#### A week ago I shot my first music video of 2021!
And it’s for an absolutely belting track from **Chris Catalyst**.

It was weird to be back in the *performance* music video scenario after such a long time.
I felt like I had forgotten how to do anything - and so did Chris - but quickly my experience and instinct kicked in, and I was rushing around like normal setting things up and figuring out my priorities. It felt like old times again. Pre-pandemic.

These are lights I chose for this video shoot.
I had a specific vision in mind and planned out the visuals around the versus and chorus.

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It was a ‘neon’ inspired video. That’s what informed the lighting style an tone of the video atleast. There’s not a whole head of neon in there, but I was drawn to the idea of deep vibrant reds and blurred out lines of light. I wanted it dark in tone with patches of lights.
**I bought a few remote controlled LED ‘neon’ style panels (above) which worked brilliantly.**

They’re super versatile and can run through the rainbow of colours and brightness at the push of a button.
Plus they last up to 12 hours on their internal rechargeable battery. Very handy to put up anywhere.

This is the first video I’ve directed and shot on a **RED** camera too. The image from the camera is beautiful and super versatile.
The unit and lenses actually belongs to Tom, an amazing videographer who I enjoy collaborating with on projects like this.

We used it in a whole different heap of ways from a gimbal/mini-jib combo (on a force mobile control setting) to use on a slider with an awesome probe lens, to simply the gimbal performing 360 barrel rolls.

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Looking back we really did achieve an awful lot in a one day shoot. The edit is 90% done with only a few minor tweaks to make, including colour grade work.
It happy with how it’s turned out and I look forward to sharing it!

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I love working on great songs from underground artists like this.
It’s an organic and artistic process, and always fulfilling to be a part of.

Cheers for reading, @ashtv.