The Standards - Where you go

This is the third time I worked with The Standards but this time it was a slighly different task. The band wanted a music video that could reflect their band presence on stage. They came up with the ideas of mashing up footage from all their tour into one music video. While working on their footage I felt that the result would be stronger if I also shot some more footage.

I went to Cosmic Cafe in December for one of their gig and shoot a few takes with a Panasonic AG-AF 100. These shots are important as most cameramen couldn't come too close on the stage, while I could. Editing was a bit challenging due to the different level of quality of the footage given but I definitely learn a new approach as I had around 7 hours of footage to cut down to 3 minutes and 40 sec...

Visuals for Ladytron live in Bangkok

Dudesweet, a Bangkok based party and event organizer contacted me in november 2011 to design and play visuals for the band Ladytron. They came to play at LED club, RCA on the 7th of December 2011. For this project, I teamed with the Wetcarpet studios, another VJ collective I work often with.




We decided that using the LED screen from the club was too bright and preferred to use projection instead. It was not an easy installation as we needed to install a screen behind the band with no budget.



We used my 12mx3m curtain that we fold 3 times and placed it right in front of the LED screen. We placed the projectors sideways and use a circle mask to hide the distortion from the projection.

From time to time we used the LED screen in the background, which could be seen as the curtain is semi-transparent. For the visuals we played a large array of mixed vintage videos with effects.

Stylish Nonsense - Ninja

For my final project for my MA in visual communication with Birmingham City University, I decided to move on to something more challenging. I explored the potential of using live concert and performance techniques to strengthen Music Video as an interactive media. Being a part-time Vijay in clubs and concert, I found it quite challenging to work on such approach as both music video and vijaying are giving a visual representation of music.

Being aware of the existing barrier between concert videos and music videos, I had to find a way to combine live visual elements such as projection and interactive visuals, with more classic music video techniques such as rhythmic editing, split screen and multi-camera cinematography, techniques I explored in the first 2 stages of my MA.

The final outcome of my project is a music video designed for the Thai indie band “Stylish Nonsense” using front projection on scrims and interactive lighting techniques.

Stylish Nonsense - Photos I took and compositedfor my pre-production

To get a more challenging result than a simple projection on background, I studied the use of scrims for front projection. Scrims are semi-transparent fabrics which depending where is the light source coming from, becomes transparent or opaque. Following the recommendation from Deyan, another fellow VJ (theWetCarpet), I decided to go for a dark grey fabric that I could set up in front of the 2 band members, allowing to see both visuals and the band in the same time. To achieve a better result, I also collaborated with Go Kun (Go Ueda), a japanese lighting sequencer who designed a set of interactive lights placed in different part of the stage.

We shot the video at Opposite, a venue own by the WTF franchise, sukhumwit soi 51

Happy New Year 2011

I did this timelapse video in Bangkok as a test for the newcoming Standards music video I am working on with Cedric Arnold. I used a Nikon D700 with a remote control in different places in Bangkok.

Timelapse test for the Standards MV from Gabriel Camelin (Freelenser) on Vimeo.

Showreel 2011

After a lot of research on showreels, I decided to do my own. Here is my work:

Showreel 2011: Gabriel Camelin from Gabriel Camelin (Freelenser) on Vimeo.

This showreel combined my work from previous music videos, post-production work and VJ work.


Featuring:
- Slowreverse - Monster (Thailand, 2010)
Direction and Post-Production
http://vimeo.com/11068636

- Winterplay - Touche mon amour (Korea, 2010)
Post-Production
http://vimeo.com/15601670

- Pop Shuvit - Oh Sizuka (Malaysia, 2009)
Post-Production
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5eH9jQaA6y8

- Project E.A.R - South East A (Malaysia, Thailand, Singapore, Philippines, 2009)
Post-Production
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KOjuloMvFlQ

- The Robot Disaster - Guitars are overrated (UK, 2008)
Direction and Post-Production
http://vimeo.com/16078581

- The Standards - The Proposition (Thailand, 2008)
Post-production

Soundtrack for the Showreel: Jean-David Caillouet
www.myspace.com/jdmozaic

Butoh, 550D camera and color grading test

As I never used DSLR Camera before for video purpose, I needed to test the advantage and inconvenient of such a tool. I also wanted to test color grading with a Color finesse. This is part of my thesis project.

This Butoh performance took place at Boka Photography and Fine-Art Gallery, Bangkok for the opening of the photographic exhibition called Butoh III 2010 on Friday 3rd of December 2010.

The video was shot with a 550D canon and a 28mm 1.8 lens