New Music Video shot on F3!

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Nick Harris

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Whata doozy this one was. Went out to Austin to shoot this video for my friends in Black Bone Child. They had a white cyc wall studio for available free but after I heard the song I said "if I'm dragging my ass all the way out to Austin to direct your video, we're doing something worth our time and not just shooting you in a gap ad."

I came up with the concept and told them a minimal budget would get us what we'd need. They agreed but any band is really a committee so despite the lead singer being on board with it, they were fighting me every step of the way (they had $2500 saved up for a Europe tour that they didn't want to spend). So when i got out there I found I had lights but no gaffer, dolly but no one to push it, or any real crew besides a makeup artist who was begrudgingly accepting $150/day for makeup and hair. It was a crazy challenge but we did it and once everyone saw the final product they all realized what I'd been trying to do for them.

Ultimately I was the Director, and given two hands to help me light that had never touched a light in their lives... i was also the DP, gaffer, focus puller, steadicam operator, and finally editor. Turnaround from concept to completion was a week and a half. Enjoy :)

www.vimeo.com/nickharris/bbc

-Nick Harris
 
I'm not going to incriminate myself in a public forum... but I'm sure you have great intuition. Thanks for watching!

-Nick
 
Great job! Wouldn't have guessed that you had such a limited crew. Of course there could have been a bit more light in the bar scene but other than that just great. I was also surprised how good the slow motion shots held up next to full hd. What kind of steadicam setup are you using?
 
Thank you badlaa, yeah that bar scene kills me. Definitely one of those parts that we were just pressed for time and I had to get the Glidecam up and balanced. Haha, I definitely never want to go through that experience again, although it did feel good to prove to myself and the universe that I'm capable of handling all that ;)

I use a Glidecam 4000 with their Smooth Shooter vest and arm. Pretty bottom of the line setup but it gets the job done. I bought it for about 2 grand back in 2005 for my Canon XL2 when I'd just started and now that the camera quality is going up, while camera size is going down it's become very useful again! I'm starting to take my steadicam work pretty seriously now so it's definitely time to upgrade to a more respectable rig, but you can't argue with results and without this little guy this video would have been a joke. Really does make all the difference!
 
Like the look at about 1min20 -sunny, outside, long shot looks amzing. Not a fun of this very blue bits- Vimeo looks very compressed :(
 
Thanks everyone!!! Kolak, I agree that my favorite shots are the exteriors where he's being dragged out of his house. I'm going back in for another round on the DaVinci, the blacks seem too crushed on my computer whereas in the grading monitor they looked perfect. Also when you export to quicktime there's a gamma difference that was slightly overcompensated when I compressed to H.264 for vimeo. I had been toying with reintroducing a touch of color, but the desaturated blue look is a stylistic choice that comes down to personal taste. Was going for a Traffic/Payback feel.
 
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