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This is me seeing how much order I can extract from chaos - I wanted to get some insanely raw footage and turn it into something musically appealing. Also important in this edit was to make sure the girls looked nice at all times, and that there wasn't too much of my ugly mug in it :)

The drum preset Elena plays at the start is the funnest drum preset known to man - it's like a jazz thing - the bassline walks with the kick pedal and there are vibes and trumpet stabs on the cymbals.

Notice that I don't really have anywhere good to store my bike, hence its frequent appearance. The same goes for my air conditioning unit.

I thought I'd do the edits in the way Lars Von Trier says to do them in documentaries - edits always flagged by fading through black. The music is diegetic, to say the least! I liked the idea of doing this to contrast with the pace of the editing creating the hyper-reality (verging on total fiction) of the finished cut.

I've uploaded the result of this experiment before, making me regret saying 'grimaceworks presents'. Also, apologies for some inconsistent sentence / title case in the first couple of captions.

When I was more excited about this, I imagined doing a series of them, with different girls each time. But then.. I suppose I do tend to get carried away... Happy for any volunteers though - if you want me to make it look like you're an amazing musician :) (Elena kept getting people asking her to join their band after they saw the drumming in this :-s )

I have edited out most of the bits where I make suggestions as I can't stand to listen to myself. I have also edited out a couple of times where I say "uh.. that's terrible"... As well as all the times I said "that's brilliant!", of course....