Anyone used a camera and monitor ?

[rtgentry]

Hi there I have a puppet show on Saturday and next friday. I have a small hidden wireless camera that I have been wanting to use for my puppet stage. I have a portable dvd player and was thinking about hanging that up infront of me in the puppet stage. The only thing is I would have to attach the camera to the puppet so that I see what the puppet sees. Has anyone tried anything like this before and would like to offer any advice.

 

[Whatever]

http://forum.muppetcentral.com/showthread.php?t=22127&highlight=monitor

 

[Buck-Beaver]

Would it not make more sense to use the camera to show you the puppet and what the audience sees? It doesn't really matter what the puppet sees, unless you want to be able to see the audience in which case you could just conceal the camera somewhere on stage.

 

[Phantom]

I've done something similar to this as part of a ministry fair. The camera was set under a table near the stage and we yelled at people as they went by. We interacted and joked around with folks. It was a cool way to see who we were talking to.

It also let us know which direction to focus the puppets attention (i.e. I'm speaking directly to you.)

I've used a monitor in the traditional sense to. Great way to refine skills.

 

[wes]

When I have use a camera and Monitor I have to different setups that I have used, one is to have a camers set up so you can see the audience and how the puppets interacting with them you take the camera run the The video (your camera should come with adaptor) to the monitor (or a tv with video input) with a long rca cord you can get from radio shack.....TADA!!..you should be able to see yourself,
another way is you can by a cordless leapfrog system (from radio Shack)that transmit video cingal through satalite's (sounds complicated, but not) you get a transmiter and reciver hook the camera up to the transmiter(sender) and the tv to the Reciver, aline the satallites and Bobs your Uncle, you should see your self, the puppet or the audience.

 

[wes]

sorry posted by mistake

 

[Vic Romano]

I had an old television that was being thrown out from a vetrinarian hospital that we recovered and used as a puppet monitor. We ran cable taped down so no one would trip that connected to a video camera up to 50 feet away that could zoom very close.

One time we had two monitors that allowed us to see what the audience sees as well as what the "puppet would see" by rigging a camera at the top of the stage, otherwise our protable stage has a one way type fabric piece that we can see out of but no one else can see through.

 

[rtgentry]

I am now thinking a angeled view showing both would be best. I just want to be able to look the right way at kids and people near by. I will not have a sit down audience. They will be walking by and moving around. THanks

 

[wes]

We had only one camera, so we hooked it up so we could see the audience and the puppet It worked well! Much better performance when you can see what your doing,