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“Seventeen Forever”
Yesterday, I worked on my second music video for the band Metro Station. After Shake It! in the beginning of the year, producer Justin Beloniel asked me to operate the Jib on Seventeen Forever. Taking place at night at the Veluzat Ranch in Santa Clarita, the set was a sort of a trashed Luna Park. Marc Ritzema was the DP. Video coming soon…
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Orange RockCorps Concert
The DP Gavin Brennan had me operate on the concert that the RockCorps association offered to his volunteers. With lots of big names from the rap world, it took place at the Gibson Amphitheatre in Universal City. Here is a short intro from Busta Rhymes I shot the day before. More videos to come. [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vCpNnBteMqM&color1=11645361&color2=13619151&hl=en&fs=1]
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Seal sings for Obama
I pulled focus yesterday on the next Seal’s music video, “A Change Is Gonna Come”. Shot in black & white by Joshua Reis using his Arri SR3 package and a Aaton LTR, the singer was just by himself performing in front of a black background and a spot light. Neon directed this video in support to Obama’s campaign.
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Frenchies back in LA!
The French producer Laurent Darmon, who did Passi’s music video last year, came back to LA to shoot “Ray of Light”, the new single of the singer William Baldé. We spent this very sunny day in Venice, using the Arri SR3 in handheld mode, shooting in a house and later by the beach. It was a busy but yet very enjoyable day! Antoine Marteau was the DP and Delfina Garfias, the 2nd AC. http://www.dailymotion.com/embed/video/x5dvvs?logo=0&hideInfos=1
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Metro Station – “Shake It!”
Now producing his own music videos, Justin Benoliel asked me to join his crew with the Jib at the Los Angeles Theater (pretty amazing location), located downtown, to shoot the music video of this new band. Johnny Ching was the DP.
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Pascal Obispo’s music video
Using Matt Uhry’s russian Konvas camera, we shot yesterday the new music video of the very well established French singer Pascal Obispo. His new song, “Nouveau Voyage”, features the rapper Baby Bash. We spent most of our day on the beach in Venice before moving to the “Vine Bar” in Hollywood to finish the day. I was the only camera assistant, pulling focus and loading. Very busy day! Thanks to Sean for his help and Marten, our DP. UPDATE 11/23/07: The music video has just been released.
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Let’s shoot in RED!
>Andrew Shulkind offered me to work together again with the jib on a music video for Partizan. The overnight shoot took place in a mexican grocery store in the valley. The exciting part of the project was the camera: the RED! The one we got has the serial number #30 and is obviously still not 100% ready. No viewfinder and most of the outpouts don’t work yet. But the camera was very easy to balanced on the remote head of the Jib and we didn’t have any bugs or problems.
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French Music Video
Yesterday I worked on the new Passi’s music video, a famous french rapper. We got the bridge of 6th St closed all day just for us. I was pulling focus and operating the jib. It was a very busy day but also very nice to be with a french crew. A safe trip back to Paris to the DP Michel Faburiaux!
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Ronnie Day
Here is the music video of “Ronnie Day”, on which Nicolas and I used the Jimmy Jib two months ago.
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The music video “Elephant Gun” is out
My first post on this blog will be to invite you to have a look at the new Beirut’s music video, which came out just a couple of days ago. I worked on it as a jib operator in March and I am really proud of it. I think the director Alma Harel really succeeded in capturing the floating and nostalgic atmosphere of the song. Bravo 🙂
