Another music video, another dollar....well....

A fairly slow start to the year in terms of productions.
The main thing so far being the just completed and published music video for the Oxford doom/sludge band UNDERSMILE, and the song "Soil".

This was all shot on the trusty Canon T2i, from around the end of January until March (Actually only on 4 days, it just got spread over a wide amount of time)....To start with I had ideas of creating a very Argento style video, and although the colour scheme of the 'live' part retained the very over the top lighting, little remains of my original plan...So it ended up being a mish mash of visuals, not perhaps as striking as the previous video I did for the band, but it captures their performance style better.

As the live part was filmed at night (on a freakishly cold MArch evening, in the middle of a farm, with snow and ice still on the ground), I had to employ a 30mm 1.4 sigma lens (not fantastic as the focus was razor thin), and a lot of lights to get close to lighting the scene...I'd bought 6 160-led lights and covered them with coloured gels and thought that might be enough, but to be honest I really could have done with more powerful lights...and as I hate pushing the camera above 400iso I had a real job on my hands...a 5dMarkII would probably have been better for this, but hey.

As always I tell myself I won't film 'the next' project at night, but I always do!

Undersmile - Soil - The Official Video

A long time...but still in the game!

Okay okay, I know, 3 years of bloggy invisibility. Entirely my fault, but things in the Mondo Cheapo camp have not been quiet.
After the misfire that was "Raven's Wing" (more on that in the future), the hopes for 80's action superstardom that was "Asmatico", 2012 saw some success for MCP....
The video for the Undersmile song "Milk" was the first music video I've ever filmed, and it's currently got nearly 50,000 views in under 6 months...
Then an improtu recording of the deathrock band Fangs on Fur at the Whitby Goth Festival, resulted in a massive thumbs up for my video for their song "Cigarette".
More music videos are being planned along with shorts/longer features.
Stay frosty, 2013 is the future, Man!