Category Archives: documentary

Bernard Purdie and The Beatles

Replacing Ringo? The Story Behind Bernard Purdie and The Beatles

 

https://mattkprovideo.com/2017/12/10/bernard-purdie-and-the-beatles/

“There are four drummers on the Beatles records. Ringo’s not one of them.” So says Bernard Purdie

Taken at face value, this is a bold claim, if not a crazy one.

Purdie also stated: “I overdubbed the drumming on twenty-one tracks of the first three Beatle albums.”

Bernard Purdie is one of the must influential and famous drummers in recorded music history. This author details Purdie’s claims, explains why he said what he did, and separate fact from fiction.

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernard_Purdie

 

https://bernardpurdie.com/

 

John Williams Documentary

Star Wars – Music by John Williams Rare 1980 Documentary

https://mattkprovideo.com/2017/12/07/john-williams-documentary/

 

A documentary on the amazing John Williams. He scored most of the great movie epics of the last 30 years: Jaws, Close Encounters, Raiders of the Lost Ark and all its sequels, Star Wars and all its sequels!

His music is the best part of anything that he has worked on.

Williams score brought the fear and dread of the impending shark attacks in Jaws. He ( and George Lucas) had the great idea to have the music score for Star Wars contradict the pictures.  High Tech futuristic imagery with old style pseudo classical music underneath gave the potentially goofy movie a seriousness and elegance it wouldn’t have had otherwise.

 

Say what you want about the Phantom Menace…. John Williams music score, especially “Duel of the Fates” is excellent!

 

At 14:06 you can see the Carbon Freeze scene from The Empire Strikes Back with the original undubbed voices!

 

 

Endor shooting location.

RETURN OF THE JEDI Endor forest speeder bike chase scene  shooting location.

mattkprovideo.com/2017/11/21/3692/

 

Owen Cheatham Redwood Grove in Northern California

 

I am a little confused, I thought I read somewhere that the Endor scenes were shot in a part of the forest that was “due to be clear cut anyway”.  And yet there it all still is.

I am assuming that trail was blazed by Star Wars fans wanting a picture by the locations, but actually that trail is there in the 1983 film. You’ve got to look real quick but its there.

If they made this film today there would be using newer, more advanced “steadi cams”  or drones or…. ( yukk!) CGI.  One idea I always had was the lay many MILES of dolly track with a real practical speeder bike on it and just film it.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Arangetram Birthday Dance

Arangetram Birthday Dance

mattkprovideo.com/2017/10/11/arangetram/

 

2 Beautiful young girls celebrate their birthdays by performing elaborate cultural dance routines for their friends and family!

 

Rachata and Rachita’s Indian birthday celebration.

Shot with multiple Canon cameras and edited in Adobe Premiere.  The opening graphic was created with Photoshop and After Effects.

 

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arangetram

Arangetram is the debut (Arangettam – in Malayalam) on-stage performance of a former student of Indian classical dance and music.  The word Arangetram is from the Tamil language and means ascending the stage by a dancer on the completion of formal training.