One Shot Shed Shooting

We shot and recorded a couple of songs to camera in the One Shot Shed yesterday with the generous help of Ev and an incredible camera 'borrowed' from a major pay tv commercial shoot.

We filmed a single shot of a couple of live performances from start to finish to a little stereo recorder. I've been wanting to do this for awhile.

The One Shot Shed is in Ev's grannies backyard. You can find it between the bee hives, the vege patch, the East Timorese renters' garden flat and granny's beautiful house decorated with Greek religious icons. I think the shed is mostly for Ev's grandfather's stuff. There's a few things in there that look like they have been banished from the house; most notably a poster of Marilyn Monroe, another kind of religious icon I guess.

Granny must have liked the music because she gave me one of her huge home-grown avocados to share with A.



Granny is simply one of the most beautiful 83yr women you could hope to meet. She's fun and pretty firey. She's been married for 63 years. I asked her what the secret was? "Respect. Neither the man or the woman in charge." I got the feeling she was in charge.


I have to learn how to use some kind of 'borrowed' film editing software (final cut???//imovie??) and then you can see the results. Editing offers are of course always welcome.

We recorded "Wages of Fear" beautifully. If only I had pressed record instead of pause on the stereo recorder. Much swearing. Still, there's some other good stuff including "Where I'm Calling From".