Check out this video of doc|UWM students talking about their experience working on Cream City Soundcheck!
Cream City Soundcheck Nearing Completion
November 10, 2011
The past few months have been very exciting. Students have been working hard throughout the summer and fall semester to wrap-up post-production. With both the videos and website nearing completion, we look forward to the highly anticipated debut of the Cream City Soundcheck project!
Students working on the Cream City Soundcheck website construction.
Website Coming Soon
Check out this screenshot from Cream City Soundcheck's animated intro
Cream City Soundcheck Round Up
May 16, 2011
The end of the semester here and, as we head into summer post-production, doc|UWM wants to share some moments from the videos that are in progress now. Many thanks to the bands who opened up their tour moments to us and we hear that they’ve all had a great time roaming our city with doc|UWM teams in tow.
Yacht on a yacht on Lake Michigan!
Yacht on stage at Turner Hall
The Generationals stop for lunch in Milwaukee at the Palamino
Ted from the Generationals on the Turner Hall stage
Kings Go Forth plays to the crowd
Maritime makes a rock and roll exit from Turner Hall Stage
Going old school with Paul Cebar on 16mm film.
Cream City Soundcheck with YACHT
May 13, 2011
Yacht makes landfall in Milwaukee
Last Friday a crew of doc|UWM students spent the evening documenting Portland based band YACHT before and during their show at Turner Hall.
As a prelude to YACHT’s high energy show we took the band on a leisurely boat ride courtesy of Capt. Rick and his Adventure Charter Boat, the Mai Tai. We cruised along the Lake Michigan coast before docking at Barnacle Bud’s. From there the band made a quick stop at Sky High Gallery to check out the opening of Monica Canilao’s installation.
Yacht with Monica Canilao and doc|UWM crew at Skyhigh Gallery
We quickly got the band back to Turner Hall so they could play their show.
Kyle Probst, doc|UWM, on stage with Yacht.
YACHT on stage at Turner Hall, video still.
Cream City Soundcheck with Generationals
April 15, 2011
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The New Orleans band Generationals rolled into Milwaukee this week. A crew of doc|UWM students took the band on a whirlwind tour of the town before documenting the band’s performance at Turner Hall.
Ted and Grant of Generationals
Matthew Dwyer filming Generationals
Josh Smith filming Generationals
Garrett Katerzynske filming Generationals
Ted and Grant explore Bay View. Matthew and Josh document their adventures
Garrett and Josh film Ted in Rush-Mor Records
Our Crew and Generationals
Tuesday night, our students shot with the band at Koz’s Mini-Bowl. On Wednesday we started off with lunch at Palomino. Ted got the Blue Pig. Grant got VLT with avocado. They both noshed on fried pickle spears and fried cheese curds. Everything got washed down with some Palomino White from Lakefront Brewery. After lunch we we trekked over to Hi-Fi Cafe for coffee, did some record shopping in Rush-Mor Records, tried on hats in Luv Unlimited and found a Squeeze album at Bay View Books and Records. After the band loaded in at Turner Hall they ran over to Buck Bradley’s to see the longest bar east of the Mississippi. Of course our students and their cameras were there to document it all. In total we spent about 14 hours with the band. Now comes the challenge of editing this down into a few short minutes. But, before we get started on that we want to thank all the establishments we visited and of course, we want to thank Generationals for being such good sports.
Stay tuned for the video. While you wait check out the music of Generationals and if you are in Milwaukee please stop by all the places we’ve mentioned.
Trapper Schoepp and The Shades
March 23, 2011
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In preparation for our new series of music documentaries Cream City Sound Check our students are practicing their documentary skills by filming local Milwaukee bands. Four teams chose four local bands to document in their city, playing their music, and giving us all a look at what they connect to here in Milwaukee. This is a rough edit of work in progress as doc|UWM students work with local acts in preparation for visiting acts coming to the Pabst and Turner Hall this Spring.
Student filmmakers Matthew Dwyer, Garrett Katerzynske, Mitch Keller, and Josh Smith document the music of Trapper Schoepp & The Shades, explore what it means to be an independent band in Milwaukee and take a trip to Downtown Books.
Mucca Pazza
March 14, 2011
Mucca Pazza was so high-energy that it was tough to get in to document our crew:
They played to a packed floor for 88.9′s Fat Tuesday event.
I’m Not A Pilot
March 14, 2011
Victor Buell gets ready to shoot at Linneman’s for I’m Not a Pilot. I’m Not A Pilot arranged a show for this shoot and doc|UWM students to work their way towards later shoots with bands at Turner Hall and the Pabst Theater after Spring Break. Thanks!
Thanks to all the bands
March 11, 2011
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A few weeks we reached out to local musicians, asking them to help our students get some experience documenting musical acts. I’m happy to announce that our four teams have selected the following bands to document.
A very special thanks to the following performers and bands who offered to open up their lives and their music to our students. Our hope is that the Cream City Soundcheck project goes so well that we’ll to get to do this again some other semester and hopefully then we can get to know some of these other local musical acts. Hopefully, you will take the time to check a few of them out right now.
Thank you all!
Kings Go Forth – Cream City Soundcheck is There
February 28, 2011
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Ryan and Kurt discuss the interview settings:
Andy Noble from Kings Go Forth, being interviewed.
Garrett on stage:
Olivia on stage:
Matt and Josh watching the master shot:
Keil on stage:
