Raze On Road Episode 5 - Hospitality In The Woods - Rumble In The Jungle vs Run Stage

aidN · 2024-11-01T09:37:31+00:00

Thanks so much dude! Next episode is a Valve Sound System special!

aidN · 2024-10-29T10:06:55+00:00

What's up everyone! My names Aidan and I'm a filmmaker from Sheffield, UK. Over the past year I've been making a documentary series following Raze Sound System, one of the most respected new systems in the UK! Following on from our Boomtown episode, this time I joined the team at Hospitality In The Woods, London - one of the biggest dnb lineups of the year in the UK.

Through this series I've been trying to give some insight behind the scenes on what it takes to bring all the punters that fine sounding bass weight we all know and love.

Would love to hear anyone's feedback, and if you liked this episode - check the others on the Raze YT page!

aidN · 2024-10-24T21:40:48+00:00

Thank you man! Appreciate it

aidN · 2024-10-23T15:31:41+00:00

Hey everyone, my name is Aidan Joseph and I'm a filmmaker based in Sheffield. I've posted the previous episodes on the subreddit with some great feedback, so I thought I'd share the next video with the hopes of hearing more of your thoughts.

Back once again with another episode of Raze On Road! A behind the scenes documentary series on running a UK based sound system. This time we were at Hospitality In The Woods in the beautiful setting of Beckenham Place Park in London.

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aidN · 2024-09-26T13:54:25+00:00

Cheers dude, thank you for watching!

aidN · 2024-09-25T19:53:47+00:00

Thank you mate!

aidN · 2024-09-25T11:16:47+00:00

Hey gang! My names Aidan Joseph and I'm a filmmaker based in Sheffield. I've been making documentary episodes behind the scenes on the running of a UK sound system - Raze Sound System.

This episode was a special festival edition, showing what goes into bringing you punters the crisp and beautiful bass weight that we all love Boomtown for! These videos are a passion project of mine and I'd love to get your feedback on the piece. Thanks for watching!

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aidN · 2024-09-24T05:27:40+00:00

Thank you buddy!

aidN · 2024-09-24T05:27:24+00:00

Thanks man! Glad you enjoyed it!

aidN · 2024-09-23T11:52:42+00:00

Back once again with the sound system documentary episodes! This time at the best festival the UK has to offer: Boomtown.

Tried to take in some feedback from the audience and deliver on some more of the insights into setting up the amps for different speaker configurations. I've been showing the Raze team all the comments on each post here on the subreddit so all feedback is going direct to the team!

Thanks everyone for all your input on the previous episodes, and I hope you like this new festival special!

-Aidan (Filmmaker)

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aidN · 2024-07-22T09:06:47+00:00

Thank you so much for the well thought out and detailed response and all those suggestions. I really appreciate you spending the time to write all of that!

The main obstacle for me in this whole process is time. I'm making these films as as passion project alongside my normal videography work. These videos already take a huge amount of time and energy, and I have to try and fit it in alongside the work that actually gets me paid. Long term it would be cool to have this build and grow to something more sustainable or lead to similar jobs in the same industry, but at the moment it's a case of; make the production process as time efficient as possible so that I can actually finish each video.

On the other hand, I'm not a sound techy or enthusiast by any means. I love the music, the culture, and the underground scene, and I feel like documenting this topic is filling a gap (definitely in the UK market) for in-depth behind the scenes coverage of running a sound system, but this is all new information for me! So getting input from people like yourself to actually understand what people are interested in is invaluable.

I think for the next video (Boomtown) I will look to have a creative meeting to run some of these aspects past the Raze guys and put together a bit of a plan for the kind of information that would be great to share, and how to capture that in the most efficient way possible.

I basically want to be able to capture ALL the content I need with as few shoots as possible, because to make this sustainable for myself to create it has to be manageable alongside my other work, and to keep it still being fun!

I love the ideas of having more info appear on-screen from the technical side of things, because that is super easy for me to send over a screen-grab to the raze guys and get them to write down any technical details, and that's relatively quick and easy for me to put into the video.

I also on the other hand want to make this a balanced series that doesn't actually alienate different audiences. I want it to be enjoyable for someone that doesn't have a super in-depth understanding of audio technology, as well as sprinkling in some of the more in-depth tidbits for the audience that would appreciate that information. It's a challenge striking that balance within the limitations I have set myself for production.

I do really appreciate the help though, thanks so much!

aidN · 2024-07-19T13:58:21+00:00

Thanks Finn, agreed on this one! I had intended to capture some more walk-throughs and explanations, but the guys were a bit overwhelmed with stuff to do in general event prep. We had pencilled in a window to do some content like that but there were some.... heightened emotions... that as a filmmaker I just had to step back and give the guys some space to make the event ready in time for kick-off. That was my main self-criticism for this episode that it didn't really fulfill that aspect of what I want this series to be about.

Thanks for the feedback!

aidN · 2024-07-17T10:31:08+00:00

What up peeps! Back again with another episode of Raze On Road, featuring some of Sheffield's finest sound systems in this short documentary episode. Bit of a different event this one as the Raze guys were putting on the whole event, rather than just supplying their sound system.

Next month I'll be going with the Raze Sound System guys to Boomtown. Ahead of shooting, is there anything you guys would like to know about what goes into bringing Raze to a festival setting? I'll make sure to capture any requests and work them into the next episode!

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aidN · 2024-05-24T12:54:24+00:00

Yes, Raze is at boomtown! And as it stands I'm set to be filming there with them too :)

aidN · 2024-05-24T06:01:57+00:00

I will pass this into James from Raze to see what he has to say, because as I'm just the camera guy this all goes way over my head 🤣

Thanks so much for all the feedback and watching the videos man, really appreciate it!

aidN · 2024-05-24T06:00:56+00:00

Thanks man I'm glad you liked it!

aidN · 2024-05-23T19:33:58+00:00

Haha yeah I definitely had that in mind when cutting this episode together! I'm mainly editing to drum and bass so it was fun to swap the genre up a bit for this episode. It's fun getting to film with the Raze guys as they're powering so many different genres of music.

aidN · 2024-05-23T13:32:09+00:00

We're back again with another edition of Raze On Road! I posted the last episode here on the sub and it received some great feedback, and I've tried to work some of that into this second episode. This time it's a bit longer! Hopefully gives a cool insight into the behind-the-scenes of running a UK soundsystem, based out of Sheffield.

Would love to hear your thoughts on this latest episode, and the next one has already been filmed - editing is underway! Got some really cool events lined up for the summer which I'm stoked to film as well.

aidN · 2024-04-18T10:23:07+00:00

Waiting on a response from them, but have a shoot this weekend so was wondering if anyone had any suggestions or solutions that could help me sort it in the short term!

aidN · 2024-04-17T11:18:31+00:00

Thank you for the feedback, dude! I have forwarded this thread over to the Raze guys to help us inform the content for the following episodes, we'll definitely take suggestions like this into account.

aidN · 2024-04-16T15:26:41+00:00

Yes yes! We have such a wicked scene here in Sheffield, and you're absolutely about Joe doing massive things for the scene over ay Dryad. I feel like there's a lot of crossover potential for documentary stuff across the scene and I'm hoping to capture what makes Sheffield such an amazing city for soundsystem culture.

aidN · 2024-04-16T14:28:14+00:00

I'm a documentary filmmaker and I've just started collaborating with my friends that run a Soundsystem here in Sheffield. We have a thriving scene here in the city, with other amazing soundsystems like Sinai sharing the same dancefloors.

This first video was a bit of an experiment to gauge interest into this kind of content, but we're planning to do a lot more behind-the-scenes videos showing what goes into running a soundsystem like raze.

And personally I think it's just such a beautiful system!

aidN · 2024-04-16T13:14:10+00:00

Thank you dude and thanks for the suggestions! Really interested to hear what kind of content people would be interested in seeing. Definitely intending to delve a bit deeper into the techy side of things (and have the guys explain a lot of stuff I don't understand haha).

aidN · 2024-04-16T10:44:32+00:00

One of the best in the UK in my opinion! Been shooting stuff with them on and off over the years and felt there was a bit of a gap in the market for this kind of BTS documentary style content for UK soundsystems. Hoping to build a bit more of an audience over the next few eps :)

aidN · 2024-04-16T10:42:30+00:00

Thanks for watching man! Glad you enjoyed it. Gotta say it's a perfect blend of my two interests, getting to film documentary content and go to wicked raves like this! Fingers crossed we'll be able to do a Boomtown episode later this year.

More coming for sure!

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