Friday 27 January 2012

Filming at Mint: OUDF404 where filming can take me



The club Mint in Leeds has been a pioneer in it's own minimal sound around Leeds for a long time. Becoming a huge out selling venue which is soon to launch it's second club in Leeds the Mint Warehouse. I have attended the last few Jungle Jam nights back before Christmas and thought they were amazing. So as you can see it brought me great joy watching this promo video and reliving the night through this exceptional piece.
The only was to start off reviewing this edit is how well it is shot. The choice in len's (varying from wide angle's to 50 mill's) and the cinematography of the shots help bring the club to life in this short yet astonishing picture.

The video starts with a brief introduction displaying the Jungle Jam image on screen. The music is prominent in the introduction and is heating up towards the drop. The song drops from the intro and wastes no time into kicking everything off conveying a senesce of madness in the air which has me raring to go back. The editing is on quirky dropping most scenes to the fast breaking pace of the Jungle music. The mix of fast choppy scenes in the strobe light capturing the extraordinary lights in Mint mixed with the slow motion of people dancing to what seems to be the music in the video gives the club a crazy and careless atmosphere which many people in the target audience would be longing for in a night out.

The main reason why i've chose to review this piece is me and Tom Bone are hoping to be filming for Mint club in Leeds. Before Christmas we were asking to both join a amateur upcoming film group called BiTG they have since produced a video at Mint on a absent minds night -


I am very excited to start work with this group and see where it takes me!

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