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Book Group Band - Video

Book Group from Calum Ross on Vimeo.



Back in October 2014, Book Group - a local Edinburgh band - presented the opportunity to create my first pop video for their single 'Here is to near', taken from the EP 'Tantrums'. A limited budget and time restraints pointed towards a simple concept of using portraits that could then be manipulated using Adobe After Effects (AE) in postproduction. Fortunately Robb Mcrae was on hand to provide the filming of the band's beautiful bonces. 3 hours of footage later and it was a wrap. I am no AE guru so had to keep it simple, even that was a learning curve, however the end result is an interesting visual piece that the band were very happy with.

 

inspiration

 

Inspiration was taken from various places primarily the artwork of local artist Russell Ian Dempster, Francis Bacon and this cracking video for the song 'Further Complications' by Jarvis Cocker. The jutter effect is a simple bit of coding within AE that ties scale and blur to the beat and volume of the music. It was a great project and it would be great to work on other pop vids in the future.

 

Production Notes

Here Is Too Near 00:00 / 03:49

Shots - Primary Camera
Footage of light. Used as beat and also possible background
On then off.

Portraits x 4
White background - close in. Still head limited movement
Portraits x 4
White background - close in. More movement and expression

Portraits x 4
Extreme Detail
Portraits x 4
Green Screen - close in. Still head limited movement

Portraits x 4
Green Screen- close in. More movement and expression
Portraits x 4
Green Screen - Extreme Detail
Full body shots x 4
Green Screen

Recording time
97:72 min