Anne Marie Hurst and the Skeletal Family shoot - Clockwork Eye Productions

My freind Danny asked if I could help with 2 days of shooting for a band called the Skeletal Family in a warehouse in Keighley. I figured I would learn some new skills in set design, lightning and camera work so I said yes.

We filmed 13 music videos all in the same room but the aim was to get every music video looking different using a mix of camera technique, lighting, a smoke machine and set design.


We overcame this problem by using quite a lot of close ups for a start. We redesigned the room several times. For one shoot we covered the floor with candles and shot with one camera from the floor up and one from above waist height forward.


For one video we shot from the ceiling down with close ups of the band behind. For one we backlit the band with powerfull floor standing lights called redheads and filled the room with smoke and so forth...

I learnt how to use a hand held HD camera and about white balancing.
White balancing is where you film a white piece of paper in the lighting you are going to be working under and press the white balance button on the camera, this tells the camera that under this light, this is white.

Smokey room, red lighting + candles

Hanging lights from the ceiling, using a crossbar and climbing hooks.

The powerful Redheads backlighting

Danny between the two red heads.