Ben Stewart – Violet the Killjoy Music Video

This is one of those videos which should be watched first, then explained:

Ben Stewart – Violet the Killjoy (Outside In) from Jaymis on Vimeo.

This was one of the most fun videos I’ve ever been involved in. Well and truly nestled in the “fast, cheap, effective” philosophy, we went from concept to completed shoot in under 24 hours.

Ben Stewart approached me with a small budget and a catchy song. On Saturday night, while waiting for Rachgirl to get off the phone with her mum, I did a little experiment with party poppers and the 200FPS slow motion mode on my camera.

I called Rowley Cowper up on Sunday morning with “bring your tools over, you need to make me a device to set off 200 party poppers at once”. Ben and I bought Cannon Hill out of poppers, Billy Hyde’s out of ukuleles, and we made it to The Edge in time for nightfall.

As it took almost two hours to load the launcher, and as we were shooting in The Edge auditorium after closing, we only had one chance to get the shot, so we did about a dozen rehearsals before the “live fire” exercise. Read the rest of this entry »

Girls with video cameras

While gently nuzzling the grindstone this morning, I’ve had a browser tab open playing lovely DIY videos of ladies who make music. Things are more bearable this way.

Outkast – Hey Ya, by an awesome uke-wielding Irish girl called Orla:

Aaaaand, Lady Gaga – Telephone, by two people pretending to be Many People.

Lovely.

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