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I only managed to take one pic on my iphone on the shoot today, which is this one - a crap snap of the monitor.
what you won't see for a week or so, is people spinning on their heads, some freaky dancing, booty shaking, moonwalkin and all sorts of good stuff like that.
the artist is the dude in the middle. i had to get the leading lady to take her shoes off, to aid his ego...
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I only managed to take one pic on my iphone on the shoot today, which is this one - a crap snap of the monitor.
what you won't see for a week or so, is people spinning on their heads, some freaky dancing, booty shaking, moonwalkin and all sorts of good stuff like that.
the artist is the dude in the middle. i had to get the leading lady to take her shoes off, to aid his ego...
So an inferiority complex AND the indoor-sunglasses arrogance - I love this guy already ...
... NOT!
He's a legend in his own head right now, but there's no reason that he can't be the new Usher (that's his aim) - of the 40 people on the shoot, I heard so much proper good feedback about the good song and performance etc. I did have to keep him in check, a director's work is never done...
I can't really tell the difference between good r&b and bad r&b, though, to tell you the truth...
i mean, there was definately rhythm, but no blues....
Oh for Gawd's sake don't re-open the Definition of Rhythm & Blues wound ...
(all together now..) WHAT DEFINITION WOULD THAT BE THEN??!?! (runs for cover)
rich - you really never sleep, do you? i'd be bon-bon-bon-bon-bon-bon-bon-kers by now!!
how on earth do you get by with yr 4 hours per night?!!?
Nah! As per normal, I'm still up with some admin to do ahead of tomorrow's course, which starts in under 7hrs time in Leeds (at ITV, funnily enough, to continue the televisual theme of the thread).
At 5 or 6 hrs a night I can last for weeks. It's when it gets down to 3 hrs/night for a week, or when I have to do an up-all-nighter that my age and general unfitness begins to catch up on me.
Now, back to that admin ...
Maybe he was blinded by the spotlights and needs to wear sunglasses...no?
Speaking of videos, Pitchfork is doing a whole retrospective on the noughties (yes, they're almost over), including their favourite videos of the decade:
http://pitchfork.com/features/staff-lists/7695-the-top-50-music-videos-of-the-2000s/1/
I have an ongoing fantasy that I might have shot and edited the original music video, except it wasn't video in those days, it was 16mm but it was shot for TV.
In the early 70's I was approached by a West Coast jazz group named 'Glider' to shoot and edit a piece that was basically their recording of their first piece in the studio, can't recall the name of the piece and Glider doesn't show in my jazz vinyl, it goes from Evans [Bill] to Gordon [Dexter], my Frank Foster must be under Basie. But I know I have a copy somewhere, What I recall is that there's about 400 edits in the piece and that they paid me about $400 and I never got a print of the final edit!
Someone must know the history of music videos, do I rate?
It's cool that you're sharing bits as you go along. Its fun to follow along at home. No wonder films cost millions if this much goes into a 3 min music video.
@goneforeign:
With the arrival of the sound films and talkies in 1926, many Musical short films were produced. Vitaphone shorts (1926–30), which were produced by Warner Bros, featured many bands, vocalists and dancers. The series entitled Spooney Melodies was the first true musical video series. The shorts lasted about six minutes long and featured art deco style animations and backgrounds combined with film of the performer singing the song. This series of shorts can arguably be considered to be the earliest music videos.[1]
Animation artist Max Fleischer introduced a series of sing-along short cartoons called Screen Songs, which invited audiences to sing along to popular songs by "following the bouncing ball". Early 1930s cartoons featured popular musicians performing their hit songs on-camera in live-action segments during the cartoons.
I guess I missed it by 40 odd years! But I don't ever recall seeing modern pop groups doing it back in the 70's. Though I do remember singing along to the bouncing ball at the movies.
Thank you Wiki...
Can you get the leading lady to take anything else off?
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