So long Metroscreen and thanks for all the help you gave local indy film makers
Bugger. Metroscreen's closing.
From affordable gear hire to mentorship, Metroscreen were the Indy film makers friend.
As the band member responsible for making the vids, I've relied on the underground help from groups such as Metroscreen to be able to afford to make even basic videos.
You might not know it, but we can record and release a commercial grade album for the same prices a 1 single commercial grade videoclip. Far out.
I sometimes think that's why bands have either weird/shitty/low rent clips. A videocrew can run easily to 3-4 people without being silly about it. And thats before props, effects, makeup, editing, titles, clearances, omfg yadda yadda and even with all that it can still look awful unless you know what you're doing or you're lucky.
I've relied on help from cinematographers and crew trained by metroscreen to make our stuff look a little more pro, without the dough.
Thank you metroscreen. I'll miss ya.