Addy was the resident VJ at Roxy before the lockdown. “For that you need to love music and understand the beats and mood,” he says.
For Addy, a VJ’s job is to create the right mood and ambience through visuals to keep the crowd entertained. iPads and cameras can also be linked to VJ software for better interpretation.įive years in the industry, VJ Addy prefers doing visuals for club events rather than weddings.
YouTube has always been a great pocket-friendly tutor but besides the basics, Ritesh also uses Photoshop, Adobe Premier Pro and Shutterstock to alter his content which he stores on a hard disk. “You can start creating layers, visuals and get suggestions,” he says.
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Beginners can also search for DocOptic on YouTube which has 20 episodes on how to VJ. To start VJing, Calcutta’s Ritesh Jayswal recommends a good laptop with Resolume or ArKaos GrandVJ. Along with this regular videos are also used. They also use the method of LED mapping on an LED stage to build shapes and sizes to execute ideas and manipulate perspectives. Under VJing, many artistes use 3D mapping which helps the artiste project a 2D or 3D figure onto a surface. It could be a loop of a visual, a random freestyle or mash-up of content. “First people needed music, then they built a stage, then backdrops and lights were involved and eventually a VJ was needed,” says Philip Gordon, renowned visual jockey from Calcutta.īut what is visual jockeying? It is the visual interpretation and representation of something that goes with the flow of music or sound. The demand for video jockeys grew over time. The term VJ had started gaining popularity as it became associated with video jockeys who worked with music channels like MTV and VH1.
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