Here’s the official video for the charity song, Haiti Child, which I shot and cut. Full time nurse Elaine Doonan from Kerry wrote the song after hearing of how a 22 day old child was found alive beneath the rubble, 7 days after the devastating earthquake in Haiti. You can read more about the song, and everyone involved with, it here. It’s a brilliant song that has been in my head since I heard it live on it’s pubic debut.

There’s a great vitality to the song that hit me when I was recording the live version weeks before and I looked to capture that during the studio shoot and especially through the edit.

I shot the video during the one day recording session in Dublin (while tip-toeing around the wooden-floored recording rooms in my socks) using the Canon 7D SLR and a basic Canon 50mm, 1.8 EF lens. I wasn’t shooting in so much as ‘low light’ as I was in ‘no light’! The musicians preferred to work in near darkness (except for Davey on the mandolin, who not only had all the lights on but also had a 3-bar heater on full belt, in case his tan faded or something), which meant that despite the 1.8 lens I was on 1/30 sec and had to blast the ISO up to 4,000, though the noise level was very acceptable, for video anyway.

Enjoy, it’s a great song.

***Update*** March 5th, Haiti Child has entered the Irish Charts at number 29, here’s hoping for more success!