My first experiment with Sony Vegas, 3 different videos combined to create a surreal effect. In Minor Motion is taken from the forthcoming Bare Bones EP.
Had some good news the other day, Lona Records will be releasing my new EP. The release date hasn’t been finalised but I’m guessing it will be early 2010.
Each track is available as full length preview at Last FM and Track 4 can be downloaded for free. I’m working on a video for the lead track which involves stop motion/time-lapse photography, so it’s taking forever to finish.
My favourite of the four is Sakura, inspired by Cherry Blossoms, Japanese Horror Movies, Brian Eno and Metronomes. It’s a free floating melody set over a repeating drum loop.
The first of my no budget videos, the plan was to have a video for all 4 tracks on the EP but I only got around to making 2 videos, Milenka and Fall which I later remade along with a video for Oico so 3 out of 4 isn’t bad.
This video was made by digitally manipulating footage from Hitchcock’s1945 movie Spellbound in particular the dream sequence which featured contributions from master surrealist Salvador Dali Rather than just rip the footage from the dvd I shot the footage by placing the camera in front of the TV because I wanted a flickering effect.
I had to remake this video for two reasons, firstly because I lost the original file and secondly because the uploaded version has a glitch (not the good type) between 1.27 and 1.31 I could of tried to pass it off as intentional but I wouldn’t be fooling anyone.
This one has been a real labour of love, I’ve been working on it for several months and made several different versions, in the end I decided to to take the best parts from each video and edit them together.
