Back in the fall Pirates Lane Video shot footage of HalloweenFest, a concert event put on by RedBlue Records.  One of the best bands we filmed that day was Kids of Survival from New York.  Several videos from their set will be put online over the next couple of weeks.  The first titled "The 'You' in 'Us' is Silent" is up now on Vimeo and on our Event Gallery page.  Check them out and visit their myspace page at myspace.com/kidsofsurvival and check back soon for more videos!

On Saturday Jan. 23rd  videographer Jim Merchant of Pirates Lane Video filmed a live music video for the eclectic folk-rock group Big Trees at the Gulu Gulu Cafe in Salem, MA.  Some of the footage is still being edited by you can see many of the tracks now at:

YouTube.com/ThereIsOnlyNOW

Gulu-Gulu.com

myspace.com/BigTreesBand

Pirates Lane Video has just finished working with the Boston area band 27 North on a music video for a song called "Twilight".  Although the song is a vampire themed blues song it is not directly related to or even likely inspired by the book/movie of the same name.

Footage of the band was shot in their basement rehearsal space.  The shots of the band were edited in with computer animated sequences set in a foggy graveyard under a full moon.  Effects were then generated to blur the line between the "live" footage of the band and the CGI footage.  Drifting fog was layered in with the shots of the band and some of the shots were altered to look like animations.  All of the animations and effects were done in-house by videographer Jim Merchant.

See the video here.