In my previous post, I told you guys that I’ve received an offer to shoot music videos for well known Pakistani bands. I got the offer through a friend who does a bit of screen play writting and the band asked him to do the video and he just asked if I wanted to tag along. I did as a sane person wanting to add something different to their resume would do, I pounced on the opportunity like a kitten on a ball of wool. My friend/writter sent me the concept and told me the gist of what he requires me to do.
A majority of the video is going to be made up of time lapse photography but a few small, but crucial parts, of them are to be shot in video. I volunteered for that as well and luckily my friend/writter aggreed to let me have a go at the video bits. I told him that I would be using a DSLR for the video. He was a bit sceptical at first but he got his head around it when I showed him some of the work done by the extremely talanted Philip Bloom.
HDSLR videography is something that I’ve been dying to give a serious try for quite sometime ever since I got my D90. But after a few tests with the D90, it was apparent that I would have to get another body. The D90’s video capture cababillities are…well…shit. I have been considering to go down the Canon route with a 7D (*gasp* the blasphamy!!) but now I’m going to wait till I get to read decent hands-on review of the Nikon D7000 or try it out myself in a camera store. Even though the 7D has far superior video related features than the new D7000, it’ll do till the time the folks at Nikon come up with an answer to the 7D or the 5Dmk2. Changing brands is never easy (unless you’ve got a thick wad of cash under your mattress due to tax evasion).
Aaaaanyway. The second offer is to film a music video of a new upcoming Pakistani progressive rock band (can’t disclose their name at this point because of instructions from the band). I got offered this directly for a reason I honestly can’t figure out. One of the band members saw my photography while flciking through flickr and asked me if I would be intersted in videography. I told him about the other music video that I will be doing soon and his exact words were…’cool, I’ll send you the song. Please just make sure no one gets their hands on it’. Weird. But hey! I got a job shooting a music video for my favourite genre!
I’ve got a concept (with the help of a friend) for this which sat very well with the band members when I pitched it to them. I’m now more excited about shooting this video more than the first one since the rock video is all video..no timelapse or any stills involved. )
So that’s two…here’s the third. This is my own project in collabortaion with another writer friend of mine (the one who helped me with the concept of the rock video). This was the result of a conversation while being high on coffee at 2 a.m. He randomly started telling me an idea for a short film he had (which is absolutely genious) and wanted to make something of it for quite sometime but couldn’t. 5 hours later, facebook messages to friends are being sent out to see who’s willing to act, tentitive dates are being laid out to see when we can shoot improvs and my friend starts work on the treatment for the script.
There you have it. I’ve had a pretty eventful month as you can see. Very excited about all these opportunities which have litterally been laid out in my lap (ask and ye shall recieve?). I just hope I don’t screw anything up.
Practice, practice, practice!
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