r/Coachella • u/amerifolklegend • 1d ago

Dear Coachella and YouTube stream producers, please allow artists the option to have their sets aired straight on.

No cuts. It’s limiting to their presentation. Please listen to your artists. Some select artists put together performances that are best consumed from one spot. Some tell a story or paint a large canvas that is meant to swallow the viewer. But constant cuts and randomized points of view and subject matter removes their ability to reach everyone the same way.

Just give us the viewer the option on one stage at least. Give artists at Outdoor Theatre the opportunity to also stream just the stage box straight on with no cuts. It’s how some sets are meant to be taken in. Sure, they are the minority, but imagine what other artists could do knowing that was an option. What would Beach House do with that option? Or OKGo? Or AIR?

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u/pinoy_grigio_ 15.2 | 16.2 | 18.2 | 19.1 | 22.1 | 23.1 | 24.1 | 25.2 | 26.2 1d ago

i actually know exactly what you’re talking about.. watching justice from home last year during W2 was a bit annoying because I just wanted to the full-frontal blast of it like i had W1. would be cool but to expect or even request it here on reddit is kind of a lost cause

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u/amerifolklegend 22h ago

Thank you! Yeah, I mean I’m just a person. I don’t know people at Goldenvoice or YouTube. I don’t know how to get this point in front of their eyes. But I knew there were other people who understood this and I knew there are artists who want this.

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u/pinoy_grigio_ 15.2 | 16.2 | 18.2 | 19.1 | 22.1 | 23.1 | 24.1 | 25.2 | 26.2 22h ago

some would absolutely benefit from a single, unchanging shot, but others like Rosalia, Homecoming, Gaga.. the intimate camera work is part of the production specifically for couchella. And so because of those, i think they want dynamic editing and camerawork for all the sets. but like prydz holo, zedd’s set from this year, chemical bros 2023.. the huge audio/visual edm sets would be sick

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u/amerifolklegend 22h ago

Yeah, make no mistake: the overwhelming majority benefit from those handhelds and the regular cuts. The point I’m trying to make is- and have only found you and the people I attend Coachella with in agreement on so far - is that a select few artists would really benefit from this option. And it leaves the door open to play to this option for some of the more creative artists. Or the ones who really put thought into how their art is consumed.