Caswell - Music Video

Caswell came at me with two ideas, one much harder to do than the other, but it sounded better and allowed me to be more creative so I said yes to the harder one. After finding the perfect location [a cool bar in Ipswich, Suffolk] and a date locked in, shoot day had come around quickly.

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I knew I wanted to get full creative here especially with lighting, I was using a Godox ML60Bi with a soft box and boom arm as my main light source, to light up the band, drums and main scenes. I was then using the Neewer LED RGB Panels for some colours to the scenes and to create moody atmosphere. 

 

Shooting with the Sony A7Siii and a combination of lenses including the Tamron 17-28mm 2.8 and Sony 35mm 1.8. Having it rigged up in a handheld setup I knew I wanted to create a more free hand and shakey look to the video. Handheld alone is good for bands and live music as it allows you to bounce with the artist/band ensuring the shots look more natural and less robotic is it was on a gimbal. There weren't any walk-through or tracking shots needed so a gimbal wasn't required. 

 

The A7Siii is great in low light allowing me to shoot 12,800 ISO in S-log3. We shot all the solo parts in the morning before lunch and then in the afternoon we did the full band bits just before the final shots with a full crowd. 

The venue was rather small, but this wasn't a problem, sometimes it can be hard to get people to attend music videos so having a not so large space made it easier and made it look busier than what it was.