I mentioned in a previous post that I am currently working on a music video for an ambitious local band. When it comes to music videos, I can be honest and say I don’t have much experience in them but from the previous two I have done, I can tell you that they can be a lot of fun.

The first one I did was for a university assignment. One of the group members, who is still my partner in crime to this day, got hold of an electronic Aphex Twin type track by a musician she knew. Because the music didn’t have any words, we pretty much had free reign to do whatever we wanted. When the musician didn’t want to be in the video, our group thought we’ll each come up with a little story that I’ll somehow link up through a “in the picture” type transition done through After Effects. That way, everyone in the group could write and direct their own scene. I had become quite comfortable in using AE by that stage and tried to come up with any excuse to put it to use.

Being an assignment, we had very little time to complete the music video, the shoot took about three days and I edited it together in about 4 days but with very late nights. This was finished early 2005 and it is still one of my favourite videos. Premiere Pro was used for the first edit, AE was used for everything else. From what I recall, we got a pretty high mark for it, a HD minus or something like that. Warning, may have scenes some people might find distressing! (yeah it’s one of those type of student films)

No Birds by Manuel Bonrod