Sorry for the follow up, guys. My sched's been hell lately. So here goes the second installment:
PAR 2: KORO
Music Video
Artist: Greyhoundz feat. GLoc 9 and Francism (RIP)
Format: 24P, SD
Camera Used: Panasonic DVX100
Director, Cinematographer and Co-Editor: OGi Sugatan
When the boys of Greyhoundz asked me to make a music video for their then new album, they told me to just express my thoughts and ideology about what I think of the song: no rules, no compromise, just pure expression. The music is all about being in the dark with all the crap the society (and kapwa pinoys) give, I thought of the movie Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless mind in a heartbeat. I pegged the "erasing the memories" segments inside Joel's (Jim Carrey) mind as a jump-off point where just one spot-key light was used to convey an "inside the mind" visual treatment. It's like "the light at the end of the tunnel but the difference is that light source isn't at the end but rather following the character/s.
Here's a visual reference:
VIDEO
I used a handheld Omni light, a 350 watter light source wrapped with a diffuser called a 216 (it's like a tracing paper but now quite. really used specifically in pro lighting) and "*snooted" it with a black cartolina in all of the interior shots. Now, to make it more dramatic, I used smoke and backlit it with a 2K Blondie. Since it's self-produced (by Greyhoundz and my production house, Brass Knuckles), obviously funds were low, instead of using a smoke machine (which is really expensive rented) we made smoke guerilla style: uling (coal) + baby oil.
Effective but not lung friendly. We have to get out and clear the smoke with a huge electric fan to be able to set up for another shot.
All exterior shots of the dreadlocked man crawling were all done guerilla style. Yung tipong hinahabol kami ng guards sa Ortigas Center.
I graded the video in post. Saturated bright colors too. Almost monochromatic. Almost. On the interior shots. As for the look of the crawling man's sequences, I chose to make it look like an old Super 8mm film which i liked so much.
Though I really liked the lighting and visual treatment, the most interesting thing about this video, if you notice, is the syncopation of the video to the audio. I shot the video in normal speed (29.97 fps is the standard frame rate for video) while speeding up or slowing down the music on playback. Meaning, during the shoot, the singers (or rappers) perform the song parts in different speeds so that when I edit-in the video to the audio in post, it'll have that weird jerky effect while still being synced. Noice. At that time variable shooting rate in video was not yet possible unlike these days so i did all the "daya" in post.
We were lucky that Sienna College allowed us to shoot in their halls and "vandalize" on the walls. Sadly, the cleaning up took longer that the shoot itself. Haha.
There you go. God bless you all.
* A Snoot is a contraption that you put in light sources to have that "spot" effect.