more music vids!

I spent this last saturday working for a local record company producing music videos for bands in our university studios.

The idea is that the band pay a set amount (as cheap as possible) and then its film, edited live and handed to the band on the day or asap.

I set the lights up again. Most of what was broken the following weekend did not appear to be fixed so it was a bit of a struggle again. 

Once lighting was done I got to play on the big cameras with some industry proffesionals. I learnt a huge amount from

the guys, mostly the smaller habitual things like locking off cameras correctly and which shots to go for.

I was suprised at how much I understood, a friend of mine had come down to work alongside the sound team and felt that the camera people were talking a foreign lanuage. Luckily I've picked up a lot of the lingo from the training I did before uni. So when i was asked to bash a cable I was straight on it!

I found the camera work itself a huge amount of fun. So far I've dealt with camera work that is going into postproduction. This task felt closer

 to live work as we had to get each take spot on and get through it all as quick as possible. I was fairly unsire of myself to begin with but throughout the day gained more confidence.

I hope to get involved in the next one.

For my module at university looking at all other work done outside of uni, I had some photos taken of me working. I havent got most of the official ones yet, but heres a shot from my camera before the battery died.

I Aint Drunk

Last Sunday I worked with some 3rd year students who were producing a video for their song 'I Aint Drunk'. I was asked to do lighting and I also took my sound guy James along with me. 

The set up was the day before which was too late for us to be able to solve any technical issues that may arise, and they did. The back half of the studio lights w

ould not work so I had to make do with what I had.

The band had requested a high contrast black and white video so the lighting would have been fairly simple, however all i had were backlights and key and fills could only come in from the sides with the exception of 2 lights. We managed though, a couple of shots I feel didnt work as well as I hoped but overall it came out quite well.

The organisation of the event as a whole was not so great. The director had gone completely awol and the poor floor manager was left to take his place with a few scribbled words to use as a storyboard and some pushy artists. James and I stood up and helped out, James stayed downstairs placing people where we tol

d him, I coached our new director and worked on the quality of the shots with him. 

It was all very exhilirating and lots of fun despite the high stress levels.

Its given me a lot of confidence ready for a series of video shoots this Saturday with a local record company. 

here are some photos of the shoot.