SCOTTISH D.I.Y : ShortsFest

This next commission came from young Hashim, who had seen my first installment of Scottish D.I.Y. He was  putting on a two day festival in Glasgow with bands from all over the UK. This made all the more impressive by the fact that, when I say 'young Hashim' I mean it, he wasn't even old enough to legally attend the festival he was putting on. The venue didn't know that though!

Hashim, looking (and being) really young.

This was quite obviously going to be a big undertaking so I once again employed the help of my friend Pawel Kuncewiz and his fancy shamancy Canon Mk2. Pawel and I tried to get as different footage from each other as possible, one of us would be on the band from the stage and the other from the crowd etc. We had a laptop set up in the backstage area with our external hard drives connected so whenever we ran out of space on our SD cards we could ran back and download our stuff onto them and swap for our spare SD. On the whole filming went pretty well. 

Pawel being dreamy.

For the intro of this video I wanted to show just how many bands were playing this festival, but I really tried to make each clip actually fit with the music. I tried to sync up the vocalist of the band with the vocals on the music and the strumming of the guitars etc. 

This film was pretty well received in the hardcore/punk community and has been featured on various blogs.