Music Video for "You Don't Know" from Drique London Directed by Kevin Parkinson. Cinematography Gregory D. Moore at Vinark Motion Pictures.
Music Video Tools:
Black Magic Pocket Cam
Canon T2i (Car Mounted Shots) (News Scene)
Matthews Pro Car Mount
Meta Bones Speed Ring Adaptor
Canon 50mm 1.4 F Stop
Canon 18-55mm Kit Lens
Canon 80mm-300mm
Shot in Apple Pro Res
Edited and Color Corrected in FCPX
So this Music video was the most pre production heavy video I have ever Directed. I wrote the treatment with the artist, then I wrote the script and made a shot list. I sent it over to Greg and was excited to hear his critique. He kindly said, "This sounds great, but I have no idea what you want it to look like..." I was taken back a bit, normally we totally understand each other. What Greg wanted this time around was a unique perspective, he wanted to deliver a high quality visual, and thought the best way how was to understand where my vision was and how it looked, before turning on the camera.
So I was now facing a new challenge; How do I create a new way of explaining something that does not exist? I immediatly thought of storyboards when Greg called me and said, "I hate to do it to you but we HAVE to have a story board for this. I was frustrated, but Greg was right. Now when it comes to storyboards, I love them, but how do you make them extremely detailed and rich? Show angles and not have to spend the hours to draw it out? I Know, Mega Man!
Please allow me to explain just what in the world I am talking about. I took a day to search my mind for ideas to create a 3D storyboard on a 2d surface. I did not want to physically draw out each scene, and I wanted depth. So I started to Google. I don't remember how, but God willingly, I came across a message board and a few good people were talking about <a title="Google SketchUP" href="http://www.sketchup.com/?gclid=COKw6u-N0sICFYpcfgodeDIAyA">Google SketchUP</a>. It is a free 3D modeling software. BINGO! So I'm excited now, thrilled, my prayers have been answered! Now, how do you use this thing?
At first look SketchUP is very intimidating, but through the good people that bring us YoutTube Tutorials I learned how to use the software in a few hours two evenings after work. So I began to create what is Raleigh, North Carolina. A complete city, with locations similar to where we would be shooting in real life. There are a lot of prebuilt objects in the program, all for free. I found a prebuilt Mega Man and because i liked looking at it, decided to make him Drique London, the star of the music video. You just build it, maneuver your camera and make a simple screen grab from your PC keyboard. Here are a few screen grabs that ultimately allowed me to create an animatic for the complete music video.
Shout out to everyone online and in life who shares information. Information is knowledge, knowledge is power.
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