School Concert Videos

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What do schools do these days for school concert videos? In the old days (pre smart phones), parents often weren't allowed to take videos for safeguarding reasons, and the school would have an 'official' video, often shot by a volunteer parent and released on DVD (for a small cost, to pay for the DVD burning and to raise funds for the school). I've done this myself in the past for my niece and nephew's primary (in the noughties), so I find it mindbogglingly awful when I go to my daughter's school shows - two hundred parents vying to hold their smartphones high enough to get the same dismal, shaky video, while blocking the view of those behind them! Perhaps this is because parent consent makes an official video (released on a private, school YouTube channel, say) unfeasable - but I'd argue that having 200 parent-shot videos in the wild makes a nonsense of this as far as safeguarding goes.

What do your schools do? Is there an alternative, or is this just how it is now in the age of smartphones?

We were allowed to record but strictly not to be shared on social media. Only photos of you own child could be posted.

We were told just to film or take photos for ourselves and not to put on social media. However someone I know definitely did!

Same here at our school, but it's not policed (nor should it be), so plenty of videos are shared by parents on WhatsApp for the parents who couldn't make it, and these can then be downloaded and shared anywhere. I don't see how that is different from an official video on a private channel in terms of safety and consent, except that it means the school itself has some sort of legal deniability ("We had nothing to do with the filming"). Of course, providing a decent quality school video doesn't mean that a great many parents won't still want their own wobbly smartphone video, so a school video might not solve that problem.