Mickey Gee

So, a friend of mine, Gavin, asked me if I could help him out with filming a gig at the Globe. It was for a memorial gig to remeber local guitarist Micky Gee. I jumped at the opportunity and arranged for plenty of equipment and organised a crew of my own to help out. Clive joined me to do sound and I asked Rhod and Andy (both of whom worked with me on DJ SkillKids videos) and Gavin had all the contacts so I left him to arrange interviews and he requested to do all of the editing. I also arranged to use this as a final project towards University.
So the night was fairly random, Gavin had arranged for some guy named 'Steve' to record sound seperate to us, turned out though he was useless and didnt know how to work his own equipment. Luckily Clive sorted mine out as soon as he realised Steves desk wasnt recording anything. To go with this, Rhod and Andy didnt show up, despite telling me they'd be there. So i did all the filming pretty much on my own. I had two cameras, one static and one for me to roam with and do interviews.
The interviews we did turned out very nice, and the live shots were mostly good although the persone in charge of stage lights kept using a horrible blue light which kept flattening everything. Overall though we got some good footage and Gav took it off to edit. We also met up later n the month to get some more interviews at peoples houses, which looked lovely. Unfortunately, despite arranging deadlines and stressing the fact that I was using this to help with University, Gavin has not done any editing so far, partly due to some personal issues he's dealing with at the moment, but after not meeting the deadlines I have become seriously concerned about his commitment. So I was forced to sit down and edit a taster piece on my own.. I have also sourced footage of Mickey and arranged voice overs with Clive, but there is still a huge amount to do. Theres a disc full of old photos of Mickey that we need to get our hands on, I need to make sure we can get rights on footage acquired and do a full edit of the thing. The idea was to approach local tv stations and to distribute the footage to friends and family of Mickey. We'll see how it goes I guess!