Complete!

So this took a bit longer than we expected - but the wait was worth it. Thanks to everyone who helped out with the music video - I hope you are happy with the final product :)

Higher by IN VALOUR from In Valour on Vimeo.

Nearly there!

So we are nearly there! At last. I am working on colour grading at the moment. We do need three more shots, but once I get those then this video is done! I'll post it here once it's complete, and I am hoping it will be complete in the next few weeks. Thanks for your patience!

Sunbeam Tiger

Well, we arrived at last at day three of the video shoot. Simon turned up with his beautiful Sunbeam Tiger V8. It looks the business, as you can see from the pic! He gave Valerie a quick rundown on how to get the best out of the beautiful motor. This man loves his motors! You should hear the purr from the v8 engine - but you won't as this is a music video. Still, maybe I'll try sneak it in there somewhere - it's such a powerful sound.

Paraic brought along a Canon 7D for today's shoot, and Dan came along with his 7D also. The footage looks fantastic. Thanks guys! So now it's up to me to get cracking on the edit...

Happy New Year!

So it has been a bit too cold to bring the classic cars out. So far. But hopefully we'll get to do it later in the month. I'm really looking forward to getting my teeth into this video again. Adrian took all the stills on this blog, so we don't have any pics of him here at all, even though he has been showing up on short notice too. He's here for those curious creatures out there. I'll put up some stills from the current edit too over the next few days. I'm having great fun with grading - you really can let yourself go wild when you're doing a music video.

Actors

I wanted to say thanks to all the actors who took part in Saturday's shoot, particularly at such short notice. Those actors are Sinead Dunphy, Lorraine O'Keeffe, Vendula Vajnerova and Marie O'Donovan. I contacted them no more than a few days before the shoot, and they all showed up. Not only that, but they did a fantastic job, as you'll soon see. Valerie Hely (singer) was involved in Saturday's shoot along with a shoot earlier in the week. Both shoots took place down by The Marina in Cork City.

Edit

I'm currently editing the footage I've captured so far. Paraic used a Sony FX1 with a SGPro 35mm adapter and a variety of lenses. Some footage was also captured on the panasonic nv-gs400 and the sony hd1000p. Documentary footage was captured by Adrian Looney.

Higher Music Video

This is a blog to keep people up to date on the music video I'm shooting for In Valour's track "Higher". You can listen to the track here: http://www.myspace.com/invalour Paraic English is DOP on the shoot. Adrian Looney is stills photographer. I'm attaching some of his stills below. We're two days into the shoot, and we're waiting for some dry weather (not so common in Ireland!) so we can do the third day.