Music Video--I Am Lost
Apr. 19th, 2007 12:22 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ckmasonI'm currently taking a music video class at Scottsdale Community College.
A short list of things that are awesome about this class:
I will be directing a segment of the music video. We're working on a five minute song called "I Am Lost" by the Angie Raess Band (you can hear it on their myspace there), and six vignettes about various people facing various problems are going to be shot to be interspersed with footage of the band playing at the Mesa Arts Center, which is a gorgeous, colorful glass building.
But I digress. One of the vignettes is mine. As in I wrote and am directing it. This was not an opportunity I expected to have in this class--I was going to go out for camera operator and just learn everything I could about the camera and HD--but when it came time to pitch, how could I turn down a chance at creative input?
I'm currently in the process of casting the vignette. Mine is about a mother and teenage daughter fighting; I have two good candidates for the daughter and three for the mother. I'm withholding final decision until tomorrow (or, later today, as I look at the clock...) as final casting call is this evening. I may not pick anyone that comes in on the last day, since I already do have strong actresses, but I hate to not even consider them.
A short list of things that are awesome about this class:
- Shiny new toys! We are shooting with several of this HD camera and M2 adapters for 35mm film lenses.
- The opportunity to see our student work hit air. Products of the music video class are likely to hit MTV2, Fuse, etc.
- A decent freaking budget.
I will be directing a segment of the music video. We're working on a five minute song called "I Am Lost" by the Angie Raess Band (you can hear it on their myspace there), and six vignettes about various people facing various problems are going to be shot to be interspersed with footage of the band playing at the Mesa Arts Center, which is a gorgeous, colorful glass building.
But I digress. One of the vignettes is mine. As in I wrote and am directing it. This was not an opportunity I expected to have in this class--I was going to go out for camera operator and just learn everything I could about the camera and HD--but when it came time to pitch, how could I turn down a chance at creative input?
I'm currently in the process of casting the vignette. Mine is about a mother and teenage daughter fighting; I have two good candidates for the daughter and three for the mother. I'm withholding final decision until tomorrow (or, later today, as I look at the clock...) as final casting call is this evening. I may not pick anyone that comes in on the last day, since I already do have strong actresses, but I hate to not even consider them.
