Video Post Production for "Steve Blames Pop the history makers"

It's not everyday you get to work with a genuine MTV leg end.

I stumbled into "Steve Blames Pop the history makers" show on youtube. Fantastic interviews with great acts. He's a very personable interviewer and is genuinely interested in getting under the veneer of pop stardom. He likes to know what makes people tick, what shaped their experience and formative years and how that might be an undercurrent in their music. I like reading biographies, a lot. In fact I read more biographies than anything else probably - so this style of interview is right up my street. Fantastic!

We got talking and i ended up doing some post on a Stephen Lipson interview (He's been involved in more hit records than you've had hot dinners: Grace Jones, Frankie Goes to Hollywood, Paul Mcartney etc ad inifinitum). The source was a regular zoom video with a single audio track that drifted in and out of sync while the subject was talking! Lots of audio editing and stretching and messing around and it's fixed. But it took a long while. Also did the colour grading (pretty happy with how sparkly the studio is) and some titles etc. Great fun. https://youtu.be/bGCnjMuo9Yc?si=9m-YZzMIkIbRKtR6

And the 'Sleaford Mods' - One of Britains best exports right now. Sweary, politicised avant garde electronica like the Pet Shop Boys a very, very angry Pet Shop Boys. This was again a zoom video but this time a 3 shot! Each was by a window with the sun coming in, and going out again every 30 seconds. Maddening. I ended up doing some crazy white balancing and probably lots of things you're not supposed to with a LUT but by God i was going to finish it. https://youtu.be/wLhIYzEuCGU?si=Bb-PaUyG13athTOG

It was great fun working with Steve. Genuinely nice guy with brilliant stories. Check out more of "Steve Blames Pop the history makers" on Apple podcasts