The Process
For the low price of $750.00, we offer the following TEN HOUR process:
- 1 HOUR | Initial Meeting – we meet with you to discuss your ideas for the music video. Together we check that they fit within the project’s ten hours.
- 4 HOURS | Shoot Footage – we meet on location, set up the camera and lights, and film the act. We provide playback through either a PA or IEMs (included in the price). This depends on whether the video is a mimed performance or a concept that uses actors (usually unpaid friends) or props.
- 3 HOURS | Edit Footage – we edit the footage in our small edit suite. One member of the act is welcome to join in. Unfortunately, the room is tiny (7 sq. m), so we physically can’t fit any more people!
- 1 HOUR | Grade Footage – Colour grading and general tweaks to create additional mood through the use of colour.
- 1 HOUR | Output to YouTube format – finally, we export the finished video to H264 and upload it to your YouTube account!
ELASKIA
The concept for this video was a Tinder date gone horribly wrong. Elaskia recorded the demo in the Studio Projects studio. Then we shot the video under the singer’s parents’ house in Avoca on the NSW Central Coast, in a part of the house still under renovation. Nick, a friend of the band, brilliantly played the Tinder “date”, while the guitarist and percussionist played the torturers. Unfortunately, the singer’s parents thought the clip was far too dark, so the band never released it.
OMEGAMAN
Marc Scully, AKA Omegaman, is an old friend from my days in Sydney. He was the bass player of The Deadly Hume, and I was the house engineer at the Sydney Trade Union Club. We reconnected on Facebook years later, so I offered to help him with a music video. We shot it on a Nikon D3200 DX camera in a nightclub in Surry Hills, Sydney. Later, Marc re-edited the raw footage with Peter Metro, so this is my unreleased edit of the clip. Tragically, the singer and washboard player passed away soon after we shot the video.
BLEEDING GASOLINE
The boys were so happy with our first effort that they decided to shoot another video, this time at a well-known BJJ and MMA gym in Newcastle NSW. This time we used a few more props. These included a Shure 535 blues mic hanging from its lead, a smoke machine and a couple of pro MMA fighters. We also had a bunch of the band’s friends and some weird little kids who looked like they’d just escaped from reform school! It just goes to show what you can achieve on a shoestring budget with a couple of ideas.
BLEEDING GASOLINE
This was my first ever music video, shot soon after I caught the bug and learned to use my entry-level Nikon D3200. Jason and the boys wanted to shoot in an abandoned house in Gosford NSW. So we borrowed some lights and a quirky German guy to run them, and found this asbestos-laden treat. After a few beers, the band swung into overdrive. We shot the video in a couple of hours, fully expecting the police to shut us down at any minute!