Looking for a venue in which to shoot a music video

MilanPan!c

Any thoughts? Any offers?

It has to be a venue (as there's a narrative concept).

We have an "in," potentially, at The Village, but thought I'd ask around anyway.

Absolutely no budget to rent the venue... Sorry about that.

Can probably shoot the venue in a way that gives it a bit of free publicity.

Thanks in advance.

Note:

You can hear our music by clicking on the links in my signature. The video is for the song Photograph, which was re-recorded at Windmill Lane.

MilanPan!c

Gonna bump this for all the folks coming back from holiday.



If you do help us you can also be in the video...

Zendali

What about The Sugar Club? On my last visit there I was struck by how spread-out the seating was and even with a hundred punters, the place would give the illusion of a stuffed venue.

There`s a spacious stage and the sound rig was excellent, though I know that`s irrelevant to a music video as you`ll be overdubbing your music video with a studio recording.

They also have a movie screen at the rear of the stage as I understand the venue was once an art-house cinema screening French and Italian movies. So there`s a bit of history and soul to the place.

What`s the narrative and can you post a link to the song, so that techie dunces like me can just click on the link and the song plays? Then we`ll all throw in our tuppence worth and give ourselves a creative challenge as to how the video should pan out.

I`d be up for that if anyone else is as well? You can disregard all our ideas or take some of them on board, it`s your call. Meantime we can dream of fulfilling our true calling as music video directors

MilanPan!c

Hey Z!

Good to see you back on Boards!

So the song is Photograph.

Here's a link to the home demo on Soundcloud.

If you go to our MySpace page it's the third song down.

Just for you Z - Click and listen via youtube!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zUoEYUoHd80

The narrative is not hugely exciting, but I think it'll be cool.

The idea is that the singer Elaine will be working her day job (not her real day job) singing the verses, but as the chorus approaches she'll head through the back door of the shop/pub/restaurant/etc. and instead of being in a stockroom/office/kitchen/etc., she'll walk onto a stage where the band is already playing, and sing the chorus. As the ends the camera will follow her back into her job, etc.

I LOVE the Sugar Club, but I seriously doubt they'd let us use it for free... though maybe... I don't know... I'd first need to figure out who the owner manager is.



If you have any strings to pull, pull 'em.

So, whatcha think?

It seems pretty cool for ZERO budget.

This is the song we recorded at Windmill Lane, btw., so we thought we might as well, do our best to represent. A film maker approached us about it, but he also has no budget, well, no real budget.

Zendali

On topic, I caught part of an interesting clip on the radio this morning discussing the demise of the music video. Apparently over the past few years, bands, solo artists and their respective labels - faced with ever-declining revenue from recordings - reviewed their spending and came to the conclusion that music videos are a luxury too far.

Gone are the days of the Spielberg-directed music promo, where a spend of 150 grand on a 4-minute video was quite commonplace. Budgets became severely tightened and the music videos/promos became less Hollywood sheen and more DIY film college. As one of the contributors to that radio clip said: "Look at MTV. A few years ago it was wall-to-wall music videos, now it`s wall-to-wall reality tv programmes for teens".

There are still tv channels offering blanket coverage of music videos 24/7, (such as MTV Dance, VHI etc) but the contributors to that radio clip were saying that these channels are outmoded and have declining viewerships. Today`s music fan wants to be proactive with the (music) videos they watch and isnt prepared to slump in front of a telly and endure a channel`s playlist.

As one of the contributors said, there`s a whole new generation of 12 to 15 year old music fans who`ve never watched a music video away from their laptops and the very notion of watching a music video on tv would be almost alien to them. So youtube is the platform of choice for future music fans and because of the high data compression and small screen, you dont need awesome camera gear to get a result.

But the main thrust of that radio discussion is how music video is now making a comeback, but in a different guise. Gone is the lavish luxury of an indulgent and sumptuous video and the emphasis now is on an act`s stage performance. If the act conveys this online, then the stay-at-home music fan in front of his/her laptop will get up off their butts and go see the act performing live.

As regards The Sugar Club, I`ll have a word with their management and see what I can do. Of all the small to medium sized Dublin venues, it seems to be the venue that could best lend itself to a music video and I`ve been around the rest of them. Good song there with "Photograph" though I`m sure it`s in the premature stages of development and has a way to go yet on the mixing desk.

MilanPan!c

Thanks a HUGE amount Z!

So generous!

I saw Loney Dear (a brilliant Swedish band - check them out) at the Sugar Club a while back and it was amazing!

As for the recording, yes, that version is the ver I made in my kitchen The real one sounds MASSIVE!

Re: videos - absolutely. That's why the choruses need to be live, but I think if you don't make it relate-able, at least this is my opinion, you lose a bunch of potential fans, thus the idea for the verses.

Thanks again!!