Monday 27 February 2012

The Video! - Band Members


(Left to right) - Josh Graham, Travis Ashmore, Connor Hallisey, Neelesh Joshi


We were very lucky in our band members for the music video. Connor has experience in producing videos for his band, deadlines. This gave us a great advantage as he was used to being in front of the camera and added a real presence to the overall effect of the film

Josh Graham was a good friend of Nelly's who came to help us out, and in just one night learnt the entire song  as lead guitarist. This gave us a huge bonus to filming as we could now use close ups on the guitar solos and also all the playing was in time from the lead guitarist

Myself (Travis) hadn't played much  riff guitar before, however this didn't turn out to be much of an issue as when we researched the chords there was only 2-3 that were a necessity to learn, this helped us as the riff guitar now fit with the song also - adding more realism.

Neelesh has played drums for a number of years and is of a high grade. This was another bonus and although not learning the song, his improvising on the breakdown and throughout the choruses made it really easy for us to choose the shots we were going to use as most of the synchronisation was perfect.

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