When I saw the theme for this month I got all excited cos it was a musical one, I love music, all sorts of music so I thought this would be easy as I have lots of songs in my collection, so finding one that would be suitable for the theme should be easy.. yeah right,
the trouble with having a huge music collection is there are so many songs with a colour in the title or in the lyrics that finding one for this theme shot was like finding a needle in a needle stack.
Having finally selected the song from which I could draw inspiration, I then set about thinking how do I portary this song in picture form… mmn thinking, scratch the old noggin,
start talking to the missus about it and she gives me a few ideas which starts the grey matter going, oh I can do this and I can do that, I got so carried away I think it would have taken me many months to get everything down.
Time to stop, sit back and declutter, I start to simplify the idea, honing it get the shot we have here, which is inspired by “Red Right Hand – Nick Cave & the bad seeds”. I went for what the song means to me and the “feel” of the song, it also appears in one of my favourite movies “Scream” which is probably why it has that particular feel to it, in my mind, unforunatly it doesn’t have a Summer link but thats ok.
I did have fun doing this shot, which entailed doing a little research and playing around with the props and lots of test shots to make sure it all looks good, and I must give some credit to the missus, cos without her I don’t think it would have happened. I’m actually quite pleased with the result, although the shot doesn’t reflect the hard work that went into getting it right, often simple shots have the hardest work behind them.
