Apocalypse Now.

film clip for Apocalypse Now (june 2010, 4'20)
Sound performed by Flesh Vs. Venom. Raw footage first screened at their final show, 2008.

I began shooting footage for this clip to be shown at the final Flesh Vs. Venom show in 2008. Back then I didn't have a clue about image sizing and Final Cut Pro and compressing so I had a lot of trouble exporting out a 25GB file on to a DVD! So, on the night of the show, I had to film my laptop screen and, since the file was too big to even play all the way through on my computer, I had to manually drag the cursor through the timeline and did a bit of improvising when the footage skipped. Anyway, I eventually got the film to the gig and screened my footage directly off of the video camera. Surprisingly I got some pretty good feedback.

Fastforward 2 years and by now I have a bit more of a grasp on these programs on my laptop. I decided to use this 15 minutes of footage and edit it down into a film clip for just one track from the final FVV album 'Family Trees'. After settling on Apocalypse Now, Zac helped me with the editing process to get my idea of the narrative across. The basic idea is that a girl turns into a bear and goes into the woods in search of a partner.