Black Prince Grand Reopening Promo
The Landlord of a popular pub in Northampton commissioned me to make a simple promo to lure the punters back in after the first lockdown in 2020. The brief was to let people know about the new safety measures, as well as making the pub - a well established community and live music hub - look as enticing as possible.
On one hand, this was an absolute joy to make. Firstly, I knew exactly what the soundtrack should be - local legends The Jackal 9, and with their kind permission they let me use their song S.A.D. which, although written pre-pandemic, perfectly captures the impatience we all felt in getting back to normal after three months of Lockdown.
Secondly, I’d just bought my first drone - the DJI Mavic Mini. The pub landlord let me run some test shots in the beer garden, on what turned out to be the very last hours of perfect sunshine before six solid days of rain!
The shots you see in the promo are the basic test shots taken after unpacking the Mavic for the first time. Luckily, I’d shot roughly enough to assemble into something suitably grungy-looking. The landlord had written the specific safety instructions for me to add in at the end, which I created in After Effects.