My creative life took yet another unexpected turn today when I found myself running around the Financial District in a "Snuggie" of all things - (in case you've missed the infamous infomercials: it's a fuzzy blanket with arms.) Today was part two of the Ukulele Music Video shoot that I unexpectedly signed on for last week.
Our motley crew convened at the Taz Cafe on Maiden Lane at 11:30 this morning for brunch before setting out to start shooting at the first location a block away. The song is that we were creating the live action for is called "Let's Give It To The Bankers" and so you might be able to imagine what it was we were doing hanging around Wall Street. The chorus of the song goes "We'll throw a shoe or two - we'll all shout 'Screw You!' and drive wooden stakes right through their hearts"
From that you might also be able to gather the type of actions we were filming around Manhattan. It was a lot of running around chasing blood-sucking Vampire Bankers, throwing shoes and then to top it off, driving wooden stakes into the sleeping Vampire Bankers' hearts.
They hired a make-up artist for the day to transform the Bankers into Vampires. They even rented a wooden coffin which we used at our second shooting location of the day in Uke's loft in Harlem. They really went all out for this!
Overall it was a pretty kooky experience, but it was pretty fun too. I'm eagerly awaiting the release of the song and the first cut of the music video. If all goes well I'll finally have something to put on one of those actors' reels I hear everyone talking about!
Saturday, March 7, 2009
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