So this past weekend I had a wicked opportunity to help out with a friends music video shoot. He's working on some new material for his portfolio and thought I could help out as one of the main cast. Simple job really, just involving a lot of running in various parts of the city, scaling fences, looking around and staying up all night till the sun rises. All that is almost perfect for me. I love the night time and the whole thing felt a little bit like an adventure. We had it sort of like a covert operation and we the cast found out what was going on as it happened pretty much. It was a really great experience.
We had two shoots. It was meant to be one originally. The first was Thursday night. I was also asked to bring along some friends that might be able to help out as well as the main cast. I quickly figured out a few people without jobs or flexible enough schedules to make it work. I was surprised when everyone I asked came out and spent the whole night running around the city. It was such good times. We ended up having some camera problems with dreaded camera body #51 which delayed everything significantly. Aside from that problem with the body I have only good things to say about the camera. Everything was shot on a Red One. If you don't know about these cameras you must look them up. You can shoot 4k (4x full hd) at 30 frames a second. That's a lot of information! Let's just say that all the footage even when we weren't doing anything looked like gold. We wrapped the first night in this pretty creepy abandoned building. For most of the night we were all afraid to go 5 steps into the place. The sounds, the air, and the pure darkness was crazy. The sun rose and that was a wrap. A few of us went for some wicked (or not so wicked) breakfast and then went home for some major sleep.
Sunday was the second shoot. This would explain why no one saw me at ft. The call was for 6 and I thought it would be pretty rude to leave half way into a sermon. That reminds me that I can catch up online. The shoot Sunday had no camera difficulties and we had a larger crew. This means we had some spiffier lighting setups, wheelchair tracked shots and a very wicked shoot at McGregor park. Mind you the lights in the field went out about 6 minutes too early so we didn't get all of the footage we needed from there. We wrapped much earlier and seeing how some of us were still reeling from the shoot before and I was sick, we didn't stick around for breakfast. I dropped everyone home and drove to my home with the sun rising behind me. That's so cool! Sleep was good that day. I've been in recovery for most of the week. The good news is I'm probably 70% or so. I just need to stop coughing.
This Sunday should be the final shoot. The goal is to get some pickup shots to fill the story in a little bit. A new friend Ayinde that was at the first shoot but couldn't be at the second shoot on Sunday (he was in Montreal) might make an appearance. That would be pretty cool. It's really crazy how close you get to a group of people so fast. I can see how that happens on sets of big money movies too. There's a lot of work but a lot of downtime as well.
Though it isn't the best situation to be missing ft again this week I'll be back the following week and it's going to be amazing. I know I'll already be up on the balcony singing my heart out. Can't wait!
If any of you ever have a chance to help out and be in a music video, especially one that is shooting all night, I highly suggest you just go with it. When else will you get a chance to do something like it?
Much peace, love and rock to all,
J
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