Today I am wrapping up the final tweaks of color correction and film treatment to the music video…I’m not sure what day it will come out onto websites and wherever else it could be seen, but I’m sure it will be soon. I’ll have it posted on my site as soon as the label will allow it. It has been a learning process working on the odd work flow from Red footage into Final Cut Pro, to Color and back again. But I think the video looks great, the footage looks amazing once you add the color correction….after editing the footage in the non treated look for a few weeks, it does tend to make you question how good it will look, but the moment you step into color and crush the blacks, throw in a dash of contrast and tweak it out, it looks quite amazing. Let me know what you all think of the final product.
Posts Tagged ‘Building 429’
3/20/09 Final Deadline Day for Building 429 video “Always”.
Friday, March 20th, 20092/24/09 Day 2 of shooting the Building 429 video for “Always”
Wednesday, March 18th, 2009This morning came extremely early since I didn’t get to bed till about 1a.m. prepping for the next day. I had to get up at about 6a.m. and get to home depot. I was building a “rain rig” for the last scene of the day, I had used a similar rain rig on the Barlow girl music video and it worked really well. Then I met at location 1 with 2 gallons of coffee in hand for the cast and crew. Location 1 was at another friends house that we set dressed to look really trashed and unkept. We shot at this location till a little after lunch and then packed up and headed to location 2. Location 2 was an outdoor scene near the venue 12th and Porter. It was here that I hit a snag that I thought might ruin my final shots of the day. I had set up access to someones water supply via some hose and my rain rig. When I got to the location I found out that I would not be able to use the water supply after all. I had to quickly get on the phone with landscaping companies and mobile car detailers (who often carry large quantities of water in their trucks) I finally got a mobile detailer named Roscoe Jones at A-1 Mobile Detailing (hire him) he does mobile detailing and pressure washing. He came to the rescue and stayed from about 4p.m. till we finished at about 11p.m. I didn’t get to use my rain rig, but I think his nozzle settings worked well on his pressure wash. All in all, I think the day was a success and we wrapped the shoot at about 11p.m. I got home at around 12:30 after cleaning up and breaking down. I believe the video will look great when it is all said and done. Check out the photos on my photo page to see some shots from the day.
2/23/09 Day 1 of shooting the Building 429 video for “Always”
Wednesday, March 18th, 2009Today started off at 7a.m. as I got everything together for the 1st day of shooting. Our first location was in a subdivision in Franklin, we shot out by a swing set and then did a few set ups inside the house of some friends from church. This is my first experience shooting on the hot new camera called Red. It is an amazing camera, the footage has to be treated very much like film, it won’t look really amazing until we color correct it all in post, but even in its RAW form it looks pretty great. Around Dinner time, we moved from that location to INO Records (Building 429’s record label). We dressed the label up to look like an adoption agency and shot the remainder of the day there. Day 1 was good, we wrapped at about 10:30p.m. and headed home to catch a few hours of sleep before day 2. Check my photos page to see some shots from the day.
