The Music Video

Yay. The rough cut of the music video that we shot a few weeks ago for the band that I cannot mention has been uploaded to a website that I will not reveal for fear of imprisonment and just plain bad karma.

I do however have screenshots! (click on the picture to see the big version):

I don't think they're copyright protected, right? They're just pictures of me and my friends...



Naia



Walter



Max



Me



And Tee!!!!

The K.U. Shoot

So I worked on a REAL music video yesterday.

My buddy Chris followed through and finally got me hooked up as a P.A. on the K.U. video. Honestly though, being a PA is the opposite of getting "hooked up", you are stuck doing the shitty stuff noone else wants to do, like cleaning up trash, and shovelling scummy sewage out of the path of the utility trucks.

We shot down in the L.A. river basin which for the most part was dried out. (It's where they shot the Pussycat Dolls' Don't Cha Video and Grease and stuff.) It's going to look really really awesome. But the part that wasn't dried out was all garbage and poop covered and scummy from all the trash and homeless people living down there. Yes, homeless people live down there like little trolls. It's crazy. But also good because one homeless man volunteered to shovel away a pile of muck (with his bare hands) in exchange for a breakfast burrito. Since we had an endless supply of breakfast burritos on our catering truck this was a no-brainer.

The day was fun, but long. It was a real music video. With huge cranes holding lights. And cameras mounted on trucks. And tons of crew, record people, management-types.

And Keith remembered me. That was exciting. He actually came up to me and was like, "Dennis! Nice to see you mate!"

I worked from about 6am to 9pm. It was a long day. But it was a great experience. Directing a music video really doesn't seem like such a monumental task anymore. There are so many people who are involved, the director doesn't have to do all that much. You have lighting guys whose job it is to know everything about lighting. You have the director of photography and camera men who know what shots will look good. And each of these people have a crew of little assistants that help make little adjustments. The director really just liases with the artist and management, figures out what they want, and makes comments about whether or not he likes this shot or that shot, whether the lights look too bright, or the energy is missing, or whatever.

The video is going to look AWESOME. Check it out in a few weeks on CMT or something.

Walter's Music Video

So I worked on the music video that Walter hooked me up with yesterday and the day before. Yesterday I went in at 7am and worked until 10pm.

It was a long day.

I spent most of it painting and watching them shoot the video.

Pamela, the director, was incredibly nice, sweet, beautiful, everything. She's a professional photographer specializing in pictures of rock bands and stuff like that. So I would love love love to work for her as an assistant.

I also ended up being IN the video since I guess they needed some "asian flavor". I'm one of the extras who holds up a little sign of their "ex" along with the reason we "broke up". Pictures of Tee and Naia were also selected to be in it. Tee was renamed "Tanya Powers", and Naia was "Denise Kwan".

So whatever. No pay. But it was fun.