Lights, Camera, Sing!

This past week was super busy for us. So much so that most of it is a blur. But one of the more exciting events was Joe helped shoot/produce a music video, and I got to tag along and keep the singers wives company! I guess I always assumed that to shoot a music video you started from the beginning of a song and sang it all the way to the end. Nope, it is chopped up into sections and different parts of the video are done at different times and different locations. They started the shooting process early on Wednesday at a studio designed to look like the inside of a house, with a baby grand piano(I didn't participate on Wednesday.) But I did on Thursday...We went to the beach to shoot. The day started with the alarm going off at 3:30am...yeah I know, Early. We hopped into the van, grabbed the rest of the people going and met up with the camera crew. After the two hour trek to the beach, the camera crew immediately starting dragging generators, lights and a jig(a crane arm that you mount the camera on, this is how they get really cool sweeping shots) out on a string of rocks surrounded by the ocean, that we used as our stage. Technically speaking we filmed two videos at once, one in English and the same song in Portuguese. The song was originally sung in Spanish by Ricardo Rodriguez, he himself sang it in English this past week and then Paulo Baruk sang the Portuguese version. All in all it was an amazing experience. Both couples, singers and their wives were interesting to get to know and spend time with.