#7 Lights, camera.....

So last time I mentioned that I was going to be off to Cornwall to record a music video. Last weekend we did exactly that. A friend of mine called Lee came up with a great idea for a video for "Shipwrecks". As such whilst we were in the studio recording the new EP we also put down a new version of Shipwrecks to be used in the video. It's a bit bigger than the previous recording I tell thee! Strings and all etc. It seemed a bit pointless to put Shipwrecks on the new EP as it was on the previous one, so Shipwrecks is going to be released as a single at the beginning of next year. We're then looking to release the EP shortly after that.

So how was it? It was awesome. No stress and everything just seemed to go right. When Lee came to me with a location idea I new straight away that fate was sticking it's nose into our business. The location (between Launceston and Tavistock) had a massive influence on Shipwrecks so for Lee (who was unaware of this at the time) to go off and find the "perfect filming location" slap bang in the middle of those two places was ridiculous. The cottage was utterly huge the surrounding area was beautiful. A perfect place to get away from it all. We've all already started planning a return trip. ;-)

Knowing that the next day was going to be a long one, we sorted out room allocations, bought supplies and had a nice meal courtesy of Ben & Paulo before getting an early night. Saturday was indeed a long day. We were up by 8am, moving the furniture around and getting make up done etc. Yes, I did say "getting make up done". It's amazing what an HD camera will show up so you need to be prepared. ;-) We were filming until around 9/10pm. It's mad when you think that all a whole days hard work will be condensed in 4ish minutes of actual footage. We had a little "wrap up" party as the scenes we had to do the next day were all fairly easy and some of the guys would have to leave Sunday night.
Ben, the drunken genius that he is decided that at around 6am he should make sandwiches for everyone so that we all had something to eat when we went to film the beach scenes. He also laid the table in preparation for breakfast (despite nearly missing it). He's nice like that you see. Captain fate wasn't finished with us yet it seemed as on the Sunday we kinda lost track of time filming the last bits at the house and were in danger of losing the light to film the final scene. When we got to the beach we were treated to the most beautiful sunset to see let alone film with. Perfectly timed.

Bude Beach

Big thanks to all the team Lee (director and creative genius), Ian (Photography and visual genius), Sophia (Demon and Flame stick genius), Helen (Evil Ex and Lion King genius), Paulo (Catering and drum genius), Evie (Nice new girl and Make up genius) & Ben (Acting coach and drunken genius) for all their hard work. It was good fun and it couldn't have been done without you. :-)

Keep an eye here or on the Facebook page (www.facebook.com/AaronDouglasMusic) for release news.

In other news my Analogman King of Tone pedal turned up this week. There's a 9/10 month waiting list for these pedals due to demand and the fact that the guy that makes them refuses to go down the "factory produced" road. It's nice knowing that you've bought something that hasn't been put together by a robot. Anyway it sounds epically good so i've finally been able to put my other pedal board together. Roll on the full band practices!

Oof.

Anywho, that's how for now. See ya on the flip side.

Laters

Aaron