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The student experience on Cream City Soundcheck~

docuwm — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 22:10:14 +0000

Check out this video of doc|UWM students talking about their experience working on Cream City Soundcheck!

Cream City Soundcheck Nearing Completion

docuwm — Thu, 10 Nov 2011 19:37:08 +0000

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

docuwm — Mon, 16 May 2011 08:00:20 +0000

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

Ryan Sarnowski — Fri, 13 May 2011 20:48:39 +0000

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

Ryan Sarnowski — Fri, 15 Apr 2011 15:25:03 +0000

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

docuwm — Wed, 23 Mar 2011 14:38:22 +0000

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

docuwm — Mon, 14 Mar 2011 20:51:38 +0000

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

docuwm — Mon, 14 Mar 2011 20:51:16 +0000

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

Ryan Sarnowski — Fri, 11 Mar 2011 18:43:42 +0000

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.

I’m Not A Pilot

Holy Shit!

Mortgage Freeman

Trapper Schoepp & the Shades

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.

People of the Glass House

Ordinary Fiction

Corduroy Resignation

Fambly Fun