It just dawned on me the other day that I never followed up with what happened to the music video project I was working on.
“What was it…?”, you ask.
Well… the plan was to make a prequel to the Capital of Culture event that takes place Turku in September of 2011. It was put together by CulturaMobila, a local community arts group headed by Julian Garner (who you first saw here) Julian directed the kids and also wrote the script, the lyrics and performed the song. Originally it was just guitar with some duplicating of his voice during the chorus, but later additional music was added by Ari Viitanen.
It was storyboarded, filmed and edited by yours truly. I also did the effects, which was biting off a little bit more than I could chew 😀 If you remember we got off to a rocky start and the resulting footage was a nightmare to track. This was my first time doing tracking and it almost drove me insane. I learned a LOT, but unfortunately the hard way. However… I think the end result turned out pretty good.
Especially with zero budget.
Actually, talking with Julian later, we both agreed that there was so much that we would do differently if ever in the same situation again. We had a blast working together and with so many ideas flying around between us, hopefully we’ll do something together again in the future (Maybe without tracking though… 😉 )
So go check it out and maybe even give us a “like” on Youtube. You can also check out and befriend CulturaMobila on Facebook where there’s some really great photos of their other projects!
And all you pros out there… be kind. 😀
-Scott-
I liked the video and thought it was well done. And I laughed at the part where the kids were running over the candy to bring down the kidnappers because all I could think about was the comic! One question though- what was up with the communal teeth brushing?
Nice to hear from someone about the video!
Yeah, that candy scene was…interesting. The teeth brushing scene had to do with the candy giving (which can be made into any metaphor you like) and it was meant to show how they had changed from the greedy “candy kids” to happy, healthy etc. etc. people.
But as I said before (I think), the whole greed thing can be seen as a metaphor for us adults.
Ah ok, that makes sense!