New Music Video Just Released (Canon 7D)

Awesome. :thumbsup:

The lighting was excellent and the flow of the whole video was spot on, nice work...
 
I'm not a fan of hip hop, and not huge into music video's, but that really was brilliantly done. I will probably watch it several more times over the next week. Excellent!
 
That was really excellent. The artist really has talent. Liked the song and the story and the story in the video. Everything was well executed and super professional. Great job!! Especially the ending.
 
Really sick. Great twist. Definitely helps when you have a good script, in this case the very narrative lyrics. I really liked the use of the performer as the guide throughout this story. The consideration put into this, from even just the separation in lighting, was very well directed.

How much of the performance were greenscreen shots?
 
that was garbage. what an awful video. you suck!


j/k. that video was so good and there's so much praise in this thread i wanted to go against the grain and scare ya. No that was one of the best I've seen on here. The lighting was awesome, my favorite is how you lit the guy cooler than the warmer party scene behind him in order to make him 'pop' from the scene more since he was technically narrating it and not really there. really awesome work
 
nice job man! want to reply to any of these comments?
maybe give us some insight?
lighting equipment used etc

thanks
 
Hey folks - apologies for the slow reply time. REALLY appreciate all the thoughtful feedback and questions.

First, I definitely agree about the artist/song. Hard to screw up a perfect script.

Noah: The only parts that are green screen are the first two shots (beg - 00:21) and the one shot near the end when the background changes back from the beige, page-like background to the apartment background (2:47-2:51). That shot of the girl walking at night is used to separate the green screen shot (before) from a shot against the actual background (after). Had to color correct that a tiny bit to get the color temp of the green screen shot to more closely resemble that of the non-green screen one.

omgproductionz179: I tried a couple different settings for YouTube. I believe what ended up working the best was exporting from FCP using quicktime conversion, with the prores compression. I believe I made as high a quality file as possible, which ended up at 2.81 GBs. Re lenses: I honestly don't remember. I don't believe we used more than two the entire shoot, and am pretty sure we stuck with one for the vast majority. I'd encourage you to contact the DP, Kevin McKeever, directly. Here's his website: http://image-generation.com/.

Re lighting: This was the first time I got to work with a DP (I shot all my own projects previous to this - mostly on the DVX). I agree with all of the comments on the lighting. In fact, on the first day, I was a bit anxious, having never worked with a DP before, let alone with Kevin specifically, and was concerned that there wasn't enough light in the scene. I asked him if it was possible to boost the overall amount of light (rookie nerves). He responded with a very patient explanation that all light sources in the scene should be movtivated (i.e., a small lamp coming from the corner, moonlight shining in through the window, etc.) and that if part of the room would be darker in real life, then it can and should be darker in the shot). Despite making logical sense, that wasn't quite enough to convince me, but we had people waiting, and so I had to take a bit of a leap of faith, and just put my trust in him. Needless to say, I'm glad I did, and got a crash course in lighting over the next three days. Couldn't be happier with the results (the sex scene has always especially impressed me - cool on Paul's face from the moonlight, warm by the couch from lamp light, plus some moonlight coming in the back window, etc.).

If you're interested, here are some behind the scenes photos:
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=242233&l=9b726c59fa&id=169018084625
(more photos from the other locations at http://www.facebook.com/roguesetmedia)

Again - thanks for all the nice comments. I started using this forum five years ago when I'd just picked up a camera for the first time, and will probably always come back for feedback as long as it's around. Much appreciation.

Michael Forstein
Director, Rogue Set Media
http://www.roguesetmedia.com
 
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Hi all,

I'm Kevin McKeever, the DP on the music video. To answer a couple questions, we mostly used a Canon 24-105mm L lens, and then we might have thrown on the 70-200mm for a few shots. We shot it with the 7D rather than the 5DMII because it was shot before the 24P firmware upgrade on the 5DMII. I own the 5D and shoot with it a lot, and looking back at the music video, I'm kind of amazed at how much depth of field we were able to get with the 7D. With the 5D, Paul (the artist) would not have been so sharply in focus as he moved about while singing, unless I dumped on a lot more light and adjusted the f-stop. We shot at a max of ISO 800 and I don't like to go higher than that on either camera, I think the noise starts getting too noticeable.

Lighting was all tungsten. Mostly we used my Arri kit (1K, 2x650W, 300W), a few other 1K and 600W lights for larger sets, and then rented a 3-dedolight kit. I had never worked with dedos before but was anxious to try them and Mike was game. I loved the dedos because they could be a clean, narrow kicker or a hairlight from 10+ feet away (helpful on wide shots). I always had at least one on a C-stand arm for quick placement. I even used them as a key on the girl in the bar scene when we were rushed for time and all the other lights were tied up. Thanks for all the great comments!
 
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