Some time ago, I worked as VFX Supervisor for on a music video shoot for band The Courtesans; the job was to create a reasonably convincing “burning” effect as the four band members were tied to a post.

Director Brad Watson is a VFX artist in his own right and shaped the look of the wide fire shots; I only worked on the medium and closeup shots of the girls on fire seen towards the end of the video. To smooth things over and lend the music video more character, Brad added light leaks and film burns to everything which do a good job of selling the fire effects. I gather that band member Agnes also helped cut the video together. The video has an interesting message about body image.

The single “Genius” has shades of trip/hop sounds and reminds me of the song Dissolved Girl by Massive Attack.

The song itself can be bought on iTunes here for a trivial sum in full quality.

The band members themselves were friendly and personable and this made the shoot great fun.