Making Movies: Beautiful Dangerous

Of all the films I worked on in May, this was probably the most fun.

Not sure how I'd sell it to you without any plot spoilers. So spoiler alert after the break. Followed by a selection of the images I took over the course of the two day shoot.

Making Movies

Well, short films really. Five student films, and a day on set for a low(ish) budget feature.

On night, with a few drinks, I may have suggested to a friend, who goes to Met Film School, that I would be more than happy to help him, and his fellow students, with the sound for their first proper short films. Within a week I'd had about six phone calls from people trying to book me for their 2 day shoots. I could only accept five of them due to them overlapping with real paid work.

A rundown of the gear that I used on the shoots is after the break.

Music: Archive

Another job done. The last two weekends I have been recording a band called Archive. They have been playing to sold out crowds at Ancienne Belgique (3000ish capacity) in Brussels and Le Zenith (6050 capacity) in Paris. The strange thing about this band is that barely anyone would have heard of them in the UK. This is despite the fact the all of the constituent members are from London, more specifically Brixton.

2009 Music Review

So a round-up of last years musical experience. Covering most of the positive notes from an otherwise slightly underwhelming year for music.

Music: Something new from me, Ambient Fear

I'm not wholly sure it can be classed as music... but it has a certain ambience about it and some kind of a rhythm that grabs the attention from the off... if I do say so myself...

The piece started off as just one noise, the horrible distorted one that clicks in and out and then stays for the duration of the "alarm" towards the end. I was looking for a scary sound that would fit a bit of video I took, of a spider taking down its web. I got a bit carried away and went off on a bit of a tangent. This was the result.

The sounds I started with were royalty free samples given away with various magazines. I altered most of them in Ableton Live using creative effects, like beat repeats, splashes of distortion and digital reverbs. All of the effects are running live, so you can grab anything and screw with it to change things up a bit!

The piece is by no means complete. More of a taster of a set of sounds. I threw it together quite quickly in Ableton Live 7. This project could probably do with a few tweaks. Here it is:

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