Fitzgerald's Video :: 04. 1.07
Kadandulu, Fitzgerald Simfukwe - The funniest videos are a click away
The Fitzgerald Project :: 04. 2.07
Below is a no-budget video I shot for a reggae artist last February. I met him two years ago on my first trip to Malawi. He was walking around a cafe selling his cassette and I bought a couple as souvenirs. I ran back into him last November and now I'm his number one supporter. Malawians are generally very nice people but this guy is NICE, super warm guy. In exchange for the video, he's agreed to let me use his music for my documentary, which I'm really excited about. This video will also run on Malawian TV where no-budget is the standard. The videos aren't sleek, but they charm the hell out of me, like Spike Jonze doing Fatlip before it was postmodern. This one was shot in a day and a half with about 25 dollars. I rented the radio he's carrying to use as playback, so he's actually listening to the song on that player as he sings along.
Fitzgerald's record rocks, so anybody who wants a copy, I'm selling them and sending the money back to Fitz so he can make his next record. He only needs about 300 dollars to do the whole recording. He writes a lot of songs about poverty, which he knows all about; this song is about a bird that's had its nest destroyed. Anybody interested can just drop me an email at cykuck@gmail.com, ten bucks plus shipping. The image here is a new CD cover I made for him from a picture taken the night of the video shoot.
Ridgeline :: 04. 5.07
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Below are a few more shots from the Malawi trip and under those is the music video I did for Fitzgerald.
Been prepping all the footage for the edit, its a monster job moving around and managing that much information. 80 hours of video is nearly a terabyte of info, it's huge. My deck bugged out today, hopefully its just the heads, but I'm dead in the water till Monday when I get it back from the repairman.
I won't be sending out the email announcement for a while, don't want to wear anybody out with spam, but in the meantime I'll still be making posts here and there about my progress. I'd like to write a little about the process, there seems to be a huge misunderstanding about the way documentaries are made. It's a common misconception that you just follow people around with the camera then its done. Docs are complicated, very complicated. More on that later.
Enjoy the pictures, I sure enjoyed taking them. Looking forward to the next thing which is coming soon...
Production Budget Outline, and Post Workflow :: 04.22.07
I've gotten a lot of feedback from various people who are curious about the making of a film like this, so here's an outline of the budget and a postproduction workflow. This doesn't take the creative process into account, I'm still working on that.
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