Yes way.
I’m currently in the pre-production phase of this weeks upcoming video shoot and today was all about making phone calls and several visits to a large amount of different places in Helsinki. The Ramedus stepped into my condo around noon and the day was on.. This insert is a story of the weird things that occurred this fine Monday of madness.
It all started with us filling some blank spots on a few papers, this is boring.. Anyway, we pointed our filthy noses towards the well-known P. Mutasen Elokuvakonepaja to make sure that our bookings for the upcoming video shoot this Sunday and Monday were up to date. We have yet again managed to rent the video crane for the new “The Cajunga” video. The Crane, ah, the crane, this could go on for hours – kinda like a monkey eating porridge..
The pre-production today was all about getting the needed permissions to shoot some stuff at one of the Airports in Helsinki, grabbing a Gorilla by the nuts, finding ourselves some heavy ass water guns, getting the catering shit together and making some prank calls to Anders Lönnfeldt.
( The Ramedus with his production hat )
Yes, so we got the things we wanted from the film production rental place and all was well.. Then several things saw the face of our status quo concerning the upcoming video shoots of which there are five at the moment – get busy living right..? The Monday moved on and we went to the city center to pick up our Gorilla suit that is being used in The Cajunga video.. The suit is awesome. Check it out folks!
( The Cajunga Gorilla paid us a visit at the Ramedus offices )
So yes, the Gorilla suit is awesome, I can’t really explain it in any other way. I can’t think of anyone who wouldn’t want one of these. The Gorilla is gonna act as the main character in the new video that we are shooting at the end of this week. Can’t wait. My first video with a Gorilla – I bet you don’t have that one on your CV right?
After our Gorilla experience we tried getting hold of a large, Arnold Schwarzenegger large, water gun also needed for the new video. After some minutes of harsh thinking we got one from the “idyllic-fairytale-y” Kvevlax located in the deepest woods of Ostrobothnia via phone – nice one!
And this I should definitely share.. When we had tried out the Gorilla suit enough we simultaneously thought “YouTube”. Yes. So Ramedus jumped into the suit and we went knocking on some doors trying to scare people dressed as a Gorilla with a filming 5D. This was fun. We actually managed to scare the hell out of someone who just recently told me that I couldn’t post the clip, so I’m terribly sorry – no video proof this time… Gotta respect the will of a Gorilla-fearing girl.
( Magnum W went head-to-head with the Gorilla )
Later this day we forced ourselves into our crane operators apartment with Ramedus fully Gorilla dressed. Magnum W responded like every man would – with a fight! It must be a masculine thing, whenever you see a Gorilla, beat him down. That’s the general thought right. So they hustled on Magnum’s bed and it all ended up in blood sweat and tears.. But eventually the Gorilla bit off Magnum’s head and we had a glass of wine celebrating the showdown!
And now this day is on the verge of ending.. And tomorrow the pre-production continues with a visit to the airport, a few arrangements with our bikini-model girl and some arrangements with some police cars. I’m telling you, this video is gonna be epic! I’m very very excited for the shoot that’s going down this upcoming Sunday and a few days into next week.. It’s gonna be very exciting to shoot a music video during a period of several days!
Other things that occurred this day involved me getting 4 tickets to the Lady Gaga show that is visiting Helsinki in October. We even got several things moving within the Fredrik Furu video pre-production and I had some “pyttipannun”. So cheers folks, tomorrow is a new day with loads of challenges!
// Tage – the happy Gorilla
27.4.2010 kl. 12:07 am
Vitsi den e härli dendä gorilla dräkten:D
27.4.2010 kl. 12:09 am
Den e ju en riktig jävla vinnare!
27.4.2010 kl. 12:22 am
att liiite!
27.4.2010 kl. 1:02 am
Nå aijaaaa!
27.4.2010 kl. 1:34 am
I love the Gorilla. Did you seriously scared the candy bar out of that poor girl’s mind? AWESOME. But did you knew her, or is she just a ‘random’? Would’ve loved to see the video, haha.
Good for you, though. I wonder what kind of outfit she will be wearing in Finland.
I see you got the crane for this video, too. It did a great job on the Coredust one, so I can’t wait to see what you’ve came up with this time.
And yeah, I read about the GaGa tickets. Congrats. I hear she’s coming here in some stinkin’ small town, not big enough to host the concert alone, but if I go, I’d probably just ‘paparazzi’ my way to the stage
27.4.2010 kl. 1:39 am
The girl and the youtube clip and the everything, it’s a long story.. We knocked on many doors, and then Magnum told us what door to knock to get some serious effect, cause he knew the girl who lived there and something like that.. So to make a long story even longer, I described this thing for you..
But it sure is a shame that I couldn’t post the clip – I guess she felt kinda embarrassed – well who wouldn’t.. 
Lady Gaga – I can’t wait! You should absolutely get tickets, she has to be awesome!