{"id":10660,"date":"2026-04-28T17:37:25","date_gmt":"2026-04-28T17:37:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/?p=10660"},"modified":"2026-04-28T17:37:25","modified_gmt":"2026-04-28T17:37:25","slug":"podcast-video-the-vampires-of-drakelow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/?p=10660","title":{"rendered":"Podcast Video: The Vampires of Drakelow"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In my role as a photography volunteer, I have recently completed a podcast video for Staffordshire Wildlife Trust. This comes under their National Lottery funded project &#8216;Trent Valley Past and Present&#8217;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This was quite a learning exercise for all of us. For me the challenges were: how to light for 3 cameras with only basic, budget equipment and then how to edit it all together including syncing the audio using 3 video streams. I am reasonably satisfied with the result.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is the final video:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The Vampires of Drakelow\" width=\"840\" height=\"473\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/uLhrJoZpMYA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I am actually looking forward to working on the next podcast having learned a lot from this one&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The following photos show the setup. Lighting was from a couple of small budget LED panels with white translucent umbrellas (a set of 2 with lighting stands, second hand for \u00a320!). The cameras were all Fuji (more by accident than design): An older X-T3 bought refurbished, an X-T20 bought new at second hand price (old stock), and an X-M5 bought new to replace a failing compact camera &#8211; this was the main device for recording sound. The microphones were a dual pair bought for around \u00a320 or \u00a330. Not an expensive setup:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" src=\"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/FP6_20251104_163725955j1-600x338.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-10664\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/FP6_20251104_163725955j1-600x338.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/FP6_20251104_163725955j1-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/FP6_20251104_163725955j1-150x84.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/FP6_20251104_163725955j1-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/FP6_20251104_163725955j1-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/FP6_20251104_163725955j1-1200x675.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/FP6_20251104_163725955j1.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">The 3 cameras and 2 lighting stands with translucent umbrellas<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" src=\"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/FP6_20251104_163801476j1-600x338.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-10665\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/FP6_20251104_163801476j1-600x338.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/FP6_20251104_163801476j1-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/FP6_20251104_163801476j1-150x84.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/FP6_20251104_163801476j1-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/FP6_20251104_163801476j1-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/FP6_20251104_163801476j1-1200x675.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/FP6_20251104_163801476j1.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">View of the arrangement from behind the central camera<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Not sophisticated but it worked well enough&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In my role as a photography volunteer, I have recently completed a podcast video for Staffordshire Wildlife Trust. This comes under their National Lottery funded project &#8216;Trent Valley Past and Present&#8217;. This was quite a learning exercise for all of us. For me the challenges were: how to light for 3 cameras with only basic, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/?p=10660\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Podcast Video: The Vampires of Drakelow&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64,3,140,82,135],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10660","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lighting","category-photography","category-staffordshire-wildlife-trust","category-video","category-volunteering"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10660","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10660"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10660\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10687,"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10660\/revisions\/10687"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}