I don't have a smart (or stupid) title for this
Inspired by @selfhelp4trolls when he asked on threads "Can I see your other work somewhere?" i realized it is kinda all over the place. As i do have some other things to do, but procrastinating is great, i decided to make a post with some kind of recap of videos i filmed for some music. Most i would not call music videos 😄
In no particular order.
A lot of these are filmed "live" as they were recording the music live and i was filming all the takes. And the take that is the best from the music point is the take that goes. I need to make excuses for some bad filming :)
First one is nothing special from video standpoint, 2 cameras on tripods (Canon 600d and Canon 80d). But i like how it looks. Could be that the lights were decent. A window and opened door on the left + a Yongnuo reflector to add a bit more light. 85mm closeup looks good too.
And i like this weird version of Livin' La Vida Loca
I think this one was the first ever video where we had some kind of a script of what should happen and how should the scenes work. For most of the song :) Had the Yongnuo die on us in the middle of the shoot :D so we continued to film with a construction light. Not great for color correction.
The song When He Sees Me is from a musicale called Waitress
Think this one was also on Dunja initiative. Cover of Shallow. Filmed with Canon 80d, live music (you can see the laptop and music card in the background). Filmed with the old mechanical gimbal with weights that i got for something like 50$ and to be honest never learned how to use it properly
Latest one, there is a longer post in the making about filming this. With all the problems and how long was it filmed i am pretty happy with it.
First music video for a song from first album from Kronika. There is a running theme in a lot of these, it was cold when we decided to record it :D
First version of Bude všetko dobre. Live recording, the same Yongnuo light :D. This one was filmed with Canon R6.
4 from the session we filmed in the old Disco club. Had to be black and white doe to the quality of the 4 led reflectors we had. Anyone who is following me for a while know the hate i have for those cheap led reflectors :D
Also filmed with the old mechanical gimbal, still didn't learn how to use it as you can see with the camera movement :D
As the plan was B&W i liked the look of the 8mm film. At least i tried to make it look like that.
First idea was to go around them for the full song, gave up, mostly because of my pro gimbal use. All recorded with Canon 60d and the light Sigma 18-35mm :D Love the lens, not great for your wrist :D
There was a contest for some ecology project for kids in the elementary school. Did this song and video. We lost because of vote manipulation :D
Filming 6 songs live, cold, pro gimbal manipulation. In one song i just gave up and put it on the ground :D
We had an idea of first filming the video of them playing and then they will record the song, because of some weird time complications. Yes, that was a really stupid idea. So few weeks later we did this. It was a fun one.
We also had a period of filming drum covers. Did 4-5 of them. I like this one. Filmed with 3 different cameras. 2 Canons and one Nikon.
A Christmas song for a Perla choir.
This was first video i ever recorded. Literally. A week before filming we talked about recording a song, few days later i tired to click record button on my Canon 600D and realized that the card i had is not fast enough to record video :D
Then i had 3 days to learn everything about recording shutter speed, how it works, how to film... End credits say 2015.
The video was no longer on youtube as the person who posted it moved from music to video game music and rebranded the channel. Managed to find a version on my old HDD. I am pretty sure i posted it on 3speak, but it is not there, so it could be it was Dtube.
This one is also an old old one. Not great from video standpoint. But it did kickstart a lot of this.
You will see a lot of same people in all these videos. Is is a small community in a small town that from time to time gets an idea to do something. Mostly because we can, and why not.
I always liked this quote i randomly found on the internet years ago
This is so cool and (I think) useful. I haven't been following you for too long, so it's really nice to get to see this sort of compilation post and have a better idea of what you do.
I haven't watched them all (yet), but I really like the two Kronika ones. I love the lighting in the second one (it's this Dunja lady dancing in that, isn't it? She's very talented) and the sadness of the first :)
And the Bude všetko dobre one! (Does that mean all will be alright, btw?). It's so quiet (And i mean visually, not sound-wise). It's really intimate.
I'm glad you put this together! Now stop procrastinating :P
Kronika ones are probably the most technically best done. kinda most seriously done, as they did do an "official" album. And are the latest ones, so it is nice to see the development :D
Dunja is killing it :) With singing and dancing. And is one of those who could be in a Duracell commercials, she never stops. And she is the one who actually started earning living money from music :)
A bude všetko dobre, Budeme sa smiať (And everything will be fine, we will laugh.)
a pretty depressing song with a bit of a brightness. Kinda the theme of Martin :)
And he is the one who is often pushing for us do do stuff, i am the one who says yes and others are kinda forced to participate, because they are there :D
Tomorrow, we all know Monday is the best day to start something, or at least to promise to start something.
I admit I had wondered when you posted all those foggy posts whether it was like a project or you just liked going out to take shots of the fog for yourself (which is fair enough in its own way). What came out was hella cool :)
I definitely want to listen to more of his stuff, he seems like my kind of musician :)
Definitely a huge leap forward from the last videos in the post (which, I gather, were much earlier). I think maybe sometimes that's just the point. I think we worry a lot about making money from art, and that's a valid point, but it's certainly not nothing either to see yourself grow and learn to make such beautiful things (and make them better and better). As some might say, enjoy the process. I certainly did enjoy this glimpse into it.
Hope your week started as hoped :)
the whole idea kinda started from a random foggy video with a drone i did few years ago, but was not long enough to cover the song. And it looked interesting, so we made a decision to try and make a story out of it. Actually happy we did :)
there is an unfortunate thing of need to buy food, and finding a good balance with work and creative things :)
And i have a feeling we got a bit lost in the numbers. Everything has to have millions views, most people can't even imagine how million people would look like live :D
Then i think, f. my random post about cats was viewed by over 10k people and i am sure at least 30 enjoyed it, and who know maybe for 10 of them i changed the view of cats and now when ever they see them think about how are they plotting to take over the world :)
government deadlines usually help with stopping the procrastination :D
I love that, the way in which ideas are never really lost in art, they just sort of morph from project to project until they find a form. I think.
Drats. That pesky hunger again, always foiling creative ambition.
There's a cat video? I mean, I'm convinced they're just biding their time until they're ready to strike us already, but I'd like to see it. We need to start banding together if we're to have a shot at fighting back!
unfortunately is just photos :D
https://travelfeed.com/@bil.prag/cats-of-corfu-island
Oh man, I was thinking of that bit in Sandman throughout the post and then, right at the end, there it was! <3
One thing, it really seems like you guys were trespassing. Cats seem quite displeased. Seriously though, these photos are gorgeous. You have a great eye. (But then, we knew that already.)
That's a lot of work, I like all the quality in the videos, there's not really one with bad quality, it's all clear, good definitions...i like the second one the most, lot of movement, home environment, good overall
Thanks :)
it was a bar we hang out a lot.
https://x.com/lee19389/status/1866208656343343319
#hive #posh