I visit all kind of places, shooting all kinds of subjects.
Heavy metal festivals ✅
Corporate events ✅
Filming studio interviews ✅
Racecars and racehorses ✅
Musicians in the studio ✅
Music videos ✅
Greenscreen studio ✅
Wild animals and children ✅
Sky diving ❌ (hell no)
But I must admit I do really enjoy making these little performance videos for event bands.
They’re usually a pretty quick turnaround and tend to be a pleasant time during the filming process.
The bands are always super professional and very talented too. I have shot with probably about 15 event/function hire bands over the years and they all bring their own take on the music, and add a twist. No two are ever alike.
Bands like these work hard to make private events go off with a bang and I hope my work in shooting/cutting these promos helps them bag some more (and bigger) gigs.
(Video tracks include Dua Lipa, The Weeknd, SFA, Faith Evans and Sister Sledge)
In this shoot I experimented with new lighting and staging, which I documented previously in this post a couple of months back.
I hope for future projects to enable me to work with LED ‘neon’ style lighting like this. I really like it, I think it’s effective.
Maybe even some more interesting camera movements too.
These videos tend to be quite formulaic though, as they need to easily and without confusion, convey the bands style and ability to potential bookers.
So I guess there will always be a template that works to do that. But a bit of flair doesn’t hurt, right?
Shout out to these chaps who engaged with the original behind-the-scenes post.. hope you like the final result!
Cheers for checking out my work as ever!
