{"id":811,"date":"2011-01-08T07:00:47","date_gmt":"2011-01-08T07:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shoottheplayer.com\/blog\/?p=811"},"modified":"2022-09-09T04:47:43","modified_gmt":"2022-09-09T04:47:43","slug":"scott-spark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shoottheplayer.com\/blog\/scott-spark\/","title":{"rendered":"SCOTT SPARK"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve said it before: &nbsp;we love pianos.<\/p>\n<p>But it&#8217;s not so easy to make Shoot the Player films with musicians who play them: &nbsp;the instrument isn&#8217;t exactly portable, and they aren&#8217;t generally found in the sort of places we like to shoot in, public places where musicians don&#8217;t usually perform. &nbsp;(Take a look at our <a href=\"https:\/\/shoottheplayer.com\/blog\/2009\/01\/23\/sydney-festival-2009\/\">Sydney Festival series<\/a> if you want to see what happens when pianos do start popping up unexpectedly on street corners!)<\/p>\n<div style=\"padding:56.25% 0 0 0;position:relative;\"><iframe src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/18498539?h=07fd6e82d6&amp;badge=0&amp;autopause=0&amp;player_id=0&amp;app_id=58479\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"\" style=\"position:absolute;top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%;\" title=\"Scott Spark:  Last Christmas (What Do You Say?)\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><script src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/api\/player.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>So when we shoot piano clips, we go to where the piano is &#8211; but we still always try and get away from a standard onstage performance. &nbsp;We&#8217;ve shot <a href=\"https:\/\/shoottheplayer.com\/blog\/2009\/04\/04\/amanda-palmer\/\">Amanda Palmer<\/a> in her pyjamas, playing at the Opera House before her gig, and <a href=\"https:\/\/shoottheplayer.com\/blog\/2010\/10\/30\/parades\/\">Parades<\/a> in their living room (after they kicked grandpa out.)<\/p>\n<p>Scott Spark is our latest. &nbsp;We shot the funny, friendly Brisbane performer at the piano bar at the Menzies Hotel in the Sydney CBD.<\/p>\n<p>Piano bars are great &#8211; the instruments are likely to be in tune, and they are public enough to allow for surprises. &nbsp;And they were a lovely contrast for Scott&#8217;s songs &#8211; intimate, heartfelt, personal pieces &#8211; not what you might expect to find in a hotel bar, as the post-work business people and hotel guests discovered.<\/p>\n<div style=\"padding:56.25% 0 0 0;position:relative;\"><iframe src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/18576861?h=b39dc891c2&amp;badge=0&amp;autopause=0&amp;player_id=0&amp;app_id=58479\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"\" style=\"position:absolute;top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%;\" title=\"Scott Spark:  Keep It Together\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><script src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/api\/player.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve said it before: &nbsp;we love pianos. But it&#8217;s not so easy to make Shoot the Player films with musicians who play them: &nbsp;the instrument isn&#8217;t exactly portable, and they aren&#8217;t generally found in the sort of places we like to shoot in, public places where musicians don&#8217;t usually perform. &nbsp;(Take a look at our [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[16],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shoottheplayer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/811"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shoottheplayer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shoottheplayer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shoottheplayer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shoottheplayer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=811"}],"version-history":[{"count":24,"href":"https:\/\/shoottheplayer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/811\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1001,"href":"https:\/\/shoottheplayer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/811\/revisions\/1001"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shoottheplayer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shoottheplayer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shoottheplayer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}