Passenger - The Wild Ones
[ Posted by James Harton ]
Hi all.
I've been very busy lately working on a number of projects, but the one I am most proud of is our entry for the Orcon Iggy Live Competition embedded below:
Passenger, by The Wild Ones. from James Harton on Vimeo.
The song was recorded and mixed in about 5 hours using Cubase. The drum track is synthetic everything else is real instruments. There is two rhythm guitar parts, played by myself and Matthew, a bass part played by me, lead vocals are Justin and backing vocals by Matthew and I. Justin also added a lead guitar part which made the recording feel much more dynamic.
We were able to shoot the video on the same evening, finishing up around midnight. Due to some unforeseen issues with the DV camera we were using I had a great deal of trouble getting the video off the camera, and wound up having to capture it using an old bt848 video capture card, meaning that quality is a lot lower than what I would have liked, but there's not much to be done about it now.
We shot five takes of the video, three from static angles and two hand-held takes. I used the excellent Kdenlive video editor to sync each take with the audio track and edit the cuts between angles. I also make a lot of use of the Pan and Zoom and Rotate and Skew effects to alter each shot so that it looks like there are a lot more camera angles than there really are.
I would call it a success and now Matthew and I are considering working together to record more music. You can become a fan of The Wild Ones on Facebook and we'll keep you updated on what we're working on.
