travel, like influences, or even people that just travel and want to make stuff for social media. That's why it's so easy to go vertical. Want to make stuff for social media. That's why it's so easy to go vertical. That's why it's all these quick shots are designed for people and these making videos of yourself in these beautiful shots. Even the tutorials have that right. So I feel like those are the type of people they want to. They're talking in it, or I mean, obviously it's not designed for people to take to music shoots. That's not what they're like marketing for. But I feel like I should be able to hook my DJI mic to my DJI remote.
Speaker 1:You're starting to get kind of crazy eyes over this. You're very passionate about this.
Speaker 2:Yeah, because I was lining up music to a video with no sound by the person's mouth. Let me talk in my mic and it'd be recorded and I don't have to do all this extra work.
Speaker 1:All right, so what else you got?
Speaker 2:going on. I announced this mini style photo shoot. We don't like to call it minis because it's for musicians and basically it's going to be like a day in the studio really quick short slots for a few nice photos. But I feel like musicians. It doesn't usually get catered to musicians very often, but they're always needing a couple new photos for different things, whether it be social media, a new song release, maybe they added a couple members to a band or changed members and they haven't had photos done since the last time. But they don't always have the time or the budget to do a full-scale photo shoot.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I feel like every band photo not every band photo, but a lot of times it's obviously shot at a gig, right after they finished and they look disgusting, or it's before the gig starts and it's somebody's girlfriend. That's like here we don't need a group thing, but this is an opportunity for them to get something really cool and unique. And I don't know, I think it's, I don't know why. It's one of those things that I'm like why didn't I think about this, think of this before you did?
Speaker 2:Yeah, and they'll have like a high-quality image that they can kind of use for advertising or social.
Speaker 2:Like whatever they want and it's at a discounted rate. And then it allows me to work with a bunch of musicians that I haven't worked with before, so I'm getting to like network and and create kind of an experience that represents myself kind of. Also for the studio it's a book to a lot of people who have never been in the studio before, so we get to bring people into the studio and show them the different things you can do here. I just feel like there's like so many benefits to it.
Speaker 2:I got some reassurance because instant response. I booked up almost the whole thing and within the first 12 hours of posting about it To do that, I've got a list of people that are that love the idea but couldn't make this date, so they're hoping for the next one. And then I even like a photographer that I made friends with on social media. She responded and was like this is such a cool idea, I want to do this in my area, and that alone is like reassurance as well, like yes, let's all. Like let's start doing these in the different areas.
Speaker 1:Kind of like the perfect storm of things coming together. The studio is able to be pretty flexible with like different colors and different ideas, and I know like I repeat this all the time. But like people see the big white wall they're like oh, it's just a big white wall. No, it can be anything you want, I think you might have a few props different chairs stools, different background colors, and then match that up with your photography style and skill.
Speaker 2:it's a it's a win-win for, for everybody we literally have infinite color combinations because of the way it's lit up. Um, we can find the perfect color on the wheel and then that's the color of the wall, and I can literally, because it's so easy and fast. I can literally pick the color when they walk through. I look at their outfits and we can decide on a color that goes nicely with the vibe and I think, like that's something that you're not going to see. We're not making one set and having seven musicians come and sit in the one set and all take the same photos. It's going to be so easy to make all of the every every 15 minute session completely different.
Speaker 1:First of all, what was it called? What are you calling this thing? The stage ready sessions yeah, that's so much better than minis band minis.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I didn't want to call it minis, just because, yeah, I just. I don't think the word minis really goes with the vibe. No, it's.
Speaker 1:It's going to be neat. I can't wait to see what you come up with, how it goes.
Speaker 2:Yeah, if we can keep doing it. Yeah Well, it's all going to. It all rides on how this first experience is. What about you? Has anything crazy happened?
Speaker 1:I'm always busy, but I've finally caught. I'm caught up with a lot of stuff so I'm able to try new creative things. Yeah, I mean, you did a photo shoot and that was a lot of fun.
Speaker 2:I thought those images were pretty awesome the last one we did. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I've gotten so many compliments on those. Aw, it's like people didn't realize I could like take a good picture.
Speaker 1:That's one of the most backhanded compliments, understandable.
Speaker 2:But like Okay.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, I mean well like you were.
Speaker 2:They're like those pictures are really good of you, like really good. It's like okay, thank you, but like is it that crazy that the picture turned out good Like jeez? They're like weirdly good, like okay, thank you so much, sam. You look so you actually look pretty. Like actually, you actually look nice in those. It's like thanks so much. Uh, it's been in there the whole time. Yeah, like I wash my hair, I don't like what do you? Want me to like I. This is okay great.
Speaker 1:No but that. But that that's like. That's an example of something I've seen that I want to try. And I want to try all these things because one, there is an art side of me that that does like crave that type of stuff, like trying different um looks and techniques and combining stuff, and now I've got the studio that I can do all the stuff in. Yeah, so that sums up pretty much everything going on in my life. For once it's not too busy and I'm able to try out these ideas that I have in my head. Yeah, song of the week. Song of the week, my song of the week.
Speaker 1:The lyrics are deep oh wow, that's rhymed, it did, did. I feel like every guy will get this pretty emotional, heartfelt song.
Speaker 2:Are you going to say I like big butts, or something? You're going to say something of that nature Spit it out. What's the name of the song?
Speaker 1:Hold on. I wish I switched back to C Flounder. No, it kind of brings a tear to my eye every time I hear it.
Speaker 2:What is it? It does not.
Speaker 1:It's Break Stuff by Limp Bizkit. Oh, I love that song. Do you know the song?
Speaker 2:Love that song, love that song yes, yes. That's getting on our playlist. I love that song Also. That's you, sang the Men.
Speaker 1:No, that song is written for the female rage and I don't care what you say?
Speaker 2:no way. Yes, no, argue in the comments that song was written for the female rage. Yeah, I didn't know if you knew that song I mean you picked, like the most well-known limp biscuit song. People who don't even listen to him probably know that song.
Speaker 1:Yeah, you're, you're not wrong.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:Anyway. So what's your? What's your song of the week, sam?
Speaker 2:Mine is along the same vibe. No, it's not Okay.
Speaker 1:Is it is it off the same album?
Speaker 2:The fish and a hot dog flavored water. No, mine is, mine is dreamer by wesco. Okay, so it's not the same vibe, but like um, but boys would listen to it and get emotional is is that song made for a female rage like nope, it's for the. It's for the upset men, yeah, he. He's put out a whole EP of like his collective recent songs. They're all good, but Dreamer's the one I'm going to add to the playlist. Nice, it's my song of the week.
Speaker 1:Song of the week. That's all folks. That's all folks. See you next time. Bye, I want to listen to break stuff now. I know it's just one of those days you don't want to wake up.