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 Indelirium records finally released the final edit for Whales’ Island “Opening Words” video clip. As some might remember the shooting of the videoi took place in early february, while Bologna was facing a snow storm and the edit and direction were in the hand of Stanga. In these warm days of springtime it’s fun to see these 5 heroes act in the cold and wet weather of the red city. Hope you’ll like the photography Less talk, more Rock. Enjoy the video.
We planned two days of shooting and laid out an aproximate script: close references to the lyrics’ meaning, dolly movements, contrasted illumination and hard backlights… but the weather changed and when the snow started to fall everything turned to “improvisation”… No Problem: working with the band was very easy as they’re all good people, flexible, patient (tolerant) and creative.
Day two, in spite of forecasts, was sunny and warm (minus 2° C) and gave us the chance to shoot some of the planned scenes in even more interesting location. One of these was a suburbs’ train station were one of the members had to wait 15 minutes still in 15 cm of snow for a train to leave the station to shout his part. We then spent the rest of the day in a reharsals room to shoot some live scenes. Directing the photography is taking care of framing, camera movements,subject movements related to framing and camera position, lighting and deciding the mood of the scenes… Lot of nice duties that left me the time to shoot the making of. And here are some of the pictures (more available here). I know it’s not a trailer, but I hope it will whet your appetite while the editing is done. Stay tuned for updates… The EP is Co-Produced by Indelirium Records and No Reason Records, and is available in the labels’ respective e-shops.
Finally it’s out! Few hours and it’s already over 100 views. If I think back to the shooting days, being the director of fotography in a video you act in is far easier than be the photographer of your own band’s promo shooting. And there are all the pros of team working! Enjoy!!! The work for the edit of the video of my band (Linterno) is almost over. The final cut of the video will be finally out on december 15 2011. Stay tuned for updates)  Linterno Promo Shooting Taking pictures of bands has always been my aim and one of the things that introduced me to serious photography back in 2002. I love it as much as playing guitar in my band. So, when your band is approaching the release of a new record you know that it’s time to enter the photo studio and stand on the set… on the other side of the camera. And here’s what happened: Linterno, the band I play in, is going to publish its second full length and needed the pictures for both the booklet and the press pack. We had an whole (october) afternoon to shoot and posed both in the studio and its premises (railways, gardens, suburbs…). Luckily my wife, Marjana, is a brilliant assistant and allowed us to work fast by checking every picture and shooting at the right moment. Here’s a classical picture.
As usual, the picture is credited to “Andrea Bonaga – andreabonaga.it” even if he is visible in the top right of the picture, ready to shoot the Futurity Open Final
I’m in kreuth (Germany) in the OstBayernHalle, to cover, along with Andrea Bonaga the NRHA European Futurity, one of the main european events about Reining (western horse riding). We’re the official photographers and we cover both the races and the social life, so one of the dues we have is to produce miscellanea pictures portraiting the venue, the main actors and the people behind the scenes. While roaming around looking for an image to satisfy the press office requests I ran in this sight. I realized some shots, with a competitor enterning, spinning, sliding stopping and exiting the arena and when back for selection, I cropped a wide angle (12mm) picture to this panoramic version of the empty arena that was later selected as leede for the homepage of the event’s website. Here’s the shot. More are available on the website’s gallery. As usual, for western riding pictures, all images are credited as “Andrea Bonaga – andreabonaga.it”. Today Stanga published on his Vimeo the final edit of the video of the song “Ink Stains and Incidents” by From Plan to Progress. Here’s the video (I’m protesting right now for the missing credits)
As soon as we were done with the pictures it was time to move towards the studio for the final takes of the video, for the shooting on white backdrop and to feed the band. The video set up was quite easy as on a studio the light is exactly what you want with no parasite light coming from anywhere. Stanga and I had the time to shoot each member of the band separately as both of us needed this kind of situation. And to conclude I had half an our to shot all of them on the white backdrop in a light usually used for fashion. In the end the band started joking on the set and I had the opportunity to get this last picture.
Here are some shots of the event. Just the usual “I was there” shots. The best will be published on PunkRockWorld.it soon.
The situation: The second cake, an autumnal set and a halloweenian atmosphere. The long wait for the subject to defrost and a small placeholder for the descriptive pie. Then, a customer brings away the confectioner: A blue and a CTO gel fly right on the strobes. The result is a picture who’s just lacking a carved pumpkin and a couple of spiders. A note for the next year…
Here are two pics from the night at Magazzino 47 in Brescia. On the right Steve Neary an on the left Erik Perkins
The two chefs have been very kind and it all went through smootly althought there wasn’t enough room to move the lights around without attempting at our own integrity. This is one of my favourite pictures from the second set: the two chefs perfecting their cakes ans sweets. If I’ve got their requests this will be the pic they will use for their brochure. Let’s see what will happen
 BBR Barrel 5D races
Drop the monster…
Today we’ve been at the “monster”, an crumbling building that stands not too far from Bologna’s suburbs. This eco-monster was built 50 Years ago and it was planned to become a Jesuit monastery. It’s now abandoned and we set a shooting inside it. Here there are two shots: the first was taken in the Monster, the second one while we were packing everything in the car to come back home.
At Shumacher’s Ranch…
And here’s the lede for the 8 pages long article. Vroom 251 – Junior Classes Kart Test
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In the middle of the winter, while Bologna is facing one of the most aboundant snow falls of the past 100 years, “
It’s been a while… I forgot to update this blog, even though I wrote some notes about the assignments I went through in this winter. I’ll try to sum everything up and post the missing posts. Today’s assignment (well, actually februrary 24′s) was a shooting with the english punk rock band From Plan To Progress. I’ll write about that soon… As of today, I’m done with selection and the pre-post production of some pictures… here’s one of them.
The Job: 4 Cakes
My band, Linterno, had a 2 day with the American Punk Rock Band Far From Finished playing in Bologna and in Brescia. We already played with them in 2008 along with Millencolin in their tour date here in Bologna and got in good relationship with them and their European tour manager Jens. In those days they invited us to attend their following tour date in Florence, while today (well, actually yesterday) they hosted our bass player Stanga and me on their tour bus on their way to our next Venue: The Magazzino 47 in Brescia. Useless to say, those guys are great the way you could figure out listening to their records.
This year’s impersonation of the band showed some changes in the lineup giving up the opportunity to meet another old acquaintance: Erik Perkins, No Trigger’s former drummer, whom we played with back in 2007.
The cooperative who runs the Impero Cafe and Confictionery hired me for a shooting of the confictionary’s chef and deputy. The shooting took us almost an hour to set up 4 different situations all completely strobe lit.
A food shooting at the Cafè Confectionery Impero in Bologna’s Downtown. This was the first cake in its third set (ok, I’m talking nonsense now)… Tiramisu with Green Tea and Peaches.
LagWagon and Nouse for a Name the same night at the same Venue with a great band like This is A Standoff… I have nothing else to say (my report will be published at PunkRockWorld.it)
Once again with Orfeo for some shots in the Jurassic Skate Park in Cesena.
The other one is of the storm that broke above us just at the same time the band started to play. Luckily the beach party was on a covered area of the beach club and none of us got wet. A couple of song before the end of the show I left the “pit” to enjoy the storm and eventually took a picture of it.
I was in Vicenza area for an assignment. few horses but nice people. This one was taken near the end of the event, on a fast circle of a reining pattern (the face was darkened on purpose)
