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Minnesota Media Arts Produces Cross-cultural Music Promotional Video for Local Arts Group "Harmonic Convergence"
Harmonic Convergence combines the Black and Jewish experience, through music and song. Founding members of the Grammy Award winning Sounds of Blackness / Vocal Essence were able to join their talents with Jazz Composer/Arranger Mark Bloom to celebrate the commonality of their experience. Jazz, Blues, Spirituals and Hebrew musical forms combine to joyful and inspirational performance.
Mark Bloom of HCXpression engaged James Malec and the creative team at MNMA in 2019 to produce a music video showcasing Harmonic Convergence, their high quality sound and tributes to the Jewish culture and inter-religious understanding through cross-cultural experiences.
“Jim and his team were fabulous to work with in dynamically capturing our group’s performance. Editing the final video was professional and it really showed me that he understood the creative music process. Thanks to Jim and the crew at MN Media Arts.”
-- Mark Bloom
Amazing vocal performances by Chreeze Jones, Geoff Jones, Patty Lacy
The performance was recorded in 2019 at the Minneapolis Hook and Ladder Performance Center, 3010 Minnehaha Ave,located next to the 3rd precinct police station, which was destroyed recently in 2020 in the aftermath of George Floyd’s murder in Minneapolis, MN.
Four camera set-up at Hook & Ladder stage
The four camera production was ISO recorded in HD. The set was closed
- allowing for multiple takes. The recorded files from each camera were imported to
Adobe Premier Pro Creative Cloud and edited in the multi-camera mode.
Title graphics were supplied by Mark Bloom. Additional graphics produced by Jim Malec. Closing credits moving image of the dove was purchased stock footage.
Editing in Premier Pro multi-camera mode
Adding credits in Premier Pro
Given the current need to improve communications between our diverse
cultures, Harmonic Convergence’s message is more important than ever.
Patty Lacy, Rachel Hurst, David Hurst
Ron behind the camera to left of stage, musicians Darryl Boudreaux, Mark Bloom, Kurt Saunders on right
Special thanks to volunteer production team that made this recording possible: James Malec, Ron McCoy, Randy Johnson, Kathryn Chadbourn and Mark Stanley.
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