How to record a band video in lockdown

[PaulWarning]

the band have been asked to provide a 20 minute recording ( or even doing it live) of a few of our songs while in lockdown, the extent of my knowledge is this field is a 3 way whatsapp conversation.

Any pearls of wisdom anybody?

[kevham]

Only realistic way to do this is for one member to record a 'master' video which the other members can then play along with.

The individual videos can then be merged together in post-production.

That's how all these 'lockdown jam' videos have been done.

[wateroftyne]

Here's one I put together last week from phone footage. The track already existed, of course.

 

[PaulWarning]

22 minutes ago, wateroftyne said:

Here's one I put together last week from phone footage. The track already existed, of course.

 

so were miming?

[wateroftyne]

29 minutes ago, PaulWarning said:

so were miming?

Yup.

[TheRev]

We've been re-recording some of our parody songs with Lockdown relevant lyrics.

Drummer has been recording the drum part to a click track. That's then emailed to me and the guitarist and we record our parts. Those get emailed back to the drummer who does a rough mix which then goes to the singer for the vocal.  Everyone videos themselves as they record their respective parts.

While the drummer works on a final mix, the rest of us record little bits of video that can be edited together with the 'studio' footage.  

Everything is done in five separate locations (four band members plus the guy who did all the video editing) using smartphones, portastudios or laptops/DAW.