So, several months after upgrading to a Nikon D7000, I’ve finally made something with actual moving pictures. This is a video for “Good To Be”, the first single from Piefinger‘s new album “A Countryman’s Favour” which will be out on 1st November, 2011. It was shot in full HD, so crank up the YouTube settings on the embed as high as your system will allow:
This is intended to be the first of two promos for “Good To Be”, the second will feature people listening to the song on headphones. That’s still a work-in-progress at this time…
For those with a technical bent, the video was shot on a Nikon D7000 using some very old lenses; a 135mm dating from the late sixties (It’s the one my dad used to take baby pictures of me!), an 85mm from 1974 and a 105mm also from the early seventies. The whole thing was shot in my living room, in available light (because I’ve never had to light my own shoots before and the learning curve was a little too steep for the time allowed) and then edited and colour-graded on Final Cut Pro X, which worked like an absolute dream.
I went for a very simple idea because it was my first solo effort but I think the end result is pretty effective.
Hopefully there’ll be more where this came from over the coming months.
The video enhanced the song … which is so rare, but very welcome, these days.
My incompetence. Anyway, I spent two hours experimenting and got the sound back. I really liked the song — words as well as music and singing. And just having sharp unpretentious faces with no background was striking. It seems the sort of thing that will always be somewhere in my head waiting to be brought out again if only I cd remember where I’d put it. Thoughtful, unusual, and the tune doesn’t shout.
And yes.more please.
It looked very good, but I couldn’t get any sound at all.
I think I’ll be reading more of you. And reading your descriptions of your photo taking. I’m a novice.
Sorry you couldn’t get sound. No idea why that would be.
Excellent video and song – but Julian you didn’t even get a credit at the end.
Yeah, I decided against it – it’s not all about me, for once!
Fair enough. Have found that over last 24hrs the song is incredibly catchy and is now lodged somewhere between my ears. Will investigate the others at piefinger.co.uk – not my usual type of music but it is very listenable.
More vids please Mr Director (even if you use making them as a therapy against Beeb nonsense)