Make Your Own Kind Of Music (Videos)

I've just come off the back of two days' filming in Hereford, shooting a music video which I should have done a couple of years ago. I got in contact with the singer Kate St John back at the beginning of my second year of university, with an eye to using one of her songs for the music video project of my course. Although she was happy for the video to be made, it never happened. And I always felt guilty for never completing the project.

When I was finishing up at uni, I wanted a quick project that I could do over the summer to stop myself from falling out of the habit - something that wouldn't require the twelve months plus of pre-production that "The Devil Came Today" demanded. I remembered the ideas I'd had for the music video, and set about making them reality.

Once again, luck has been on my side. I've been blessed with a top-notch cast. I was lucky enough to work with Gabby (Dorcas in "The Devil Came Today") once again - and just as always she proved an absolute joy to work with. I also had a chance to work again with Matt Jones, who I'd first encountered on the set of "Still Young", and Ashleigh Harley, who I hadn't seen since the BFI Academy at Rural Media. Both are fantastic actors, and to my relief they had great chemistry! I really didn't want to see the video become a failure because the chemistry wasn't there!

I had few worries about the first day of filming - we were scheduled to spend the whole day in Holywell Gutter Lane, an almost perpetually deserted footpath barely ten minutes' walk from home - and the schedule was incredibly lenient. The second day, today, promised to be a slightly more nervy affair. The location I'd chosen - a small stony beach along the River Wye, just off the Victoria Bridge - was easy to get to, and a beautiful spot, but by all accounts it was generally very busy on sunny days. And today was a sunny day, especially come the afternoon.

Myself and the cast of "Colonel Sinnott's Song of Love" along the banks of the River Wye

I needn't have worried. There was scarcely a soul to be seen, other than the cast.

Now it's time for the edit, so that the video can be finished in time for my premiere on September 7th. After that? Who knows. The next project, I guess!