The function of a “One-Man-Band” (sometimes) has it’s benefits!

I just wrapped up a new project with recording artist John Garrett (front man for 24HR Watch).  John made this project such a joy to work on – he was so awesome to work with, flexible, and was able to re-take a line near verbatim.  But I don’t know that it would have gone down so easy if I was a bloated media company! (If you own a bloated media company – I’m kind of sorry, but not really!)

I received a call from John (who’s an old friend of mine – he was on a lighting crew that I was the LD for the ballet company.)  We met there and then he started to attend the same church that I was very active at.  When I received the call I could immediately scene the urgency in his voice asking if I’d be able to shoot his EPK, but it needed to be done – yesterday.  I think that most clients face projects like this (in a crisis mode) but in John’s case – it really was a genuine deal.  He’s needed to have one done, and a new opportunity opened and he needed it in hand ASAP!

Being a One-Man-Band, often means that you have to bring in the help necessary to complete tasks – but in some cases, you can pull together everything on your own (especially if budget doesn’t allow for hiring extra hands) and work as nimble and be as flexible as possible! I’m most often inspired to do this when I read the DV Rebel guide – this DIY, lean and mean style of production, and the “Get it done” mindset is an awesome inspiration to a client! You don’t need 8 bodies on set, if you know how to “Get it Done!”  Do you??!

You can check out the EPK video on, you guessed it – my “Videos” page above, or hit my Vimeo profile.  We’ll be launching a small site for John in a few days as well, so stay tuned!

Also – in other news, and kind of related – the B-roll that was shot on John’s video was done w/ my trusty old stand by (and Edit Deck until I get a HV30) Sony TRV-8, but now modified it with a handle from one of my 8mm film camera – I was looking at it before I packed down for the shoot, and realized it used a standard thread screw at the bottom!  I’ll post some pics of it very soon – the next step with this mod is to find a way to make the trigger to start the record! I’m thinking of hacking a Lan-C controller to make this happen – anyone have any thoughts????

Keep Creating!

PS – I’d also like to extend a very special THANK YOU to Main Street Crossing in Tomball, Texas for allowing us to shoot there on such short notice – see if you can spot the BG noise, there was one plate I could not tame!