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Gotta Groove Records - Groove With Us

A short documentary about a new vinyl pressing plant in Cleveland Ohio, called "Gotta Groove Records". They specialize in 7" and 12" Vinyl creation/manufacturing using PVC molding. Check them out here:

gottagrooverecords.com

Dir: Nick Cavalier (Brainfish Studios)
Dir. Of Photography/P.A.: Matt Murphy (Northcoast Studios)
Editor: Nick Cavalier

Special thanks to Matt Murphy for all of his help on set. Also to: Vince Slasarz, Tyler Kremberg, Matt Early and Dan Greathouse for all of the support and cooperation.

nickcavalier.com
brainfishstudios.com


June 7th 2010 UPDATE:

I am proud to announce the success of this video since release.

It was featured on NOTCOT as an exceptional piece of documentary video:

notcot.org/post/28320/

It was also featured on Make Online:

blog.makezine.com/archive/2010/02/how_vinyl_records_are_made.html

National exposure is good!

Thanks to Everyone involved!

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  • patternbased (joseph minadeo) 2 years ago
    very cool
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  • Nick Cavalier plus 2 years ago
    thanks!
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  • Darrin Roberts 2 years ago
    There's something about records, turntables, and manufacturing that looks great -- cheers on a cool piece of work!

    Great work. Can you let a fellow filmmaker in on the cameras and color tweaking you did to achieve the look, beyond the film dust & scratches effect?
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  • Nick Cavalier plus 2 years ago
    thanks! I shot with a canon eos 7d with a follow focus rig, and the interviews were shot with the pansonic HVX 200a. Looks were achieved via Adobe after effects using adjustment layers for levels and curves.
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  • Giulio Sciorio plus 2 years ago
    Beautifully done.
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  • Nick Cavalier plus 2 years ago
    thanks so much guys!
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  • James Lewin 2 years ago
    Cool - I shared this on Synthtopia:

    synthtopia.com/content/2010/02/07/the-newest-vinyl-record-plant-in-the-us/
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  • Nick Cavalier plus 2 years ago
    Thanks for the blog love!
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  • xkopp 2 years ago
    Hi, I like the filmlook in the manufacturing, the grading is great. Why didn't you use the 7D in the interviews? It looks very video-like, too sharp and the lightsetup is very bizarre.
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  • Nick Cavalier plus 2 years ago
    thanks!

    I didn't use the 7D for the interviews because I needed quality audio. we used an xlr dynamic boom for that so the easiest way was to use the HVX.
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  • Kevin Fann 2 years ago
    Very nice short documentary, Nick. I really dig the topic and like your film work too. After Effects is a great post production tool, but a little heavy on the processing side when applying effects to long stretches of video. What's your hardware and software config?
    You should look into recording artists that are true to the non-digital analogue ways of recording. I'm sure there is a story there to tell.
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  • Axel Anderson 1 year ago
    awesome! always glad to hear and see people making vinyl
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  • Nick Cavalier plus 1 year ago
    Thanks Kevin. I am on a stock intel mac pro 2 gigs of ram running after effects cs4
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  • Nuno Bispo 1 year ago
    As a DJ I definetely praise the value of vinyl records.
    Never realize indeed how the manufacture process was.
    Each records is a wonderful piece of art, and doesn't fell great and kind of magic to have a vinyl record these days??
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  • Handsome Lady Records 4 months ago
    Hey guys - thanks for the great work you did on my record. Just set down a cup of tea on one of the coasters you sent and stumbled upon you hear on Vimeo, hope all's well!

    Will Knox
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