December 28, 2010
December 25, 2010
Young Sid 'YOU' music video.
Merry Christmas & Happy Holidays to everyone from goodLife. We thought on this day where we celebrate & value our family & whanau, it was a good time to release & recall that not everyone has warmth & love in their homes. This is a crucial song, one of Sid's best & a video I'm very proud of & in many ways is a sibling to the video I made for Smashproof, 'Brother' two years ago. It premiered two days ago exclusive to the NZ Herald. Catch his words & hava safe holiday, which is all that kiwi kids can wish for.
director : Chris Graham @ goodLife.
producer: Claire Campbell
dop's: Brett Nichols, Andrew Stroud
cam asst: Sophie Musgrove
lighting: Richie Pause Rich
editor: Nathan Pickles
colourist: Dave McClaren
flame VFX: Andy Dill
post pro: Amy Molloy, Steen Bech
Thanks for the support from : goodLife, Oktobor, Maori TV, Fat Productions & Stich,
Haley & the cast of youth from Clover Park School, Otara.
December 18, 2010
Sneak Peak at Scarlet [mini RED camera]
Ive been shooting most of the last two years on the RED camera, even though my true love is still 35mm. But for a high ratio shooting, like a lot of the documentary & doco style Ads I'm shooting have been, the Red is a great tool. the Scarlet is the anticipated smaller, more agile handheld Red cam. Still unreleased, but this is the 1st peek at her.
December 17, 2010
Stills from the Young Sid vid shoot for YOU.
Second night in a row that we are editing through the long morning hours, a reflection of just how busy December is. YOU has been an unconventional formation of a video, since it started when I shot Sid & Sicc at their house in Otara back in May for the 'Sounds of Hope' about NZ's child abuse pandemic. [You can see scenes from our Doco here.] Then Kirk Harding called asking if I could make a music video out of the Doco footage we shot of Sid's acapella of the song YOU. The sync drifted some but we figured we could. So we shot Deach the week after. Then I got busy in Ad land, MTC hit up NZ on fAir for funding, I was down with knee surgery & 6 months later in November we shot the other half of the video.
Hayley & the good fam at Clover Park school in Otara helped us find a dozen great kids to memorise the song over a few days, then we returned to shoot these kids deliver Sid's crucial message. As you can see, a wide range of talented & gorgeous youth learnt the song for the shoot, although most knew it already as Sid being a local hero having attended this school as a kid. He was in NYC working on the new album when we shot this, but Tyree, Juse & Aaron repped. It was a great day in the SA sun, thanks to a generous & skilled crew, the school, Twice as Nice for a emotive beat & Sid for a deep track, silver scroll worthy. Its also my first music video in nearly two years since I made this one. No doubt, after we complete post, MTC will announce when they will drop this video next week sometime for You.
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