Shooting Location: Godown, Cochin
Picture this... a place full of dust and mess. This was to be our shooting location for the new video, City Blocks. It was so messy that Jagan and Arun had to go get their vacuum cleaners to tidy up the performance area.
This was the first time we used a make up artist - someone had to make us look presentable! Actually, aside from this he had to make us look slightly fairer skinned than we were. Arun and Saji thought they were Snow White - the fairest of them all but it took an hour each for them. Jagan and Anish's make up took half an hour. As for Sunil, the make up artist gave up after ten minutes as he knew he had no hope in hell of making him any fairer!
It was now time to take the drums, keyboard and all the other music equipment from the practice room to the nearby godown.
Tom had planned on shooting the video using only natural light. But after playing around with the camera, he asked the band for more lighting, which Sunil paid for cos it was needed just for him :-)
Jeffin (a friend and well wisher of the band) was also on hand to help; he was handling both the digital camera and the photo camera - a few times, trying to imitate Tom..
The shoot finally began at 12.00pm. The doctors at the ENT hospital nearby complained about the noise made by us - patients having had ear surgery that day were not so pleased about being at that particular hospital. So one doctor sent an assistant to ask us to reduce the volume - perfect time for a break!
Shooting resumed after the break with no more complaints from the hospital, as we reduced the volume. But before this, the make up artist insisted we all had a touch up and make ourselves look decent for the continuation of the shoot.
By 6.30pm, the day's shooting was over - Tom's words were 'pack up!' The same day, we travelled to another place to continue the shoot, Thiruvalla (Central Travancore), 100km from Cochin. The usual journey time is 2 hours but we went one step further and took 5.5 hours - we were helped by the failure of the accelerator cable of the vehicle in which we were travelling.
Everyone stayed at Jagan's aunt's place, really exhausted from the shoot and the nightmare journey so we went straight to bed (Sunil's first love!) but none of us were ready to miss out on dinner first!
Keep reading to find out about Day 2 and to see an exclusive footage of the video shoot, which will be posted soon...!
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