Sunday, August 29, 2010

Out of Batteries

This really is one of my favorite videos to date...I just think it turned out exactly how I wanted it to. I storyboarded it (I can't conceive of a project without proper storyboards), and shot and edited the thing, and got Mike Davis and Tom Sifuentez to star in it.

Shooting consisted of one, four-hour shoot that included all the indoors shots and outside parts. The inside shoots had few complications - there was a slight color-correction that was needed to get rid of blue hues in one of the rooms, and that was done during post-production. Since there was only one real scene to shoot outside (the final confrontation) it was overlooked that a mic of some kind would be needed. The on-camera mic would not have sufficed, so the audio was later dubbed over and syched up with the video.

Editing went smoothly, since the storyboards were done in a concise and professional manner. I had a slight dilemma with the audio. The project was conceived and designed around the musician Beck's 8-bit remixes of a few of his songs, but I don't exactly have the rights to his music. (Damn you UMG!) So I mixed my own audio track to emulate the feeling of those songs. Later, It was obvious that there was no subsitute for the REAL Beck, so an alternate version was produced utilizing "8-Bit Variations in B-Flat" and "Bad Cartridge". This was for a school project, so no one should get too mad at me...

If I had to change anything - I would of course get that microphone (boom mic) to get that famous one-liner.

Here is a direct link to the video with Beck's Music (UMG won't allow the video to be embedded on any website...jerks) Click Here!

Here is the video with the music I mixed:

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