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show you what went into making my first
meme the video and we have a special
guest welcome to film riot the show
takes a mystery out of the effects and
techniques going to some of your
favorite Hollywood films I'm your host
Ryan Connolly now those of you who
follow the show know we shot a music
video a few months back with a band
called Easton and for those of you who
follow me on Twitter you probably saw
the video online so I thought it would
be good to give you a behind-the-scenes
look at the making of the video and what
it took to get it done and at the end
I'll give you a little bit of a preview
and a link to where you can find the
video if you haven't already seen it the
first thing I had to do was come up with
a concept for the music video the way I
did this was first to listen to the song
then to sit with the band and find out
what their story behind the song was
then I listened to a song about 20 more
times now whenever I was conceptualizing
for what the story might be I made sure
the song was playing in the background
that way whatever idea I came up with
would fit in perfectly with the tone of
the song for lighting we had three one
case some work lights and reflectors and
then we had a PA system which the band
supplied so we could loudly play the
song for them to perform along to and
speaking of this song that's the one
thing I wish I would have done a little
differently instead of letting the song
start normal like this I should have
added a click into the song to play like
this it would have made it a lot easier
for me to sync up my clips later in post
which reminds me make sure you record
production sound when shooting your
music video though you won't use it you
need it to be able to sync up your clips
to your song later but now that I've
decided on my camera we have our
lighting the PA system to play the song
along as we shoot and of course a
concept it's time to go into production
oh hello
you might remember me from PMS the
horror movie
it's good we couldn't start till later
anyway because most of the shoot takes
place at night but within our power
complications I think everything's
turning out alright I can't wait to see
how it looks
our first setup was of the Bands
performance and to light this I used
three one case the first one to the
right of the band has their key with no
gel on it the second one behind the band
was CTO which stands for color
temperature orange and the third one to
the back left of the band as their
kicker with CTB color temperature blue
and that's all i use to light the entire
band I also added a fog machine into the
mix to add some more atmosphere and
movement into the shot I'm really glad I
did because that little bit of fog did
way more for our shots than I even
thought they were going to now initially
I had planned for 20 to 30 shots to
cover the band's performance but once we
got there we found out that we had way
less time to shoot than we were told so
I had to scrap my shots down to like 10
or 12 shots so to make sure I had enough
coverage as needed to get a good edit of
the Bands performance I did two to three
tapes of each band member individually I
would let the song play out and
concentrate on that one band member but
the whole time I would continue to move
around and get different angles so in
the end it looked like I had way more
setups than I actually did but even
doing it that way at about 3 o'clock in
the morning we were instructed that we
could only run through the song one more
time and then we had to go but I didn't
have enough footage so I instructed the
guys to put the song on repeat and not
stop until I tell them to figuring that
the place wouldn't actually stop us
until I stopped recording again and I
was actually able to get three more run
throughs of the song that way until they
finally stepped in shut us down and
threw us out true story be right back
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yeah so now that we have the band
performance shot it's time to get the
side story
now I didn't do a shot list or
storyboard free to the band performance
or the side story I would just listen to
the song a lot before we shot and then I
play it all in my head and go by that
so we're filming the pool party shots so
it's exciting it's going well people
hanging out people are grooving but uh
yeah we're gonna move on to different
detail shots and then mr. Connolly is
going to work his magic
so for the location of the side story we
just used the drummer's back patio since
it was supposed to be a house party sort
of setting then for the partygoers the
band members put out a call to all their
friends to get as many there to act as
extras as possible which we ended up
with about 25 or 30 and since I wanted
to make it look like there was over a
hundred kids there I would just pack a
bunch together shoot strategically then
move around as needed to make it look
like far more people than was actually
there our biggest hurdle with the back
patio scene was lighting since we didn't
have as much lighting as we needed and
with that many people
shadows are always going to be an issue
since I couldn't flow the softbox of any
kind so instead I used a reflector pack
that I got from digital Jews called the
super 5 and one reflector I set these up
and bounced my one case into them to
spread light across the patio and it
worked great another thing we did was
string lights above the pool and light
their fire pit for a bit more atmosphere
music videos are purely visual so I was
looking for any sort of no cost thing I
could do to add a bit more flare to our
images so to that effect I came up with
the idea of everybody jumping in the
pool at the end and getting some
underwater photography to push the music
video over the edge that much more to do
this on the budget we had I had to go on
the hunt for an underwater housing that
we could trust at a ludicrously low
price which I did not think I was going
to find
but was pleasantly surprised when I did
and that is this waterproof case here
which I'm not going to try to pronounce
name because I have no idea how to but
this is the link you could find it at it
was a bag and not a hard case but it's
under 100 bucks so it fit our price
range and it got the job done now I
added some gaff tape to double up on
security and tested the bag first by
putting a t-shirt inside and then
putting it under water to make sure to
stay dry before I was ballsy enough to
throw in my 5d now once we finished
shooting of course it's time to edit and
in the Edit I started by editing just
the band's performance together until I
had a final music video of just their
performance after that I started working
in the side story and then once I was
done with the Edit I used magic bullet
to color grade the whole thing and I was
done oh my god I totally forgot about
our special guest Bill Clinton to see
the full music video go to this link e
here but in the meantime I'll wet your
whistle with a little bit of a preview
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