JAZZ SMUGGLERS. OUR BEST VIDEO YET

Personnel are Andrew Batchelar, alto; Geoff Valenti trumpet; Dave Moore, guitar; Maria Ball, vocal; Vic Crowley, bass; Bob Savary, drums; John Winkler, keyboard.

We have honestly tried to make this one of the really good short videos you can find of a jazz band.

THE BRIEF
The brief to Callum Robertston was to make a video packed with movement. The sound is being heard only on a computer after all. The sound is a backing track.
Bands are notoriously difficult to film. There are amplifiers, music stands, mics, cables. They look a mess at a distance and the players are separated from each other. Ugh!
You can do it very well if you spend a lot of money on staging it, but we have only peanuts to spend.

HOW HE DID IT
Callum decided get the movement by using a lot of very short sequences, 1sec 2 secs with rapid cutting. He used close ups, reveals, he also added soft focus and slow motion to some sequences. It produces a huge variety of look. But he also showed one shot of the whole band at the end, and he got the front line smiling and enjoying themselves.

ANOTHER PROBLEM
The band plays a range of different styles, so we started with a full on jazz song by Bill Evans, called Funkaleroo, then we switched the sound track to our Maria singing a cool soft jazz version of a standard "It Could Happen to you"
We were worried about the rough jump, but I think the tension caused by this brings attention back to the video.

HOPE YOU LIKE IT.
We think that Callum did a brilliant job with this. An original talent. If you email me then I can give you his contact number. jazzsmugglers@yahoo.co.uk

John Winkler, Jazz Smugglers

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