Burley Music Entrainment

Well almost two weeks later, we are complete.

On Sunday September 21 2008, Burley Music Entertainment shot R 30 - a tribute to Rush (one of MIchaels bands), during one of their rehersals.  This video was done to promote the bands upcoming show presented by Rock 101, Plaza Live and the Georgia Straight on November 6th 2008 at the Plaza Club in Vancouver.

R 30 is Michael Burley (guitars and vocals), Gord Esau (bass and keyboards), and Mike Michalkow (drums). This Band has been together (as a three peice) for about three years, and has only rehersed twice in the past year and a half due to hectic schedules.

The Story,

On Saturday September 20 2008, at 7:30 pm (16 hours before the shoot) James and Michael received a phone call informing us that there would be no audio engineer for the upcoming shoot due to a family crisis.

This was a problem.

With Michael already scheduled as one of the three performers (and not being much of an engineer), James and Michael scrambled to find an available audio engineer for the following scheduled day.

With no one being available, Michael decided to make his best attempt to capture whatever sound he could get with his minimal engineering knowledge.

With only one (mono) input available on the system that Michael had available to record with, James decided to set the cameras to record location sound throughout the performance.

Between the two, James and Michael were somewhat confident that they would have something that would capture the sound of the room. (live off the floor).

With 12 drum mics, 1 vocal mic, two samplers, 1 bass amp, 1 guitar mic, 1 keyboard, you could imagine the difficulties ahead of us.

Oh yeah did I mention MONO?

“The show must go on”

By the time Michael was done wiring the sound throughout three mixing boards (and then into one mono input), and James’s gang was done with the lighting and cameras - the floor of the room looked like it was crawling with snakes.

This was an odd and unusual way of capturing the sound, but in the end they are satisfied with what they had captured.

Now it is time to edit.

Michael spent the following six days (about 14 hours a day), editing the audio captured between the mono mix, and the camera microphones. “The hardest thing was deciding on which mic or input captured what instrument the best, this took alot of trial and error”.

The Video Edit.

To this date, Michael had never done a video edit.

James thought that this project would be a great opportunity to teach Michael how to edit video.

With James’s film crew (the Gang) being their usual “Spectacular”, Michael was left with the responsability of selecting the best shots for these songs from the footage provided from the seven cameras.

With the brilliant shots requiring sensitive decisions, and the learning curves that Michael was undergoing, the edits took aproximatly 4 to 12 hours per song.

“Clean ups were done by James after Michael was done, but we wont tell Michael that”

The four songs captured are Freewill, Subdivisions, Tom Sawyer, and The Spirit of Radio  The final production can be viewed at www.veoh.com , www.youtube.com , and soon on the Burley Music Entertainment Inc. website www.burleymusic.com . All songs can be SEARCHED on these websites by typing in  the song title and Burley Music.

Burley Music Entertainment Inc. would like to send a special thanks to the following people for their hard work on this project.

Steve, Ruben, Jaime, Mariko, Clarence, James, Gord, Mike and Michael.

Yours truly,

Michael, James, and the rest of us here at Burley Music,

Burley Music Entertainment Inc.