Promo shoot, shot...

I spent the whole of today with the rest of Jeanie in the Radiator in a freezing cold, abandoned Colgate factory in Salford to shoot our promo video.  It went a lot more smoothly than expected.  I got my friend Paul Allen down to do the sound for the live acoustic performance we did.  He brought along his rig and assortment of Neumann, AKG and SE condenser mics and we were able to get a really nice sound.  The natural reverb of the huge space of the room really helped achieve great results as far as the audio went, and the director Mike had called in favours from workmates at the BBC so we had experienced camera men working to get the visual side of things looking sweet too.

We performed 3-4 takes of each of our own three songs (In Heaven, Bipolar and Building 30 apt. 10) as well as a cover of 'Katy on a Mission' by Katy B which we had previously performed at our acoustic gig in Altrincham.  Once we had enough footage we did our interview with Anthony Crank, who had prepared some questions, on a set Mike had designed using some rented furniture which looked really good.  The interview went pretty smoothly, certainly we had given Mike enough to use and so after around 30 minutes, ensuring we had put the relevant information across, we called a wrap!

It was a great experience doing the music video.  I've wanted to do something like this for a long time and it was quite an achievement to have co-organised it from scratch and pulled it off.  It was also a perfect way to make more contacts in the television, audio and radio industries (Anthony Crank having recently been hosting a BBC Radio Manchester show).  I can't wait to see the final results; I'm going to Paul's home studio to sort the audio out next Friday and once we have that to Mike to edit, it shouldn't be long before it is done!

©2010 Chris Lane

©2010 Chris Lane