Thanks for watching. I hear what you're saying. This is not so much a "music video" as such but more a kind of documentary of the recording of the song. It's going to be part of a "making of" DVD. I will be shooting interviews etc.

The studio is also quite small so I have to work with what I have.

Glad you enjoyed the music though.

Cheers

Peter.

nicely done!

[I]"This is not so much a "music video" as such but more a kind of documentary of the recording of the song."[/I]

OK but it's not documenting, try cutting to before someone plays a part to mix it up a bit, try to give the visuals a rhythm of their own.

Bob.

Thanks for the comment dlion.

Cheers.

Loved the music. But how did you play all those instruments at the same time? (Wink)

The Superman tee-shirt has to go. A black tee-shirt or similar for both players would have been less visually distracting.

Regards,

Kimberly

Thanks, Kimberley, glad you enjoyed the music.

Yep, that's Larry. Nothing's gonna stop Larry from wearing funny T shirts.

As I said earlier, it is what it is.

Thanks for watching and for the comments.

Cheers,

Peter.

Agree with Bob, like the music, but visuals could be a bit more dynamic. How did you afford Phil Colins on drums? :-)

The music and recording is fine; straight cuts are an acceptable way to do a music video, perhaps moreso on location than a studio shoot. That said, the timing of the cuts didn't seem intuitive, and distracted when they occurred too early or late for a natural transition with the music.

I do mine in a multicam editing environment, and punch in the camera cuts in real time. Then a little tweaking and everything usually turns out fine.

The visuals worked for me as a 'documentary', but not as a music entertainment video per se. Scenes too repetitive - need more shot angle variations .

Music was great.

Where did you get those giant mutant SM57s ?!!!

geoff

I too enjoyed the music along with the opening.

I enjoyed the music. The Keyboard shots are orange cast and look like they were cut from a different shoot and it comes across as such in the cut.

“living for the moment” ........and the superman t-shirt........ok I can see it now. :)

I hear what everyone says and appreciate the feedback.

These shots were shot at different times during the recording of the album. I wanted to eventually make a DVD of the recording process showing the various parts on the various instruments.

As I'm the one playing virtually all the instruments (except drums) it was a very difficult job.

These videos were never meant to be aired as "music videos" where everything is "cut to the beat etc" but just a visual peek at the actual playing of the instruments.

I have quite a few musician friends following me on various social media platforms and they have expressed an interest in having a look at how and where the various parts in the songs were played. This is why it was edited in this way.

I am working on the things like camera movement etc but obviously need help with extra people etc.

I am in the process of filming interviews explaining certain aspects of the songs and recordings which will also "sandwich" inbetween the songs.

The different colour hues etc are part and parcel of the tracks and yes, they do look like they weren't part of the same shoot because they weren't.

I adopted the approach that I used because for the DVD, any footage is better than no footage.

I do appreciate everyone's feedback and it is something that I'll look at for future "in swtudio shots".

The main thing for me is of course that most of the viewers seemed to enjoy the music.

Cheers,

Peter.

Just to clarify, we want to see and hear what "Living for the Moment" means to you.

you are a good musician I thought your style and composition was good. You express yourself audibly with music very well ...so now do the same visually
That is the shots are good, but more shots from different angles.

more important is what does "Living for the Moment" what does it mean to YOU. Express that visually to compliment the audio.

For example for some it means being reckless with their lives others like some of the female gender it means living for the day you get married, still walk and breath after that day but not really living etc..etc.

Absolutely Rory. I agree with you - that is if I was actually doing a "music video". I decided to rather go down the route of just a visual documentary of the recording process.

I do appreciate your comments about the music etc but I am a little hamstrung trying to capture a certain mood when trying to record the instruments at the same time.

If I decide to make an actual music video on location etc and using footage to portray the mood I want, that's a whole different story. As of now though I just want to get the "making of " DVD finished.

It is something that I might want to look at in the future.

Thanks for your feedback. It is appreciated.

Cheers,

Peter.

Wow! Great job on the audio production. The mix sounds great thru a Steinberg UR44 -> Mackie mixer -> Mackie HR824 monitors. All EQ set flat. Listened to Lightning Strikes too, really liked the touch of rock organ in this track.

The only thing I can nit-pick is the bass drum is just a smidge low but nothing a little low end EQ can't fix.

Changing the Low EQ setting on the HR824 to 37Hz (Normal) setting brought up the low end a bit though.

I'd be interested to see the instructional of the recording.

BTW, How do you get YouTube to play back good quality audio at low resolution settings?

I've found that low resolution settings plays back audio very compressed and I have to tell people to play back my vids in high res 720p

Thanks, Byron.

What part of the recording are you interested in? If you can be more specific I can give you more detail.

Cheers.

Peter.

Well I liked it. I thought the keyboard lighting was great and broke up the sameness of the other scenes. I was fine with the cuts, but I would have reduced them. Since your playing most of the instruments, you don't need to cut away to every lead riff. As a musician you want to feature every little riff, but people watching aren't as interested. It would have been nice to spend more time on the acoustic guitar and percussionist.. I agree with Kimberly about the superman T-shirt. Install Mocha Pro and you can remove that. By the way the audio quality was first rate. Overall it was excellent.

PJH, I meant that I'd be interested to see your documentary of the recording.

Oh just another minor note, while reviewing the video trying to figure out how you got such good quality audio at low resolution, I noticed that the cymbals at 7:10 are very very faint and I can't or can barely hear them even w/ the HI EQ 12kHz on the mixer turned up.

I still think overall the audio and video production was excellent!