I spent my Saturday evening shooting a band at a beautiful venue. It’s an old converted church turned in to a arts/community space.
Here I am. Hunched over. Doing my back the world of good I’m sure.
the project is a performance video for a goth band called 1919
They’re based in Leeds UK, near me.
They’ve been around a few years (ahem - before I was born), and have had a bunch of line up changes since starting out in 1980!
However the current singer and guitarist are my age.
They’re taking the band in new directions, giving it a bee lease of life.
We had 5 hours to load in, setup, shoot everything and get out!
I’ve never ached so much the next day before in my life.
I shot everything handheld on a gimbal, and so there was a lot of movement, arching, arms outstretched, back vent over. Ooof.
It was pretty exhausting.
I’ve not watched any of the video clips back yet but I was happy with the style and tone we got from the setups.
I’ve had a flurry of creative music video work lately.
It feels good.
It’s given me focus to try out some new ideas and flex some new creative muscles and scratch some itches.
I’m hoping to have the project finished in a couple of weeks.
In the mean time I need to buy myself a new video editing machine.
My current iMac - although nice and does ok - is on its last legs.
It’s not handling 4K very well, especially not 6K.
I’ve heard very good things about the Mac Mini M1 chip for video work... so I think that would be a good value stop gap before I settle on an entirely new setup!
I’m also really enjoying using these battery powered LED strip lights on all sorts of projects.
Best £100 I’ve spent in years on lights. So cheap and so versatile.
Good times ahead. Cheers for reading, @ashtv.