Spooky Men's Chorale

From their website: Genial buffoonery and immaculate, testosterone drenched vocals define the Spooky Men's Chorale, a ruthless bunch of larrikins based in the Blue Mountains of Australia. Their stated ambition is to make women weep, small children quail, and insurance salesmen vaguely aware that somewhere, there is a whole world they've never experienced.
With a sound as warm and grainy as a slab of teak, the Spooky Men give equally loving attention to ancient Georgian table songs, tawdry anthems like Don't Stand Between a Man and his Tool, and the odd ballad of terrifying beauty.

About the clip: I caught them at the National Folk Festival in Canberra at Easter 2006 and shot this clip after a gig at bout 11pm at underneath a street lamp. The temperature was about 0C so we didn't have much time to do it. We borrowed a few torches and got a couple of people to hold them under the camera shining upwards to give a spooky look. I then shot 2 takes - they were singing along to a CD - one of them in a semicircle with the camera moving around backwards and forwards, and another take with the choir divided into 2 revolving circles wheeling towards the camera. In final cut pro, I then colourised one take red and one take blue, and merged them so they were superimposed. This gives a great spooky effect, and also when viewed with Chromadepth 3D glasses, gives a superb simulated 3D effect. Trouble is you have to order the glasses from the states and I only have one pair. Bugger.

More info on the Spooky's on http://www.spookymen.com.au

Also see stereo 3D version of this clip on http://www.vimeo.com/6957515

Category:

Music

Tags:

• spookymen
• spooky
• men's
• chorale
• australia
• folk

[kunertcarol]

wow johngeopix. you are very clever doing the filming this way. I am really impressed.

[johngeopix]

thanks, the challenge was how to get all those blokes into the frame, so one way is to get them to walk past the camera and the other way is to move the camera along the line, so I did a run of the whole song with both methods then combined the takes using opacity so one shows through to the other, and also messed with the colour, one track red and one blue.

[hazzer19981]

saw them at towersey 09 at the festivile dance tent there spooky tastic!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!­!!!!!!!!!!

my new slogon is we can grow beard if we want to

[TheVintageChic]

i saw them at towersy to they were amazing so funny they were really nice my dad knew one of them so we went and talked to them and got a spooky handshake

[ilikecake48]

@vulcan45 Hey give me a break! My school makes me shave >:C

[cold1melody]

tee hee, " we can grow beards of we want to!"

[MrDutton94]

@joojdyer australia :)

[xPopeOnARopex]

@johngeopix makes it spooky. Also, I have also filmed these guys at warwick music festival with a company called festival vison, they provide big screen with the pictures, an I gotta say, this is some very good footage, I can understand the chalange you faced, and i think this shows it really well :) good job mate!

[familiarstranger95]

only just been sent this, THIS IS AMAZING :L

[vulcan45]

3 people can't grow beards

[Keeblor]

Lol we can grow beards if we want too lol awesome

[zabotnik]

like it! :)

[sumbuddyx]

Nice!

[SimonHDTV]

speights ftw