I truly am invisible.
I was recently part of a volunteer band where a video was being made. The first problem is that I play bass and non-musicians ignore this instrument. I'm only half joking.
The strangest thing, though, was that they did six pass-throughs with three camera people each time moving around the band and getting close-ups and medium shots of the singers and band members. There were plenty of times where I watched a camera operator get right up into the drummers kit or park in front of the guitarist but, you guessed it, there was not a single time when any of the camera operators even pointed their camera at me, let alone came over for a shot like they were taking of the other musicians. Three people whose literal job it is to capture images of the moment completely ignored me not once but six different times, like I absolutely didn't exist! I wasn't hiding or hiding behind anyone, just standing there playing my instrument like everyone else.
Normally I kind of laugh off my ability to be unseen but I’m having a difficult time shaking this one off.
1/15/2024 Update: It lasted a couple of days and now I'm over it. The video was released today and it actually made me laugh. Do you know the part in Monster's Inc where the two main characters (I don't remember their names) watch a TV commercial and every time the green guy is about to get some camera time he gets blocked by something? That's exactly how the video was. It was amazing! Multiple times I would be behind someone and the camera would be moving and just when I would emerge from behind a singer they would cut to a different view. Or the light was such that you could see my body but my entire head was in total darkness. It was crazy funny! But at least I was turned up in the mix and you could (gasp) hear the bass! Most of the time it was louder than even the keys and the drums... a very unusual (and not very good) mix.
