How NOT To Shoot A Band Video

Were YOU at our last night’s gig at Frenz on the 25th of April? We have videos of the night’s happenings!

…..So we had this great idea, why not shoot a video of our band’s final night’s performance at Frenz Fun Pub. Especially since it was going to be a massive jam session with lots of guest musicians. Brilliant idea.

So we borrowed a videocam from Andy Tan , it was a JVC hard-disk videocam, and Eisubius would be (ir)responsible for the whole video thingy. Brilliant plan.

Except it turns out that shooting a video in a dark pub results in a dark, Stevie-Wonder-ful-vision video. And using the onboard microphone gives you a it’s-a-cheap-crappy-microphone sound. And having a bunch of drinking buddies hold the videocam ensures recording mayhem. AND they get their monkey friends to make monkey faces at the camera. And the wisecracks…….sheesh, whose stupid idea was this whole thing anyway?

And after the said crappy video is shot, just htf (how, close relative of wtf) are you supposed to make a usable video out of it?

JVC videocams save the video recording in a proprietory JVC format: .MOD extension. NO other effing (excuse the French, it’s me vast travelling experience showing, sorry) company uses this stupid .MOD format, and apart from me never having worked on a video before, I had to find a way to work with this .MOD thing. Long story, but I finally figured out a work-around.

Then of course htf to create video clips for youtube (seems like you either have a video on youtube or you are a nobody) and also make a DVD for them folks who were at the party and need to watch a crappy dark DVD with shit sound to recollect events.

And so anyway, if you watch the video above, you’ll know why it’s so crappy.

BUT y’know what? It was a bloody great night and a wonderful party/jam session!