c.v. - VIDEOGRAPHY AND VIDEO EDITING

Some of the VIDEO projects that I've worked on

CAMP HILL STATE INFANTS AND PRIMARY SCHOOL, Brisbane, Australia

I teach classroom music, ukulele, guitar, and take two choirs at this school near my home in Brisbane. In 2018 I started a project to develop a new school song, partly as a songwriting exercise for some of the older students. We workshopped rap lyrics for the 4 verses based around the 4 core values of the school - courtesy, consideration, cooperation, commitment. I wrote a chorus around the school’s motto - Together We Achieve. In 2020, for many reasons, including a lack of performance opportunities due to the COVID-19 restrictions, I made this video with the Senior Choir, with contributions from many other students. The lyrics for the 4 verses are based on contributions and phrases from student workshops in 2018-2019 and formalised by me.

PONSONBY PRIMARY SCHOOL - AUCKLAND, NEW ZEALAND

I lived in Auckland between 2010 & 2014.  Through my sons' school I met the music teacher, Mary Cornish, powerhouse of the Auckland (and NZ national) choral, music education and ukulele scenes.  Through the connection with Mary, I started directing a small choir at the primary school in the next suburb to where we lived.  For many years, Mary each year conducted a massed choir event at the Auckland Town Hall (which I continued to be involved with for several years after moving to Brisbane) and my school choir was one of the choirs that contributed to Mary’s massed choir (about 450 choristers).  Each year Mary's repertoire included a great selection of Pasifika, classical, pop, operatic and music theatre.  In my first year of involvement - 2012 - the pop song was Price Tag by JessieJ.  Apart from the combined choral experience, Mary's concerts always provided a wonderful opportunity for young soloists to front the massed choir.  Price Tag needed a soloist, so any school could put one up to audition.  My school held auditions, but not everyone was present at the first audition slot. At the second session, along came this quiet girl - Lauren, who absolutely blew the competition away. Having made the music-videos with Tutti in previous years (see below for more information about them), I thought, "Why not do one with my choir and this amazing soloist?" Making this video probably accounted for a week's full-time work for me - to answer a question that I'm often asked.

TUTTI ENSEMBLE AND MINDA INC.

I produced promotional, support material, documentary and archival DVDs for Tutti Ensemble and Tutti Arts;
music-videos directed and edited for Tutti Arts, animation (stop-motion, Adobe Flash and claymation) directed and edited for Tutti Arts Digitech (digital media program for young adults with intellectual disabilities) which I founded and ran for several years.
Client Abuse training video Personal Power Program and Personal Power - Easy English for Minda Inc. edited by Philip Griffin.
Tutti Rundle Lantern (outdoor large-scale screen) content for Adelaide City Council.
Oska Bright Festival 2011 - Folsom Prison Blues

The Tutti music-videos

A video clip made to fit a song we recorded for Aimee's CD -  that had been recorded the previous year.
2 mini-CDs (Aimee's and Jason Crowhurst's) were recorded on one afternoon in front of a live audience.
The video-clip was devised and shot on one day.
I did the camerawork, video editing, plus played the guitar and produced the recording.

Also from the same CD of Aimee's.
This time Aimee came up with the scenario and the casting.
I shot, video-edited, plus again played the guitar and produced the recording.

From the same live recording session that produced Aimee's CD, Jason recorded a mini-CD of his own.
Jason (who has never had any sight) came up with a very detailed scenario for this video, including casting.
If he'd had his way, we could have shot several different versions, such was the abundance of his ideas as to how to put it together!
Camera, direction, art-direction, green-screen, video editing, guitar, CD production by me.

From the same series of three mini-CDs as Jason's and Aimee's.
With Annika's we had the luxury of two recording sessions, and the sessions were in a controlled studio situation.
You'll see extensive (albeit fairly primitive) use of green-screen, and the video incorporates visual art created by Tutti's visual artists.
Camera, direction, art-direction, green-screen, video editing, guitar, CD production by me.

Following the mini-CD recording of 2007, Annika and I made a full-length CD in 2010 just before I moved to New Zealand.
That CD was entitled Colours and this is the title song.  However, before we recorded the CD, we did a version for this video.
It was recorded entirely using one microphone and my MacBookPro (which is gave me nearly 10 years of good service).
Annika had, with the help of Pat Rix (Artistic Director of Tutti) written this song about her early memories of colour.
Annika had some sight in her earliest years.  As her family lived some hours North of Adelaide, an eye-specialist that she was attending suggested her parents get a video camera to record her development, so that the specialist could see what Annika was up to at home in between visits to his practice.
Consequently, there was a massive amount of video material from Annika's infancy and early childhood, plus 15 huge photo albums.
To make this video, I went through and found bits of photos or video that helped tell the story of the song.
This was augmented by material newly shot and incorporated using green-screen techniques and the artwork of one of the Tutti visual artists.
Recording, guitar, direction, photography, videography, video-editing, green-screen etc by me.
Note, if you're watching the video, there's a tag right at the end - you need to stay quiet to hear it.

Over the couple of years that I ran the digital media program at Tutti (Digitech), we made several Christmas-themed videos incorporating animation and general Christmas messages of good will.
In 2009, I produced a Christmas CD featuring some of the repertoire from Tutti's legendary Christmas concerts and other new material.
Like Annika's Colours recording, this track was recorded by me, using one microphone and a M-Box mini on my MacBookPro.
This time however it was mixed by the highly excellent Quentin Eyers in his Q-the-music studio.
I played accordion, recorder, mandolin, guitar, bass, jaw-harp then directed, photographed, animated, video-edited etc the film-clip.

william e. green piano performance videos

I met William in Auckland at a meeting of the Auckland Lieder Group.  He was accompanying another singer and I was singing lieder accompanied by another pianist.  I was immediately struck by his musical integrity and obvious commitment to the music he was playing.  We hit it off and finished up performing together on various occasions, including a very enjoyable lunchtime recital of NZ and Australian art song at the Auckland City Library.  At some point William asked me to shoot and edit some videos of him playing piano pieces that he had either written or arranged, along with other NZ compositions.

audio recording, multi-camera video recording and video editing by me.

AUSTRALIAN EDUCATION UNION, SOUTH AUSTRALIA

Video-editing of Podcasts and Communication videos.

ORNITHOLOGICAL VIDEOS

The following websites contain ornithological video footage by me:

  • Internet Bird Collection (update 2020 - the IBC has now been incorporated into the Macaulay Library - eBird)
    for eBird media see ebird.org/media/catalog?userId=USER632826

  • ARKive - www.arkive.org (update 2019 - “the world's biggest encyclopaedia of life on Earth” is currently offline due to funding shortfall to keep the website alive)

MISCELLANEOUS PROJECTS

Contributed ornithological video to Landing in America, by John O’Brien, St Paul, Minnesota-based video artist. (n.b. at one stage this video was viewable on the internet, but as of April 2021 the link I had is broken and I can’t find it elsewhere.)