Music Videos & Direction
Beat Face - Beautiful Girl
This video is part of an “Unauthorized Music Video” series, in which I steal the soundtrack from musicians I admire and make a video for them. If they like it, cool! If they don’t, well, that sucks (I guess I would have to remove the audio or worse, re-record the tune with my own voice. Like a real bad rendition done by beatboxing). Beat Face are my homies, so I hope they don’t send a cease and desist. Anyway, I made this video with the help of Alex Chertok and his boy Medet Shayakhmetov (two talented and amazing directors, motion designers and good peoples), over the course of one evening, a RED camera and lots and lots of hacking.
Tools: 1 x RED Scarlett, 2 x projectors, and 1 beautiful girl model.
DOP: Alex Chertok
Camera: Medet Shayakhmetov
Editing & Grading: Alex Chertok
Producers: ebony L. haynes & MaDukes
MUA: Meredith Helow and Angela Campanile
Sound: Beat Face “Beautiful Girl.”
The Carps - Heaven's Gates & Hell’s Flames
This video was created on a whim with less budget than most buy groceries with. Taking the term WYSIWYG literally, the shot was entirely based on whatever was in the room at the time only hours before The Carps left on a month long European tour.
Tools: Apple Final Cut Pro, one Mini-DV camera, a SkyJack crane, two 8K lights and lots of caffeine.
DOP: ebony L. haynes
Grading: Chris Williams - Notch.
Label: Urbnet.
Sound: The Carps "Heaven's Gates & Hell’s Flames.”
Moka Only - Search
Commissioned by Urbnet Music to re-invent the Lightbombing concept, the graf tags were swapped and the Canadian Hip Hop emcee, and industry standard Moka Only, was projected onto the urban landscape. A typeface was also designed for the endeavour: uomodiva.
Tools: Adobe Illustrator, After Effects, Premier Pro, iPod Video, projector, external Battery and two consumer HD cameras.
Camera: Kareem Hassanien.
Greenscreen Lighting: Zahra Agjee (with assistance from Lief Pagalan).
Grading: Chris Williams - Notch.
Label: Urbnet.
Sound: Moka Only "Search.”