(ie. Hello Tom)
Thursday, April 28, 2011 at 10:18AM This week's blog is something we've dragged up from the vast archive of emails we get from people asking if we'd like to shoot a music video for them. Don't get us wrong, we love shooting music promos, always striving to make something amazing and we're pretty good at making small budgets go a VERY long way. Stitchthat, by our very nature, have a DIY ethic. "What? How much?! Mate, we could make that ourselves with a biro casing, half a pack of Wrigleys Extra, five plastic cups and some gaffer tape. Yeah, a hammer. Hammer it together. Done."
But I digress. We recently had an email from a guy looking for some video wickedness to go with his new single, self-funded of course, and asked us to get involved. Sweet, sounds goo... Oh, keep reading the email.
"Dear Sir,
I viewed through your website and recorgnized that your company is one of the best video companies in London for shooting music videos. I am eager to develop my skills and promote one of my songs via the internet- Youtube and would like to use your company for my video shoot."
Flattery will get you everywhere fella. Hear that London? This dude just said we're the best. Don't even bother searching for another production company, he's already found the best and it's us.
"I've done three singles at the moment. I the moment I promote them via myspace and youtube."
Awesome, let's smash this first vid and he's got two more to follow, guaranteed cert we'll work those too.
"Attached above is my storyboard.
Thank you for your time and consideration,
Z."
Yes, he's done STORYBOARDS. I love this guy, even if he does use the number '4' as a replacement for the perfectly adequate and not exactly long word 'for' as his artist title. It is in the context '4soul' though, maybe we'll give him that.
Slide 4, already we can hear the CSI Miami 'YEEEEEAAAAAAAAHHHH!' and Caruso delivering scorching puns about Kanye
This is probably my favourite one of the lot. Slate 1 and 2 talks you through how to make a phonecall to your girlfriend, once you've got passed the fact she doesn't actually remember your name and just lists off the first one that came into her head. She may as well have rung up and said "Hi male counterpart, who at some point was given a fairly average name, for example, Tom, how are you?" He doesn't even need to get angry about it, just respond. A shrug will do, she won't even know you did it, but you did respond, and that'll annoy her. Perfect.
Slide 2 here lets us, the best production company in London, decide which way we want the camera to pan. I vote from the left, everytime. Always looks better panning from the left. Clearly here our silent phone shrug has narced the missus, ie. Stephanie, right off. She leaves to go meet her mates, do some shopping, who knows. You just bought her lunch, was only a cheap cafe too so no wonder she's leaving. The poignant empty chair at the end totally signifies this empty relationship. Damn, Z is one hell of a director. We all know that ie. Tom has gone to the pub with his mates though for an afternoon of crisps and sweet sweet pints of Red Stripe in the sun. Sunglasses on, of course. Yeeeeeeaaaaaaahhhh!
Whilst writing this, I just noticed this guy scanned this on a pretty hench HP Scanjet. 5590 model to be precise. Design classic. I remember my mates Dad used to have one of these and we'd use it all the time in his office to photocopy homework to take home and rewrite up and pretend it was yours.
We replied to him, obviously. Never let a potential client hang waiting on your response, specially when he needs to release "That's The Way It Is" out to his fanbase. Sadly, this is not a cover of 2Pac, that would've been sick. Z mentioned the budget is about the same price you can buy a 4-door G reg Volvo 740 with 160k on the clock for from AutoTrader. So not ideal, but as we said, we can make budgets go far and have a great producer to do this. So Z, when you thinking to shoot this and do you need back-up dancers grinding on the bonnet of the royal blue saloon we're gonna spend your budget on? Schedule is pretty busy but we can make something work...
"The song is about 3minutes long and doesn't need back-up dancers etc. I'm free on Mondays and Friday mornings. I hope this can help. Thanks."
Unfortunately, Monday wasn't good for us, and Friday morning we had a meeting booked in. Sheeeeeiii-. Next time Z, next time.
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