Tough edit for me in showing off BEND AND PEEL's first show cut to their song "Just Me":

The new rap fusion collective BEND AND PEEL performed their first show impromptu at Main on Main, Santa Monica on April 26th, 2013. I was commissioned, at the last minute, to shoot the show and the cut it to the CD version of their song "Just Me". 

Cutting a single venue live performance with vocalists to a non-live sound track is challenging because of the general lack of lip sync. It works for better for electronic music acts because there is no vocal performance but with live acts with vocals it is problematic. Even when you do create a lip sync it seems a bit off because the viewer expectation is live sound, not a music video CD track sound.

We did not have have properly recorded live audio, with the exception of bits here and there like the opening of this video. So I had to show less of the vocalists than I wanted to, and had to employ layered editorial techniques, show shots of the space, and show shots of people vibing to the music to make it all flow seamlessly while still exposing the very cool track which is is "Just Me":