It’s been years since I fooled around to make any sort of art video, and I realized that fact really saddens me since art video is how I came into this world in the first place!  I discovered this video while doing research on classical music blogs at work, and it really awakened me to this world I’ve been missing from.

Freedom Tunnel from Charles le Brigand on Vimeo.

Ever since I lived in London I’ve had this wisp of an idea to create art videos comprised of very short shots, edited very fast (as I love to edit) that portray the feelings of the city.  Looking back, I REALLY wished I had done this in London, as it’s such a dynamic, colorful and freaking exciting city, but doing a couple of these for Boston would be interesting.  Right now I have ideas for a day in the life of the city and the 9-5 drudgery.  I want these videos to be short, no more then 2 minutes max, and the main purpose is to make the viewer FEEL whatever the video is about. I love playing with emotions and video…it’s why I got into it in the first place.

London seems so long ago. There’s a lot I miss, especially my art video teacher Hope and Chris, the media guy at ASL. I won an award for art video that year and I feel like I’ve sorta let them down by not pursuing it. But then again, very few types of art actually pay the bills these days….especially in this economic climate. Oh well. At least I have a good job and I work with people I really like!

That being said, I MUST make an effort to do more video. Seriously, Eleanor. You only studied it for five years.

Yesterday was a pretty exciting day! From the Top, the non-profit where I work my day job, had their annual gala. This year was special because not only is it our 10th Anniversary, but we put on a show with the Boston Pops! I’d never seen them in concert before so watching last night was quite the treat, especially because I got to hear six amazingly talented young musicians play with them as we recorded our show #217 for radio broadcast!

But listening to great music was only one cool part. The best part about yesterday was that I got to help interview Keith Lockhart, Maestro and Conductor of the Boston Pops! This was quite an honor and meeting him in person was surreal. He gave us an amazing interview as well! If you’ve ever done interviews for camera before, you know that it can be quite tricky getting the interviewee to rephrase the question properly and speak in succient bytes that will be good for your videos. Keith. Was. A. Pro. In 30 minutes he gave us some amazing material with which to plug into a couple video promos. Awesome!

The other cool part about last night was that I got to help film two of the performers during the concert! I set the HVX200 we borrowed from Daniel up in the first balcony, and recorded 9-year-old Umi Garrett, pianist-extraordinaire, and Michelle Lee, tap dancing violinist. I used the FS-100, of course, because who wants to record to tape anymore?!

Once the videos are up I’ll link to them so you can see my handywork