A Drop Dead Star Makes a Music Video or Never Try This In The Woods
So remember last week when I mentioned I was going to be making an “animal suit” music video over the weekend?
No? Awesome, thanks for reading.
Well, I did and I’ve been recovering for the rest of this week. It was probably the most draining music video I’ve been on yet. To begin with, the crew was only five people, and we had some of our reserved lighting equipment given to someone else. Normally this wouldn’t be all that bad and Pat, my director of photography, would find a clever way to cope (for instance, crying and slamming whiskey shots) but we were shooting this particular video on 16mm film instead of actual “video” and those lights were going to be key in, y’know, making the film expose.
For those of you who haven’t worked with film before–a brief lesson: motion picture film in a motion picture camera is basically just like the still film in a regular still camera, except twenty four pictures are taken every second to create the illusion of movement. Each of those pictures has to be lit with enough light to expose properly, just like on a still camera, except we don’t have the luxury of flash bulbs. Instead, filmmakers use lots of powerful lights to light scenes and blah, blah, blah. This is boring, isn’t it?
Whatever. Point is, not having the lights we needed made it extraordinarily difficult to, say, light a nighttime performance scene outside, by a bonfire. Or the basement of an abandoned chicken coop. Or anywhere that wasn’t outside during the day, really.
We did it though, and we did it with style. The animal costumes came out really well, thanks to an extraordinarily dedicated and talented band who wanted to see the video come out as well as we did. The locations are awesome, thanks to New Hampshire being beautiful. Although, we did have to drag a wrought iron sewing machine out on to a waterfall–that was rough.
I’ll post a copy of it up here when it’s done in a few weeks; I think you’ll all dig it!
Shot on a Bolex camera on Kodak 16mm film (500T, 200D and 250D)
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