After a hectic week of four consecutive night shoots for my short film, Meeko and ending the week with a shoot for Stephen Duffy’s new band, The Lilac Time, it was safe to say I was well and truly spent.
GH4 shooting 4k on the Dynamic Perception
I had planned a pretty chilled week of doing dissertation work and lounging around. However, that all went out the window when Zack gave me a ring to say we were going to London. It turned out that the director from the Stephen Duffy shoot was impressed by the way we worked and asked if we would be keen to film a music video for an ex-rock legend from the 80s, how you could you say no? Only problem was that this was super last minute and we would have to drive up to London the very next day to do it.
First thing on the agenda - see how much gear we could pikey off the uni to take with us. A lot of the gear had been booked up by other students (our beloved RED) and also for the new Filmmaker in Residence programme at Falmouth Uni. We therefore decided to try out the Lumix GH4 teamed up with an Odyssey 7Q+, as this would allow us to capture super high quality 4K. We also grabbed the usual things such as: a bunch of lenses, a fogger, some LED panels, a few tripods and my Dynamic Perception Stage Zero rig.
We set off at 7am, grabbed brekkie on the road, stopped for some coffee, got lost, stopped for more coffee, grabbed lunch, stopped for even more coffee and then we finally arrived 300 miles later.
After chatting with Doug, he told us that there wasn’t much of a plan and that we had full creative freedom to make this video. We were a bit thrown back at first, but learnt to embrace it once we had figured out the flow for the video, a few BTS shots can be seen below.
A grumpy looking Alessi at 7am with no coffee...
Zack & Doug grabbing a quick rig shot.
Our awesome model, Libby, getting ready for the next scene.
Masters of Tetris
That's a wrap (we weren't this energetic after the 7 hour journey back)!
Unfortunately we can’t disclose whom this video is for, but the video will be released around mid-June and hopefully covered by NME.
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