Summertime (kinda) video

This has been the most tedious process EVER!!!

Here is the video for my debut single - Summertime.



Here's the story behind the video...(VERY LONG READ BUT YOU SHOULD READ TO UNDERSTAND WHATS HAPPENING AND WHY...)

We actually shot it July 2007 but last years summer was a washout (which is why its not a bait summertime video) and we got it back late august anyway so it was long to release it then..so I was patient and decided to release it 08 summer (this year).

Then in january, I decided to do another video to release BEFORE summertime to sorta get my name out there so that when summertime dropped, I was already kinda established so I wouldnt have problems getting it played as soon as I needed it played (summertime songs need to be played in the summertime...its all about timing).

HOWEVER, because of uncontrollable circumstances, I didnt get to shoot this new video until late april and then the editing ran all the way into july (the new video looks HEAVY by the way...just taking long to edit because alot of peops are doing favours)

This forced me though, to double BACK and just release summertime first because I couldnt risk timing it wrong and releasing summertime too late.

HOWEVER, when i sent it to channel u, I sent on a digi beta tape which they dont accept - it took them a couple weeks to email me back and tell me this....

The clock is ticking...

Sooo I had to get it put onto a mini DV.

I asked the people editing the new video to do this for me seeing as they had a copy of summertime in the studios already....

They informed me that my master tapes of the summertime are in NTSC (American) format and there machines cant copy them to PAL (English) format.

A good friend got it sorted a couple days later (summertime clock still ticking) to get converted at some other studios but when i got there (after working a 15 hour day), it was copied from Digi beta tape to the mini dv tape that I needed, only with a big NTSC sticker on it (STILL IN AMERICAN FORMAT!!! AHHHHHHHHH)

Clock still ticking....

Couple days later, another friend gets it to someone else to convert it and also takes it directly to channel U offices for me (Shout out to E!).

Two weeks later and after I return from Ayia napa, the video still isnt playing on air!?!?!

I contact channel U who inform me that when they viewed the tape....it was blank...

(Summertime clock still ticking...past the first week of august now!!)

So I go to the channel U offices, swap the tape with another copy only to find out that the supposed blank tape had the video on it - all they had to do was rewind the tape about 30 seconds!!!!

Which brings us to now....9th august and the summertime video STILL hasnt got airplay - should be on by next week but considering I waited a WHOLE YEAR to get my timing right, u can understand my frustration.

Sorry about the long post - just had to vent!!

'Cisive

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