Stuart Page on making music videos

Posted on 5 June 2009

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Director, photographer and Axemen drummer Stuart Page is a prolific filmmaker, and has made over 40 music videos. Page has directed promos for Superette, The Clean, and The Skeptics’ infamous AFFCO. In 2009 he won Best Feature Documentary and Best Emerging filmmaker at the DocNZ International Film Festival for his film Shustak, a portrait of American photographer Laurence Shustak. Page also compiled alternative music compilation Noisyland.

In this ScreenTalk interview, Page talks about making two of his finest music videos – the controversial AFFCO by The Skeptics and Killer Clown by Superette.

Regarding Killer Clown, Page discusses:

The themes behind the clip
The set, and ensuing shambles
The standout performances

And on AFFCO, Stuart talks about:

The initial impetus for making the video
Where and how the opening scenes were shot
The visit to the abattoir and the incredible story of how these scenes were realised
The reaction to the clip

This video is available on YouTube for distribution via a Creative Commons licence.

Credits: Camera and editing – Leo Guerchmann. Interview – James Coleman.

Comments

by Savage on 8 June 2009 at 8:24pm

If this has a CC by-nc 3 NZ license it should at least point to the right license page

http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/nz/

not
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0

And how do i download it to remix it – you must have more than the FLV – or is it just low res remixes

http://media.nzonscreen.com/0000/2304/Stuart_Page_Screentalk.1000.HI.flv

Having the video available via google video is cute and a useful channel – but is it really the way to enable embeding? – cant you provide a link on the NZ on Air site – and there is no download option on google either

by Screen Talker on 10 June 2009 at 3:24pm

Thanks for pointing out the problem with the URL – we’ll fix that one up asap!

Regarding the download, we are certainly working on that. Having videos available on YouTube is an interim step while we assess the demand and opportunity for making material available for download.

Thanks for your feedback though, it’s good to hear what people want, and we’ll keep working on making this available.

by Blair on 14 July 2009 at 3:53am

Brilliant! Thanks Stu, Thanks James, Thanks NZ On Screen!

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