Hey guys,

Shot on a soundstage at Austin Studios, this is my last music video to be shot on a stock XL2. I've got a new music video I'm shooting at the end of December with a proper budget, so I'll be switching to the Panasonic SDX900 w/Pro35 adapter, which will be nice.

Anyway, this was a gruesome three day shoot. My brother and I built all the sets ourselves from scratch (walls, props, set dressings, you name it, we did it), and that took us 48 hours straight without sleep. After finishing the sets, we went right into shooting for 15 hours, so basically we began filming extremely tired and I DO believe it affected the overall product (some of the dolly shots look downright horrid to me), but we had no choice as our studio time was restricted to 3 days, and 3 days only (the new Texas Chainsaw Massacre movie was set to move in the day after)....so all in all, I don't think it's my best effort, but I think it turned out alright.

But I digress, this music video was edited in Final Cut Pro 5 with heavy effects filters used in post.

So here's the link to the video, the band is called J. Price.

And again, I know the forum rules and if I need to take this post down for promoting something outside of studentfilms.com, I'll be more than happy to.

Enjoy.

I don't have enough time to watch all of it now, but a few things:

Could you place the video in the center of the webpage? It would be a lot easier to watch...

Also, don't worry about the dolly shots. I think the occassional jerk or two fits well with the genre for some reason.

Sets look absolutely great. I'll watch the whole thing when I get the chance.

A couple things:

- not crazy about the 'film look' effect
- some shots were overlit
- the smoking scene, IMO, looked kind of ridiculous. Way too much smoke, and such a cliche idea that I could only read it as satire.

I liked that there weren't any shots of a band performing. However, the narrative thrust wasn't really clear, which it should be in a video like this that doesn't attempt to show the performance aspect.