Following producing the clip for Soar with Sarah Robinson we were asked back to work with her on her new single, Only Love I Know. The song has racked up over 50,000 views in it's first month. We shot the clip over two days with a crew of two, myself and Stephen Burge primarily in an apartment in Northbridge as well as at locations around Perth City including Scarborough Beach and Elizabeth Key. Tech Specs: Shot on Red Scarlet-X in 4k WS. Zeiss Duclos Modded ZF lenses and Sigma [...]

In this blog I'm not going to get into the 'film making' side of things - camera operation, lighting, directing, editing, grading etc. What I will do is try to give a sense of the time and organizing that goes into making a clip like this. If you're looking to get a music video produced, you'll hopefully find this educational. You can read Nat Pearson's perspective in her behind the scenes blog here. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M9lBJP_O604 Nat Pearson Artist and Producer and Casting Director What do I mean by that? Nat [...]

Not long after seeing the music video of ‘She’ we made for Perth band MSCL (My So Called Life) Nat Pearson got in touch with us and we set up a meeting. What initially started as one music video soon became two as Nat would be releasing two tracks – ‘Senseless’ and ‘Impressive Lies’ at the same time. After an initial meet and greet with myself and Shane, Nat and I threw ideas back and forth over email for both Impressive Lies and Senseless. I’ll just talk about Senseless [...]

We are very proud of this music video. It's much more than that, very special and very close to many people's hearts. We feel privileged to help bring Tayla's song and message to the world through the beautiful voice of Katie O'Donnell. Dean Butler and Shane Piggott with Katie O'Donnell Words from Katie: "On the Inside (Tayla's Song - Butterfly Edition) began as a poem, written by Tayla Hancock, who was just 16 when she lost her battle with cancer. Tayla's words were put to music by [...]

You might be interested in this blog if: You're a My So Called Life fan, you liked or didn't like the clip and wanted to know how it got made, you're a Perth or Western Australian... or Australian... or Earth based band or artist wanting to know how we collaborate with bands, artists and musicians on music videos and what the process can entail. THE IDEA TAKING SHAPE This clip began with myself meeting separately with Anthony Cormican, Chris Reeve and Mike Nayar from My So Called life and [...]

For a while I'd been feeling that I wasn't getting out and shooting enough, spending too much time in front of my computer editing, prepping as well as more mundane business stuff. Although I feel there's certain things I can do well with a camera, there's always area's where I'm lacking, inexperienced, don't know what I'm doing etc... There's always room for improvement. Anyway I believe that with any skill in film-making we improve with practice. Along with watching plenty of films and reflecting honestly on our own work [...]

Dean and I met with Holly in December 2011. We had received a copy of her CD and were really impressed with what we heard. Holly was interested in trying something different for her debut clip. We identified two songs she would be interested in making videos for and chose Chocolate Overdoses for the first clip. After discussing our ideas Holly brought up the concept of the walk of shame for a girl after a night out/fling for Chocolate Overdoses. I knew a lot of night filming would be [...]