I’ve been working on some visual elements for Bombs Into You’s stage show.. the idea is that we would project some video on/behind us as we play and have a different video sequence for each song. We haven’t figured out how to sync up the video with our backing electronic tracks yet, but I at least wanted to get a start on the video part of it.

I put all these together in After Effects. It’s actually a good way to help me learn how to use the program since I’m basically just toying around with effects and bits of footage.

I filmed the bug on a cruise ship going down the coast of Mexico. The thermometer is from the front of my house and the blinky lettering was warning of road construction down the street from me. The fence and wires footage comes from a substation also near my house.

I am starting to experiment with ideas for music videos for my band Bombs Into You. I shot this footage in my basement and then played with it in After Effects and Premiere. I was thinking of using some of the effects for our new track My Machine along with a story sequence.

Before producing that FLV version I rendered out an mp4 version and the results were.. twitchy. I don’t know why or how Premiere rendered it like that, but I really like the effect!

My band is working on a new EP that will come out before the end of the year. I’m hoping to have a music video or two for us done sometime around then. I’ll keep you posted.