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Invincible!
Tuesday 12 April 2005
The shoot for “Invincible” was amazing. We spent Saturday afternoon shooting the opening and closing sequence on B&W 16mm: singer Julian falling asleep in our “rehearsal space” (actually our director Remi’s bachelor apartment, the furniture having been relocated to the deck and the roof). Geez, it’s a lot of work doing this stuff, and we were only doing about half a minute of ‘story’ at most… I have a new respect for TV and movie actors and crews now.
In the evening, we crammed a few dozen people into the same room for the main event. We performed the song in front of an audience as a dream sequence, shot on Super-8, using 6 different cameras of varying makes, on several different types of film stock for a sort of ‘patchwork’ look. Even the movie cameras were part of the scene.
Three of our camera operators were women wearing little pink tops, hotpants and knee socks - Remi promised “space helmets” early on, but they were nowhere in sight, sadly. I did have a moment of “dear god, have we sold out already?” over the Female Eye Candy Thing, but Remi’s justification was that the whole thing is Julian’s dream. Really, this video is just a big character assassination on poor J. :>
One of our guests (I shan’t say who yet) was a strapping fellow in a dress and boa, with whom I ended up dancing. The sight of him, complete with chest hair and glitter, prompted one of our scantily-clad camerawomen to blurt out “Ohthankgod. I don’t feel so dumb now.” Alas, our friend David Hein couldn’t be there… he was planning to be there in a superhero costume, appropriately enough.
Next, we have to record the final version of the song. We’ll have a screening party in June, most likely, and then we’ll put it up on the web site. And then, who knows? I’ll have to start looking up places to send a DVD…