Yesterday me and Jason Haberman from what310.com shot a music video; it was freakin crazy.
Jason booked me for the shoot 3 weeks in advance. He sent an email with the song and the treatment. We put together a gear list, the gear that we used was mostly run and gun stuff with a couple things to film a live performance from the band at a bar at night. This is a list of the gear that you can rent from AGrip that we used:
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Steadicam
Large reflector Disc
8'x8' frame w/ ultrabounce/silver checker
2 1K's
1 650W Fresnel
1 300W Fresnel
2 150W Fresnel
1 Kino Flo Diva 400
2 8' straight track
Doorway dolly w/skate track wheels
2 Litepanel Mini's
Crate of stingers
The truck was loaded and I was headed to Inglewood at 80 mph at 7:30am on Sunday October 30th. When I got there, we headed to the neighborhood that we would film our first shot in. It was a quiet and nice neighborhood in the South Bay area. The house we were shooting in front of was a pretty nice suburban house with some fun Halloween decorations. We set up 16' of track on the sidewalk across the street and then we waited for the band to start getting there. Some of the band members were late and either hung over or drunk from the night before. Soon the car that we would be using showed up. It was a pretty funny little car, perfect for the shoot. It was a hatch back, white, old, smog problem, and really jalopyish. We filmed a shot dollying over on the track of the car pull up to the sidewalk to pick up this chic as she came out of the front door. The band member that drove was slightly inebriated and he could barely drive. He ended up driving the car up onto the curb and stopping it too fast. The girl got in and they drove off. It was really funny and totally ridiculous and unexpected.
This music video had a certain style to the production that I like. We did run and gun story line stuff in multiple locations for the first part of the day and then we took a break and ate lunch around 3pm, then we lit up the performance scene at the bar and shot that footage from 6 to 8pm. Then it was a wrap. Jason did a great job cutting this. Take a look at the color grading and light replacement work that Jason did. We shot nice looking footage but Jason also made the footage look great in post and the combination of quality raw images and good color grading made this 7D footage look great.
Something important to note: This music video was shot on SUNDAY October 30th and completely finished and online by WEDNESDAY! November 2nd!!!... Jason Haberman is a music video editor that gets it done. He does good work but also, crucial to this industry, he keeps projects out of the Vortex. (Vortex: [vawr-teks]noun,plural-tex·es,-ti·ces / in Music video - A situation where the project that you have put the sweat of your life into, goes into a metaphysical place where it is never released to the public and if it is, it is released so late that it is no longer relevant.)
Seriously people, hire Jason Haberman and keep your hard work out of the Vortex!!!
Hire AGrip.net and What310.com to make YOUR next punk rock video (or any genre... hire us and its onnnn)
http://youtu.be/LOYr9JHG0pI
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