In September we decided to shoot our first music video. After scouring the internet I stumbled across Pianos Become The Teeth. I was really impressed by their sound, they are quite different from any other band in Baltimore right now. I snooped around through their photos and realized that my buddy Kyle Durfey was singing for the band. I had lost touch with Kyle over the last couple of years, but I figured that this was a perfect opportunity so I quickly got in touch with them.
Shooting was completed over the last weekend of September. We shot the video on the Panasonic HVX-200 with the Letus Lens Adaptor (provided by Digital Cave Media). We also decided to shoot the flashback material on Super 8mm film. All of our Grip & Electric was rented from Serious Grip & Electric. Extra camera accessories were rented from Chesapeake Camera.
Our main cast was composed of Cheryl Scugnio, Paul Wiedecker, Nate Pesce, and Neil Kenworthy. Michelle Lawless did all of our casting for both the main cast and the extras.
The shoot was quite an experience. The days were broken into day one consisting primarily all of the acting scenes and day two was focused on band performance. Our biggest obstacle was the weather. It rained almost all day Saturday (day 1) when we needed to be outside shooting (family scenes & the piano burning). We managed to get pretty much all of it done, but some of it got pushed to Sunday. The band performance shooting was awesome. It went very smoothly. It was incredibly LOUD.
After everything was shot we began editing all of the HD footage and sent the 8mm away to be processed. Once we got the 8mm back it was pretty much smooth sailing. We ended up taking the 8mm footage we cut together, put it on a DVD, projected it on a sheet, and then shot the projection to get the effect we were looking for. With the help of the guys at Digital Cave Media we wrapped up the last bits of post production (color grading & effects).
All photos were taken by (including previous post) Danielle Yurchinkonis.
Here is the video in its final form:
Pianos Become The Teeth - "Houses We Die In" from C83 Productions on Vimeo.
Thanks for watching!
-Chris @ C83 Productions
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