| Our community band sometimes gets taped by the local cable company for rebroadcast later... especially during our annual Christmas concert (the tape is aired as "filler" over the Christmas holidays). A camera really isn't a distraction... the "glass eye" is really no worse than knowing that an audience member is watching you... possibly with field glasses! You'll probably find that your face is in your music and your ears are on the group and when that happens, the camera "goes away".
Of course, if they stick the lense of the camera "up your nose" it's a different matter but normally the zoom handles closeups and they don't want to get too close anyway since their mic is (usually) camera-mounted and they don't want to get it's input overloaded. Just treat it as "another one of those things".
Polish the horns up as bright as they've ever been... it drives the cameraman nuts to have to deal with "flare"! |