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What aspect of video production is the most difficult?
Hi Mona and Lisa
Hope you are both doing great. Did you guys recover from that half marathon last weekend with ease? It was so fun to watch. It looked like you both conquered it like pros. Someone like myself, I think I would have taken a week or more to recover! Or maybe a trip down to the pharmacy for muscle relaxant 🙂 🙂
My question is about your videos. In Vancouver I see them doing a lot of filming of movies, often closing off entire blocks, and the amount of prep and work to just capture a few seconds or minutes of footage takes days and look like a monumental effort for that perfect smooth magical result. When you show us some of your “behind the scene” footages of one of your videos, it makes me to appreciate just how much work goes into it to produce a few minutes of musical bliss on the screen like you do. And I must add that some of your videos and the impact you bring across are better and more thoughtful than most of those professional Hollywood mega-$$$ produced music videos of the past and curent.
I have a kind of a two part question. When producing one of your remarkable videos, what aspect of it’s production is the most difficult or time consuming? Is it in the pre-film prep, actual film day filming/process, or post film production in the studio, or all of the above equally? In searching the archives Jacki asked the question which video was the most challenging to do and you mentioned Nothing is In Vain. Has that changed since then?
Thanks for all the continuing joy you give us with all your various activities at the Club, and all the best to you both and Michaela and Rudolf!
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Hello Jung,
Whoops, sorry that it took us a while to get back to this. Good thing is, our legs had more than enough time to recover since 😛
“what aspect of its production is the most difficult or time consuming? Is it in the pre-film prep, actual film day filming/process, or post film production in the studio, or all of the above equally?”
There isn’t really one answer as it always depends on the project.
We often try out a lot of different ideas and storyboards, effects and looks before we decide on what to go with. So the pre-film prep and planning can often be the most time consuming part overall.
Then for videos like “nothing is in vain”, “I wanna kiss you” or even “the wide wide land” it was definitely the post production that was the most time consuming.
Simple studio videos of us recording a song are usually quite simple and fairly straight forward to both film and edit. So really, it totally depends. We often get inspired by techniques we see being used in a different context or when a new piece of equipment or software comes out.
We usually follow the motto of not wanting to repeat ourselves, especially when it comes to our bigger productions (with the exception of things like our Duo Sessions Series). But even when we keep things simple, we don’t want to feel like we’re getting into a creative trot or like we’re playing it safe. So the workflow also changes for each of these projects 🙂
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Hi Lisa
No problem! I know you are very busy doing all the wonderful things you do for us all, and the wait is always worth it. ?
Your motto of never repeating yourselves is inspiring me to live and do things that way. Repetition makes life bland.
Your videos are the best around in the industry and love them all from the simple to your big productions.
Thanks so much for your detailed explanations. Enjoyed reading it as always.
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Jung
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