I’m back from a few days without any connection to the world wide web, and you know what? No you don’t. Yes?

I found some unedited pics on my desktop from the Coredust video premier gig held in early April this year at Painobaari in Helsinki.. Yes. This made me full of joy so I decided to put some old Coredust live pics together for your eyes to feast upon.. Feast my tiny minions, feast.

( Esa – Coredust )

( The howlin’ Esa – Coredust )

( Sakke – Coredust )

( Esa – Coredust )

Yes. And that’s that. You might as well check out their website while your on the webby move yes? Clicker-dicker on the following checker for a rock time – The Coredust website…

// Tage – Coretage

( Coredust – Without Disguise )

Please view the video in full screen FullHD, you’ll get a much better experience then!

The premier was held some hours ago in Helsinki at Painobaari.. Around 200 people showed up during the night, it was awesome. I’m outta words. We screened the music video 3 times tonight and the audience was really pleased. Then Coredust hit the stage and gave us an awesome rock show.. Thank you all for a fantabulous night!

Pics and stuff from the event coming later…

// Tage – the new video is released folks!

The video we shot for Coredust to the song Without Disguise is now about 95% finished, and this feels truly nice! Tomorrow we will put in our last touch of knowledge to make the video a bit more edgy. This thing has been in the making now for many days, I think it has been even months since our first video and brainstorming date with Coredust. And now we have finally reached our goal – a finished product.. Well not quite, but almost, any day now…

( Ramedus himself chilling at the editing facilities )

I had expected the editing of the Coredust video to be a bit more time consuming, but no, we got the thing done in about 2 days.. So that was an excellent surprise! The video looks great and I really look forward to hearing some thoughts, critiques and comments on it when it’s alive n’ kickin’ on Youtube this upcoming Saturday night.

Tomorrow I’ll head back to the Ramedus offices in the afternoon to fix the last effects, gradings, bits and pieces and hopefully we will also get it exported tomorrow… The video premiers at Painobaari in Helsinki, where it was shot some weeks ago, this Saturday at 8PM and you are all welcome to join in. The video will hit Youtube during the same night, don’t know the exact time, but I’ll be sure to post it here as soon as it’s up!

Yes way, today we invited some “first eyes” for the video, among the first watchers was the great guitarist Mike from Shear, and he liked the video, that really made my day – excited as an orange on acid!

// Tage – Coredust

I got some fabulous news this fine afternoon when I got a call from Esa, the fronter of the band Coredust. He told me that we are gonna arrange a premiere night for the upcoming Coredust video to the song called Without Disguise, which we made last week. A public viewing at Painobaari in the city center of Helsinki!

Of course this was old news to me, but the date is very interesting. I know I told you that we were gonna show you the video in June 2010, but some magic happened and the premier has been moved to the 10th of April at 21.00. This was all grand news and everything, but since my editing partner Ramedus is having cold drinks in Israel at the moment, there will be some manageable difficulties..

After a few calculations we found out that we will have around five days to edit the video, but that shouldn’t be a problem as long as the computers are on our side. Keep your fingers crossed God.

So, whaddaya say folks, wanna come see the video a fine Saturday evening at Painobaari about two weeks from now, of course you wanna – all you have to do is to grab some spare time and show up..! After the video premiere the band will perform a full length show for us! And that is something you don’t wanna miss.

Mark this stuff in your iPhones people – 10th of April, Painobaari, 21.00, brand new music video, Coredust, first time screening, PREMIERE!

// Tage – the happy face

We have finally finished the shooting of the fourth music video. And this was done for the fabulous band called Coredust to their song Without Disguise. Check out some pictures from yesterday when the thing was put into the camera…

( Jyty, Olli, Sakke, Wequ, Esa, Andy, Magnum, Sara, Tage & Ramedus )

This video has been in the planning stage for about 2 months now, and yesterday every idea and concept was finally realized. Although I had expected several misunderstandings and difficulties, like always when doing a project of this size, we encountered about none. And this is actually true – everything went according to the plan – well almost, but still maybe 95% percent. And this was all good news… We spent a good 12 hours in the company of about 18 people, all the extras are missing on the pic above…

( Magnum on the set )

I have never pulled off a music video project of this size, and I can’t believe we did it without any difficulties – and with a good result also! When we glanced through the raw material we came to the conclusion that we had succeed. Bloody fantastic. We shot the whole thing with my 5D Mark II using three different lenses, some tripods and a video crane – which was awesome and will be used in all of our upcoming projects, and that’s the truth, we can’t live without the thing anymore! Video crane for the win baby!

( The boys in the band with the cinematographer Ramedus )

And yes, all of the shots in this blog post were shot with Ramedus’ camera Nikon D90, I don’t know exactly who took them, but I guess it was Ramedus, Andy Maplefield and Magnum W.

Do indeed visit the website of Ramedus ( www.ramedus.com ) and the one of Andy Maplefield of course ( www.anderslonnfeldt.com ).  The shots are taken with a Nikon because we shot the video with my camera and didn’t use it for anything else – this was all just for your information. Let me know if you didn’t wanna know.

( Jaska Raatikainen & Juuso Jauhiainen )

We even had the pleasure of working with some great extras this day. Even the drummer from Children of Bodom, Jaska Raatikainen, showed up! The pic above displays Jaska and Juuso during a beer-ordering-extras-take. An enormous thanks goes out to these guys – you were great!

Among the other extras were two dancers from Tampere called Tiia Räikkä and Tara Nyman, the car driver Mika from Kovanen car rentals and Pasi Luoma as “the big guy”…

( Ramedus )

The video was and is directed by Tage, shot by Ramedus, craned by Magnum, lit and “technicated” by Andy, make-up by Sara and what more.. But of course, acted out by the very cool dudes in Coredust. It’ll later be edited by Tage and Ramedus at the Ramedus offices and we’ll probably get some grading expertise from the great Andy “Anders Lönnfeldt” Maplefield.

( Tara Nyman – waitress & dancer )

( Mr. Raatikainen – one of the extras )

( The crane in the bar )

And probably the most gigantic thank you’s of them all goes out to Painobaari in Helsinki and it’s owner Wequ for all their assistance and help during this whole process! Thank you very very much! ( www.painobaari.fi ).

But obviously there has to be some disturbing news also.. The video will not be uploaded or shown anywhere until the beginning of June 2010. This is all because of the following facts – we are gonna arrange a public viewing for the video at Painobaari where it all went down yesterday. During this premier evening Coredust will perform a whole set and the video will be screened three times. Why not earlier you say? ..Cause the bar was not available any sooner during the weekends. That’s why. But at least we will have something to look forward to for the next 2 months!

( El Director )

( Tage with Sara and the Dancers/Waitresses )

Hope you all enjoyed this little bloggy thingy with some unique making of stills of yesterday’s big time music video shoot! After this it’s all about editing for the next couple of weeks and a gigantic premier at Painobaari in Helsinki in the beginning of the upcoming summer. And yes, the premier is open for every motherfucking one of you! Welcome! Dates and information about this particular upcoming evening later on folks!

Keep it up and visit the Coredust site —>>> ( www.coredust.com ).

//Tage – the video is now shot!

]]> http://www.tageronnqvist.com/blog/shooting-the-new-video/feed/ 17 http://www.tageronnqvist.com/blog/getting-ready-for-sunday/ http://www.tageronnqvist.com/blog/getting-ready-for-sunday/#comments Thu, 18 Mar 2010 22:54:53 +0000 tage http://www.tageronnqvist.com/?p=1092 So yes!

As I’ve mentioned a few times before, the video Sunday is getting closer by the hour, yet again.. This Sunday it’s time for the making of my fourth music video. Today was yet another day of planning, scheming and figuring things out.

( Ramedus – Painobaari )

Yes, we went location sniffing today with Rasmus, he hadn’t been to Painobaari at all, where the shoot is goin’ down on Sunday.. But I sense that he liked the place.. We exchanged some words with the owner of the place, Weku, he said that everything was already arranged and that he was really waiting for the shooting day. Cool. Apart from the creative decisions concerning this thing I think that all of the practical arrangements are looking somewhat ready and steady.. And that is very pleasing!

( Tage at Ramedus )

Yes, the picture is flip-flopped.. I thought you’d never notice, but since I mentioned it, you will by now have noticed it right? Flip left? Or perhaps you thought that you knew that the shot was horizontally flipped since the apple now is eaten from the coke side of life.. No commercial intended.

Well, we headed back to the Ramedus offices over att the Arabian Beaches shortly after scouting our way to some creativity drinks.. Or whatever they were or are called. This shit makes hella no sense. No it doesn’t. We had some pasta and suddenly the great Andy Maplefield showed up at the doorstep of Ramedus..

( Andy with the happy water )

The cool thing about all of this video is that we will probably be a gang of somewhat 15 people doing the video on Sunday, now that sounds freaky.. 15 people in a small restaurant lip-syncing with a camera.. This is by far the biggest music video project I’ve been involved in, and it makes me so very excited.. Hopefully we will pull through and make a great video for the boys of Coredust!

Tomorrow I’ll get up early and head to a video crane building course with Magnum W and Ramedus.. Should be interesting! Take care now, bye bye then!

// Tage – The planner!

Well well, this fine afternoon I got back to Helsinki from the north pole, although Helsinki has got to be a part of the Northy (as I call it from this moment) as well, since it’s like minus 20 000 degrees of celly here at the moment..

And whaddyaknow, as soon as my train landed (intentional irony) I headed for a music video meeting with Esa, the vocalist of Coredust, to the very place where it’s all going down in a few weeks. In short.. We met with the restaurant owner to gather some thoughts for how everything is being planned and panned with my fourth music video. He seemed like a really helpful and cheerful guy, hence, from this moment on I’m gonna eat all of my lunches over at his restaurant, Painobaari..

Anyway. The team for the shoot is somewhat assembled (unless anyone of you is dying to be a part of the shoot, though I highly doubt it).. The date for the video shoot has now primarily been set to the 21st of March, by then we should have a working script, a sober team, some can can girls, a make-up department and a whole lot of extras (I’ll get back to the extras when the date is closing in – something special is going down with the extras – that’s a promise).. And yes, I also suspect that we need a working camera and a light master…

The video will be shot at the restaurant called Painobaari (and even some fucking freezing ouside-of-the-bar captures) in the center of Helsinki on the 21st of March 2010. I’m very sorry for repeating myself, it’s just that I’m somewhat tired and my backspace went on tour with Pearl Jam. I very much hope for a successful project with loads of laughter and some intense seconds of hard work. And obviously the good people over at Ramedus will join in, we’ll perhaps start the script process in a few weeks together with the band.

Tomorrow – new promotional shots is being published – only on the Tage page.. So stay on the line folks – or don’t.

//Tage – The Video’ist