Jes Stretton music video shoot: "Be happy. Be you."

Still of Jes in the shoot

Tom directing Jes

Freddie the Great Dane

Thursday April 24th, I got on the train to Manchester (after two or three changes due to train times!) and arrived to meet Tom Rout again to assist in the Jes Stretton music video shoot for her upcoming e.p "Be happy, be you." for her May 14th album release of "Surrender". If you want to check Jes out, her twitter is here and her soundcloud is here. 

Tom and I met with Robbie Cavanagh who would also be helping out for the day, and straight from Piccadily Station we jumped into a taxi and made our way towards Longford Park where we would be filming at for the day and where we would be meeting Jes. Unfortunately for us all the extras we had hoped for fell through! However, this didn't stop us from ploughing on; after taking a walk around the park with Jes and Charlotte to scout out locations we got on with some initial filming, which was first to start with Jes introducing the album "Surrender". While this went on it gave me time to be able to set up the glidecam 2000 set up- today was my first proper day with the steadycam set up. It proved a bit tricky at first to adjust to the Canon 60D and get used to the way it was held and used but over the day I found it became easier to operate. 

Me with the Glidecam 2000

Me with the Glidecam 2000 set up

Overall, the day went really well! Thankfully unlike rainy Nottingham that I had travelled from Manchester was surprisngly cheery and sunny, and although we had a little while where it decided to drizzle and dark it soon passed over and we were able to continue the shoot as planned. We managed to try out a variety of angles, and lots of play with it all and overall I feel really confident and happy with how the shoot went down for the day- now it's just up to Tom to put it all together! 

There were so many behind the scenes photos I just couldn't spam the blog with them all, so here is an imgur album full of all the behind the scenes photos from the day!