Film making: The Weave, "A Study in Fog" Music video
- Feb 28
- 2 min read
Updated: Mar 3
The winter of 2024 was a strange one; a winter where I found myself standing on a foggy, desolate street, and shouting to a bald man wearing striped socks, holding a smoke-billowing French horn. In our heads, this was completely normal. I say 'our' as trumpet genius Martin Smith was the oddball, and we were both piecing together a music video. And so, at 11:30 at night, amid the apartments of Huskinson Street, we rolled the Iphone 16 and set to capturing. A passer-by emerged from the mist and commented in a dry Scouse accent, "'aving fun, lads", before swanning off. The truth was we were, as we set off smoke bombs in the bell of the gleaming Gallic horn. No doubt a clock struck twelve, but we didn't notice. We were still thinking about the man and his swan-like gait.
Watch the music video for "A Study in Fog" below.
But the fun wasn't confined to Huskinson Street. Our smoke-billowing trumpet character was dubbed 'The Fog Botherer’, and we chased the fog as it happened. From the Pier Head, under the gaze of the bronze Beatles, to the beaches of New Brighton and the shallow depths of my own bathtub. We did indeed study the fog. And happy to slowly descend into madness was pianist Rob Stringer, a former chorister who played the hero in our tale of clag and braved the bitter, beaching Atlantic winds, a frenzied arcade of amusement and inclined, slippery, River Mersey-sided city streets.
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And as another box of smoke canisters was packed into the car, we set off to my eccentric Uncle's sprawling property to join some more conspirators onboard the footplate of a mid-20s Rolls Royce. That evening we were joined for the video presentations finale by my useful effects-making sons, a Polish model and her creative friend, a wife of many years, a recorder of sounds and yet another trumpeter. Beer, soup and sandwiches gave way and our group packed inside its plush interior of the "family-Roller" whilst dressed as if to heist an abbey downtown. All were ready to don the ski masks that had suddenly become ubiquitous in our culture, (through no fault of mine) and proceeded to bop to the musical beat. I'm still, after all this time, waiting for the madness to subside. That winter was nuts but what a soundtrack!! Catch you later James
Written, edited and shot by James Wafer
And the follow up video, Maggie Times
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