Live, streamed and montage music videos produced by Carlow Digital
I believe that music videos are one of the great art forms and, while we haven’t made a lot of them, they are something we always enjoy working on. My earliest video experience was making videos for a band I was a member of, so I have experience on both sides of the camera.
For live band and performance music videos, we can field up to eight high definition and 4K cameras, operated by an experienced crew, guided by a headset communications system.
Entourage Wedding Band
Montage Video
This video was put together to showcase the wide ranging setlist of this superb Irish wedding band. Almost 50 emails were exchanged between singer and organiser extraordinare, Jenny Foster of Entourage, and ourselves prior to the shoot. Every aspect of the video – concept, location, staging, casting, costume and script – was discussed in detail before a single frame was shot.
Huge credit to the band for their endless patience, and to dancers and actors Nicole Kidd and Jason Hannon for their dedication and talent.
Live action | Actors/Dancers | SFX
The Prickly Pairs
Live-streamed performance montage
Recorded at the Association of Irish Musical Societies (AIMS) annual awards weekend in the INEC in Killarney, this video is a combination of The Prickly Pairs live-streamed performance and some live inserts from the show.
For videos like this, I edit the audio first to hear how the music will flow from track to track and to refine the length of the finished product. Only then do I start editing the picture.
Live Web Stream | Multi-Camera | Animated Titles | Montage | Remastered Audio
The Comhaltas Laois Folk Orchestra
The Dóchas Suite (Extracts)
Composed and conducted by Áine McGeeney, assisted by Colm Phelan, this performance of the Comhaltas Laois Folk Orchestra was videoed in the Dunamaise Arts Centre, Portlaoise, Co. Laois. It formed part of ‘The Journey’, on the opening night of the James Fintan Lalor Autumn School.
A multi-camera shoot using a range of operated high definition cameras and static 4K cameras. Sound is by Nick Anton.
Multi-Camera | Live performance | Studio edit
Music Generation Laois Harp Ensemble
Rising of the Harps
Composed by Catriona McKay and performed by the Music Generation Laois Harp Ensemble, under the direction of Harpist Siobhan Buckley accompanied by Catriona McKay. The members are Alannah Conroy, Lily Breslin, Cliona Mahon, Aisling Aherne, Maebh Áine Ní Dhufaigh, Ellen Dempsey, Aoife Corcoran and Aoife Buckley.
This was also part of ‘The Journey’, for the opening night of the James Fintan Lalor Autumn School.
A multi-camera shoot using a range of operated high definition cameras and static 4K cameras. Sound is by Nick Anton.
Multi-Camera | Live performance | Studio edit
Planet Dude
Performance montage
Sadly, now long disbanded, this video for the wonderful Planet Dude was put together at a time long before High Definition. It’s included here because I think the grainy look lends a certain authenticity and because I really liked the band.
I recorded the audio one Sunday afternoon in a veterinary supply shop, while the video was shot in a local hall using four par56 cans as lighting which we kept moving around to make it look like more!
The bass player was m.i.a. on the day of the shoot so someone’s girlfriend stood in for him. I think she was a much better choice.
Montage | Standard Definition | Edited live performance audio
Charity
Daddy Long Legs
From the sublime musical, Daddy Long Legs, comes this beautiful vocal and dramatic performance by Eoin Cannon.
Daddy Long Legs is the tale of Jerusha Abbott the “Oldest Orphan in the John Grier Home” (played by Róisín O’Sullivan) and her mysterious benefactor, Jervis Pendleton, who decides to send her to college to be educated as a writer. Required to write him a letter once a month, she is never to know the benefactor’s identity – so she invents one for him: ‘Daddy Long Legs’.
Multi-Camera | Live Recording | Studio Edit
I Couldn’t Know Someone Less
Daddy Long Legs
The wonderful and hugely-talented Róisín Sullivan as Jerusha Abbot, performing ‘I Couldn’t Know Someone Less’, from the Irish premiere of Daddy Long Legs.
This recording of the musical was streamed in March 2021 to universal and critical acclaim.
Multi-Camera | Live Recording | Studio Edit
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