Dead baby bird on the sidewalk.

“A real New York injury.”

My friend had the chain snap on his bike, it whipped up and cut him good.  Right above his “Brooklyn” tattoo.

Yes.

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Penguins Chasing Laser Pointer Lights

I live in an artist community with 10 people, but we’re all moving to a new place come July 1st.  They are continuing on into a large environment, while I’m moving out and away from the group(in physicality, not in spirit, I’ll certainly be back to visit).  Anyway, thoughts of the future and change for myself as well as change that I am not taking part in have been occupying my mind.  I need to be editing this music video!

Two days ago I spent pretty much the entire day editing it, but I still see areas where it could benefit from some more attention.  I just am delaying the interaction by writing on here for the moment.  However, I am going to “get it together” after I post this self-motivational blog entry.

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Cutting together this music video.  I’m about at the halfway mark and I have no idea whether or not it’s working out!  That’s not unusual.  The band is coming over tonight so they can set me straight if anything is awry.

I just got the second pass of sound design for “The Red Box” sent to me from Jared.  It’s still not quite there yet and I sent him back a few notes on it.  Awaiting his updated version.

“The Red Box” is one of nine in my series “Stories of the Unconscious”

First, a quick overview-I’ve been working with a band to create their first music video.  They are a great group of four guys who are dedicated and creative.  Working off of a basic idea that they had, I wrote out a script treatment that defined some specific areas of the music video and gave an overall outline of action.  They worked on finding actors, locations, providing transportation, food, etc.  We had a casting call and chose the lead.  Then, as it is a somewhat ambitious project, we scheduled two weekends, or 6 days, of shooting, that would cover the different “sections” of the video that I had devised.  We have completed principal photography and now are in the editing phase.

As a sidenote—I directed, shot and am now editing this video.  It was only the band, myself and the actor that worked together to create it.

So, the music video has a bunch of different parts, effectively “scenes”.  I have already organized all the shots into their respective “scene” categories within the titling of each shot as well as within folders in Final Cut Pro.  Next, as I’m doing right now, I have to go through each shot and start picking out the best takes and then pieces of takes that I think could be used additionally, outside of their original intent.  After I finish with that, I’ll have a whole bunch of pieces that I’m quite familiar with and which are labeled for quick access as far as which shots worked out better than others.

 The band is very involved with the creation of this video, so they will be sending me specific timecode points within the song where they feel that a change or particular shot/event should occur. I believe they only have about 2-4 of these such instances.

After finishing with the overall all categorization/organization/etc. then I’ll start cutting together the particular “scenes” to get a sense of the basic flow of action.  Then I’ll take the song, place it in a separate sequence and start to lay out the content in the order it will actually appear within the video(which will inevitably mean breaking apart the “scenes” so that they stretch out, in different parts, throughout the video.)  Intercutting with the “scenes” will be the non-‘scene’ sections that are more evocative of a thought or feeling than the narrative of an action.  All of these actions/thoughts/ideas will lead up to the particulars that the band feels should occur and relate to those areas of the song.

So, anyway, moving forward…

Still working on the organization of the music video…

Organizing and converting video files for the music video I’m making with the NY based band “The Archive”

I have a music video shoot this weekend and next weekend.  We’re busy with the pre-production work.  I’m about to compile the location scouting photos we took and am trying to wrap my head around the shooting schedule.  The storyboards have been completed and we’ll be bringing all the gear home tomorrow!