This is Goodbye Video

I thought I would link the video I just mentioned in my previous blog. It's (obviously) called This is Goodbye and I filmed it on a Kodak zX1 mini camcorder on a day out in Brisbane. I was waiting to go to a meeting about the Cine Sparks festival so used the opportunity to play with it a little. There are no options for anything other than a point and shoot style of filming, but that's what you get when you want convenience as opposed to a huge bag of great video gear!

I'd been playing about with This is Goodbye in Logic to just learn more of the advanced tools in it, as I'd already recorded this song for an EP years ago (and was never truly happy with it as I didn't have any production input- just sat and played guitar and sang) and could have picked another song to record, but it felt right to pick this one. Pretty happy with how the new demo turned out. I'm changing the vocal lines slightly and have come up with some fantastic harmonies (well I think they're fantastic, I suppose it's debatable) to put in the last choruses.

Anyway. This is the video. I used a really basic colour matte with an opacity of about 15% to add in a great orangey yellow tinge to it, giving it an almost nostalgic look.

Burn Like Water

Hi. I haven't blogged in a while for a few reasons. Mostly because no one bothered to read it and those that did were my friends who heard it in person anyway. I've also renewed my obsession with audio and although I've vastly tweaked my Burn Like Water vocals and guitars, they have not changed in the video version. I'd like to redo the video so that it is a little more exciting and a lot more "live" instead of done on green screen. Finally, I've been busy storing up multiple folders worth of rejection emails from employers who are very happy to point out that they want experience but whose companies do not bother to offer work experience or internships. This nonsense has got to stop. But anyway, that's a diatribe for another blog.

I uploaded the final version on to YouTube a while ago, but never got around to actually linking a blog to it. So I'll do that now.

Annoyingly it keeps the tag on it, but you can see it on YouTube without the tags if you search Phoebe Ashmore. You can also see my other video, This is Goodbye, that I made in one day on a trip to Brisbane. It was filmed exclusively on a blog type mini camcorder- the Kodak zX1. I'm ok with how this whole thing turned out. It taught me valuable lessons regarding how to handle myself when the project falls to bits. Let's just say crying DOES help, it's almost cathartic in a way and lets you let go of the emotions you've built up from frustrations. It also lets you move on with the project. So don't ever deny someone having a bit of a teary about their work. Especially if it's such a personal piece, like mine was. That song is about a really hard break up for me and although I wished I hadn't used it many times over the course of the project, I'm glad I did because it helped me get over the break up in a twisted kind of way.