I have spent most of my day on a video buzz, which is as it should be, I’ve spent so long getting ready to do my pirate video, and then I just did it with the very barest effort. No masterpiece but done for the sake of having done it.
Maximizing explosions was a bit of a hit when I’ve showed it to some Reality Compound fans
After maximizing explosions, I decided to do another music video, which was “Low Key” which I was pretty happy with, to be honest. Low Key’s a project I will look back on and be happy with a solid tune with a cool video. Today I uploaded the hamlet video, that I’d been holding back so I could stagger my vids a bit more changing up between music and more um entertainment vids.
The idea of the hamlet video was just to do some acting, the plan was to just do easy, modest videos, and it’s working, I’m doing lots of videos now because I didn’t try too hard to do anything that major. With hamlet I just wanted to remember some lines and try some real acting.
But yeah and I’ve been updating the reality compound channel with more videos too, basically just warming up the channel with activity,
But yeah I just went at that pirate video, well . . . in the most casual fashion. I honestly just went ohhhkkkayyy set up the camera, filmed one take, and was done. Y’know, like, whatever. I could have done 10 takes but I didn’t. It’s about doing it, about getting with video where I’m at with blogging. I blog hard, now all I need to do is bring more quality to it.
I did that pirate video, it’s done, so I’m afforded the luxury of reflecting on what that was about and what’s next. Like Hamlet, it was about doing it, proving a point that I can throw down a video. I can do it. Now I want to start upping the quality, for the next pirate video I want to use a net and do some real slapstick.
The point was my old video was years old and old and ragged. My new video looks much better quality although perhaps I didn’t make the biggest effort to ensure it was as effective as possible. Who cares. Done is done.
The next video project we’re going for is pure juice and juice of life. I have gathered heaps of resources but I’m still trying to get my ideas together. I’ve got the film resources I want to use now I just have to round up my own sources. What have I got?
What I shot of karl and I at upfm studio
Snippets of live footage from karl
Footage of me + Ivan at upfm solar series
additional footage of me at mine and john’s
Ivan’s online stuff.
I’ve actually uncovered a few discs of footage Ivan’s given me so I should have enough, but I still want to use some of his south island tour short circuit footage.
My plan is to actually use all my own sources on both videos, but juice of life is soul science remixing NSU ft. squeezer but pure juice is just us remixing squeezer so all footage of ivan goes to juice of life.
pure juice
ray ban electro
football theme montage
80’s dancing
Concrete TV
top gun
juice of life
interactive-installation – prisma – 3 mins
pieceofpaper – 3 mins
forest footage 7 mins
So what we’ve got here is 7 minutes of forest footage and two 3 minutes of futuristic noir and cyber lights.
so basically forest 0 -1.27 / 3.38 – 4.22 / after 5 minutes
strictly techno lights 2.32 – 3.38 / 4.22 -
and sort of mashing them up in between. I’m pretty much thinking all the footage of me and karl at upfm and me and ivan at solar series will be for pure juice, while all the footage I found from ivan will be for juice of life.
intro – 0 – forest / intro bits
bass – 1.27 – paper introduced /
“chorus” – 1.52
roll out – 2.32 no forest
breakdown – 3.38 forest / microscope scenes
2nd drop – 4.22
wind down – 5.48
Oh man going through all this footage ivan gave me, there is a tonne of stuff! I forgot he digitized my whole tape from downbeat syndrome, there’s enough stuff for a whole short circuit mini clip, and tonnes of stuff I can use in the vid for our stray theories remix.
This is really exciting to dig up new historic material!
Which means for juice of life I have:
Downbeat syndrome material, rescape material,
And for pure juice I have both the upfm related tapes.
So I’m doing the same as I did with low key, making a full length clip based on my own source footage, and adding the bits later. With Pure juice, I have to look at the footage. I think I will use the solar series footage for the melodic parts and the studio footage for the drop, which I’ll also try and put in the bits I’ve got of soul science playing and squeezer playing.
So there will be a little bit of double up on the playing out footage for both vids, and possibly all the best solar series bits, but also 2 clips I took of myself and super sped up so it looks like madness, I think I want to use these in both clips, just try to tease it out use it in different ways.
I mean they’re not supposed to be freestanding masterpieces just yet. They’re videos that are cool to check out if your listening to the song, and I like the idea that having these videos will make us stand out, especially if I can catch up and have the videos ready as the songs come out! That’s why I can’t muck around and if that means using the best footage in 2 videos I’ll be putting out together for the same label, then hey, I’m lazy.
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