The Escape Artist

Ness getting in on David Rom's DOP act

I spent last weekend helping Vanessa out on the set of her latest project. It was the music video for a band called Revere who are just breaking through (if you click here and select the track entitled 'The Escape Artist' you'll be able to hear the track the video has been made to accompany).

The stock is currently being edited but I'll post the finished article on my bl0g as soon as it has been released into the public domain. As far as I know the band are considering projecting the finished film onto the the stage whilst they perform at Glastonbury later this year. As well as being one of several general dogs bodies/runners on set I also found some time to double as the stills photographer.

Here are a few shots from the weekend (friends will be able to see more on Facebook). It was a challenging shoot, the high contrast set lighting made it tricky to get all of the shots I was after balanced correctly at the right exposure. It made me really want a telephoto lens with a bigger aperture! In spite of fast glass envy I was pretty happy with the results...lots of candid unaware over the shoulder stuff... the kind that I like.

Ultimately it was an exhausting but wholly worthwhile weekend's creative endeavor, and has given me loads of ideas about how I might go about filming my newly penned Fable short film.


A happy Ness with finished can

George between takes

Organised chaos behind the camera lens

One of the stop motion sequences

Ness' obsessive passion!

Clapper