I recently collaborated on an impromptu short set to Amon Tobin's 'Angels & Deamons' with director Elliott Sellers (http://www.elliottsellers.com). This was a total creative exercise because we literally put the video together in less than 24 hours. Elliott came up with the concept and I quickly suggested we check out one of my favorite locations to see the sunset in LA, in a hidden spot tucked on the westward side of Griffith Park.
Elliott called two of his acting friends Katie Bunn & Dontez Hood, we hand-picked some fabric and an umbrella and we jetted off for the sunset, a skeleton crew of a Elliott, Myself, and a producer friend from New York, Chavvah Stuart (http://chavvahstuart.com/), who was able to tag along and help us while filling her delayed flight's hours with some sunshine.
I think the title of the song is a bit self-explanatory for the concept of the video. We wanted to play with traditional, Western-genre stereotypes in wardrobe, clothing the angel in black and the demon in white.
We used a Panavised Red Epic with Kowa spherical primes shooting at 2K WS to crank the camera up to 300fps. The Kowas are one of my favorite sets of lenses and we made sure to showoff the wonderfully organic lens flares.
If you hit the 20mm just right you create perfect swirling, amber circles in the middle of the frame. They are the sister set of lenses to the spherical Baltars, which render warmer skin tones with cool flares.
I'm going to guess we shot nearly 80% of the video on the 20mm bc we wanted to be as wide as possible for our very wide 3.0 aspect ratio and crop factor shooting at 2K to accomodate for 300fps. When we needed a true wide we would switch to 4K at 120fps.
We weren't able to utilize the sensor's 5K capabilities because the lenses were made in the 50's and can only accomodate for a s35 format. We maintained a very shallow depth of field by keeping the camera close and shooting wide open at 2.3. We used very little filtration only using ND, a polarizer, and a sunset SE grad for our wides.
Elliott called two of his acting friends Katie Bunn & Dontez Hood, we hand-picked some fabric and an umbrella and we jetted off for the sunset, a skeleton crew of a Elliott, Myself, and a producer friend from New York, Chavvah Stuart (http://chavvahstuart.com/), who was able to tag along and help us while filling her delayed flight's hours with some sunshine.
I think the title of the song is a bit self-explanatory for the concept of the video. We wanted to play with traditional, Western-genre stereotypes in wardrobe, clothing the angel in black and the demon in white.
We used a Panavised Red Epic with Kowa spherical primes shooting at 2K WS to crank the camera up to 300fps. The Kowas are one of my favorite sets of lenses and we made sure to showoff the wonderfully organic lens flares.
If you hit the 20mm just right you create perfect swirling, amber circles in the middle of the frame. They are the sister set of lenses to the spherical Baltars, which render warmer skin tones with cool flares.
I'm going to guess we shot nearly 80% of the video on the 20mm bc we wanted to be as wide as possible for our very wide 3.0 aspect ratio and crop factor shooting at 2K to accomodate for 300fps. When we needed a true wide we would switch to 4K at 120fps.
We weren't able to utilize the sensor's 5K capabilities because the lenses were made in the 50's and can only accomodate for a s35 format. We maintained a very shallow depth of field by keeping the camera close and shooting wide open at 2.3. We used very little filtration only using ND, a polarizer, and a sunset SE grad for our wides.
You can watch the video here! Enjoy!
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