Human Elephant Foundation - Video
PUBLISHED:  Nov 21, 2009
DESCRIPTION:
Kicking off the project, Syd and I had a very open, but quite daunting brief:

1. The video and song are about the conversation between elephant and man about human density.

2. No lip sync, or playing to a pre-recorded track was allowed in the video. Everything had to be shot live, on location.

Syd wrote this amazing song under the working title "March of the Elephants, making use of 3 guitars, a Kudu horn and a Brazilian flute.
An interesting fact is that it was not decided by Syd whether the song would have any lyrics until the second day of recording, in which he wrote the lyrics a few minutes before recording them.

My job was to capture the recording process in a way that would allow me to use it with the Elephant footage, already shot by our field cameramen in Moremi Game Reserve, Botswana, Hluhluwe-Imfolozi Park and Addo Elephant National Park.

A lot of consideration was given towards how to make the studio aesthetically pleasing, yet practical for a track recording. I have been very privileged to have been able to make use of the experience of Dave Birch as the song producer, and Boris von Schoenebeck as Director of Photography.

With a properly dressed studio, considered lighting, a world-class team and multiple storyboards and studio plans, we pulled it off.

Thank you to Andries Botha, John Charter and Richard van Wyk for the amazing opportunity.

Lets do it again soon!

Elephant Song

written & performed by:
Syd Kitchen

produced by:
David Birch

published by Kitchen Kulture
administered by Gallo Music Publishers

www.sydkitchen.com

Video

produced, directed & edited by:
Adriaan Landman

production manager:
Taryn Mavrodaris

director of photography:
Boris von Schoenebeck

camera operators:
Paul Myburgh
Garth McConnel

camera assistants:
Zamo Mkhize
Terry Willcott
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