The Grindhouse is an Australian based production company predominately working with clients within the music industry. We boast a passionate and driven team of directors, producers, camera operators, editors, designers and photographers who work together to create engaging, high quality content that meets and exceeds the needs of our clients.
Our services span across all screen media platforms and formats from documentaries to live performances, interviews, event coverage, website content, live streaming and much more.
RedBalloon came to us and wanted to put together a company video that showcased who they were. Something they could show to new employees and the industry. They have created such a fun and supportive work environment so we wanted to make sure we portrayed that properly. Instead of talking heads or a VO we decided to use graphics and place them within the scene. The aim was to make a viewer feel like these cores messages were apart of the business.
Sydney’s Nova 969 is a really fun client. The always seem to get us involved in the weird and wonderful, from throwing cars with a catapult to boxing matches between the talent. They came to us with a track that Fitzy & Wippa had recorded, a parody of One Direction’s “what makes you beautiful”. Our task was to shoot the music video. Man did we under estimate that power of the One Direction fan base. Within 3 days it had 100K views and after 2 weeks 350K. It seems the key to this video was the boys making fun of themselves and not the band. I can only imagine what would happen if it was the other way around. Half a million angry 14 yr old girls wouldn’t be pretty.
This project was right up our alley. Firstly we were stoked to take Google on as a client and equally as excited by the concept. Get More Into Music set out to ask local and international artists to create YouTube playlists based around musical themes. It always makes for great content in my opinion when you’re asking artists to talk about topics they love or musicians that have inspired them.
I spent 24hrs with Faker as they wrote, recorded and mixed a song that features on their latest album. It was a cool idea and was quite challenging to document, which I enjoyed…I think.
We’re suckers for a collaboration. The They Will Have Their way tour was a celebration of the music from Neil & Tim Finn. The show was really special and Clare Bowditch had us in stitches.
Whilst on the tour Paul Dempsey & Alexander Gow from Oh Mercy took some time out to share some of their thoughts about the Finns and cover one of their songs.
They say the first three years of being in business is the toughest. F*ck me I hope that’s true. I don’t think I could do another three like I’ve just had. Naively when everyone told me starting a business was tough I thought my journey would be different.
From the early days of having to dj on weekends to pay the rent all the way through to being nominated for an Aria and creating a DVD for the great John Farnham. It’s been quite a ride. Special thanks to Harry Charnock, Ash Morgan and Brad Jarrett. You guys have killed it.
We’ve had over 300 shoots and edits over the last 3 years. Here’s a couple of my favourites.
Justice Crew documentary – This one pushed everyone in my team to their limits and we somehow pulled it off.
That Moment – A simple little video we made for a competition that Getty ran. We ended up winning.
Guy Sebastian – Each doco project we have taken on we have aimed to really get to know the artist. To showcase what they are about, what drives them. At the end of this one I felt like we were getting pretty close.
It’s hard to put into words what this project was like. When I started the Grindhouse I would have never thought that one day we’d be making a DVD for John Farnham. We spent a week with John and his band as they stripped back John’s classics and re-recorded them acoustically. We put in a lot of hours but to be honest this project was easy. John is surrounded by an amazing team. His band have been with him for over 20 years and it was absolute pleasure to watch them at work. Who knows, maybe we’re getting a little better at what we do. Another superb effort by our DP Harry Charnock.
This one was just easy. Commissioned to create a mini documentary on Stonefield we set out to film them at home, rehearsing, recording and playing live. The girls were lovely, the music was great and I think this is one of the best content pieces we’ve created to date. The girls are from regional Victoria and range in age from 14 to 21. An all female, all sister rock band playing music straight out of the 70s…the video basically made itself.
As Eskimo Joe recorded their latest album Ghosts of the Past we travelled up to the Central Coast to The Grove studios to spend time with the guys and document the recording process. How were they approaching it differently this time and what was it about that studio and producer that worked so well?
