Smirnoff Jo’burg Documentary
On May 12th 2010, the good people at Splendid Communications sent me on a media trip to Johannesburg, South Africa as part of the Smirnoff Experience.
The video journo in me has finally completed a mini-documentary on the event itself; as well as interviewing Tiësto, playing with baby lion cubs, biking around Soweto village, and nights out, among other things.
I’m uber excited to share it with y’all! So if you can spare 9.58m of your life, I recommend you watch it in 720p HD (or a minimum setting of 480p), otherwise it looks super dodge due to YouTube’s compression.
CONTENTS:
0.01 - Recap montage
1.26 - Smirnoff Experience Media Conference feat. Tiësto and BLK JKS
2.15 - Interviewing DJ Ashton Abels for TV with Sweet Spot Content
3.11 - Baby Lion Cub Day, Hurrah! (South African Safari)
4.37 - Smirnoff Experience Mashup Street Johannesburg Event feat. Tiësto and BLK JKS
5.46 - Tiësto live, front row baby!
6.28 - 2-hour Soweto Village Bike Tour (feat. Francisco’s amazing muscles)
7.26 - Beer Tasting Ritual with Soweto locals
7.50 - Reflecting back home on Soweto Village
9.12 - Thank you and shout outs xoxo.
MUSICSCAPE:
1. Etienne de Crecy – Welcome (The Bloody Beetroots Remix)
2. Tiësto vs. BLK JKS – Dreaming
3. The Ashton Shuffle – I Wanna See You (Harvard Bass Remix)
4. The Cure – Just Like Heaven
5. Red Riders – So Long
6. Eric Prydz – Pjanoo (DJ Nejtrino & Stranger Mix)
7. Deadmau5 – FML (Original Mix)
8. Coldplay – High Speed
9. Brandon Boyd – Runaway Train
Really quite good video, Mish! Covers the trip quite well. Some funny moments too!
Thanks for sharing, I found this story while surfing for free lyrics, interesting comments and good points made.
So that’s what all the video taping was for – major kudos Michelle, that was a great reminiscence of a brilliant experience. Well done, really loved it – and meeting you! x
Loved it!
Entertaining from the first second! Congrats Mish! xxx Looking forward to seeing more of your work!
Good lead-in to an experience I can see you’ll always remember Mish. Overall an excellent and educational video. Appreciated your insightful comments. Well done!
Aww, thanks guys. I’m so glad you liked it! It was great not only being in the position I was in, but to share my experience with y’all xoxo.
Darragh – your cameo in my vid was a real treat. Do let me know when you visit Australia
Just had to watch this vid again. The change of pace and background music with the different situations is brilliant. Bondi Beach interspersed with Third World Africa – a real thought provoking segment.
My thanks also go to Smirnoff for giving you this video making opportunity.
Mish,
That was very well done, and it was incredibly cool that you were the star. I enjoyed watching it. Thanks for sharing it with me. I just got a chance to view it.
Gennaro
Looks like you had a ball mishy – congratulations on great interviews, footage and exposurwe to a part of the world I’ve never seen.
Hey Mishy,
Really great work with the edit WOW, it looks amazing and love how you captured your entire stay and our beautiful country South Africa.
The Smirnoff Experience was quite and epic Experience for us locals too !!!
Looking forward to seeing you in Aussie with cool cat “Dj Ashton Abels”… xoxo