Comments

PeterWright wrote on 7/3/2007, 8:45 PM
Extremely well shot and put together, Patryk!

- only problem was I haven't a clue what the song was about - will they be doing an English language version? ;)
AlanC wrote on 7/4/2007, 1:26 AM
When are we going to give these people their own language instead of allowing them to destroy the Queens English.

It looked fantastic without the sound.
Grazie wrote on 7/4/2007, 1:38 AM
Totally Extreme!

Crucial, cynical story line - the rise and RISE of the female through the ranks from "street-work" through to achieving the DREEEEM!

So many creative threads running amongst this. BUT . .and there's the crushy dif - it is DONE with much craft and slippery editing. The edit don't get IN-front of the narrative. The Edit didn't stop me from "seeing" the story-line

Huge points for me:

* The Female's humour and drama: the hand gestures and music sync

* The use of the "other" sloooowed down voice

* Front and centre attention grabbing

* Synco!! Woooah!

* Audio/Sound values

* 4:3 ( yes I do remember!!! )

. .and just the WHOLE product.

The end didn't happen for me. Maybe that is ALSO part of the narrative? The END just doesn't happen?

Reeespekt to ALL involved!

VEGAS?!?? It just ROX . . Patryk? I'm always in awe of what you do.

Grazie

PeterWright wrote on 7/4/2007, 2:00 AM
Well done Grazie for finding the narrative! Your linguistic capabilities are amazing.

I just watched it again - all I got was something about cleaning the beach, then I heard her say big house big car ... and people hate what they don't understand.

Well I didn't understand, but I didn't hate it.
MUTTLEY wrote on 7/4/2007, 3:57 PM


Always great stuff for you Patryk. Wondering if your using Kino's or something else for the lighting on the talent in this one and the night scenes in "Spoiled Riches".

- Ray
www.undergroundplanet.com
Patryk Rebisz wrote on 7/4/2007, 5:24 PM
Lighting for this one was simple and easy to execute as i knew the talent is going to be stationary. It was a 4x4 kino hanging on a 12' pole attached to 2 hi-rollers. Then 4 lights - 2x 2k and 2x 650w - as backlight on dimmers. I remember there was also one 2' kino bulb attached to the mattbox for when the dolly gets close to her.

In "Spoiled Riches" it has a mix of diffused HMIs and Kinos.
DWhitevidman wrote on 7/5/2007, 8:35 AM
I've been using Vegas for about two years now, but mostly as a hobby. And sometimes I just can't fathom how long things take.

I would enjoy knowing how long this shoot on this took and with how many cameras. Then how long did it take to edit into the final result. It is very nicely done. Thanks
Steve Mann wrote on 7/5/2007, 9:30 AM
Well, I am an official old fart and I never listen to rap because I don't consider rap to be music. Just some collection of meaningless words roughly timed to an unoriginal repetitive loop of one or two bars of badly played rhythm.

Your video has taken a truly awful abomination of the art of music and actually made a video worth watching. This is the first rap video that I've ever watched to the end.

And that's the best compliment that anyone has gotten from this ancient curmudgeon in a long time.

I am curious to the more technical details of your lighting and your editing workflow. In particular the 'laser effect' and the Flash encoding.

Patryk Rebisz wrote on 7/5/2007, 11:10 AM
It was 1 day shoot and 2 day edit. The director (who's also brilian editors -- as you can see) didn't like the video so he was putting it away to a point i assumed the video will turn out like crap. His dislike for the video thou i think brough the best of his editing skills.

The lazer effect was a number of winamp visualizations recorded of of computer screen and then messed around to get rid off any doubt of copyright infringement. So out of those projections we got back projection (the lazer effect) and front projection (that you can see in second half of the video)
Patryk Rebisz wrote on 7/5/2007, 9:55 PM
Same band, totaly different approach to lighting, coverage and editing:
http://www.sonycreativesoftware.com/forums/ShowMessage.asp?ForumID=4&MessageID=535108
fldave wrote on 7/6/2007, 5:07 PM
Great stuff, Patryk. Always good to see your work. Thanks!
ReneH wrote on 7/6/2007, 7:58 PM
Is it just me or just about 99.8% rap videos are of the same mold? i mean where is the creativeness in that? It is always the same thing, people vainly flipping fingers into the camera. That's it. There are no stories being told. I can tune in to MTV and I cannot differentiate between any rap video. Other than that, the color correction was good.
busterkeaton wrote on 7/6/2007, 10:49 PM
Interesting to see skateboards start turning up in hip hop videos
stepfour wrote on 7/7/2007, 1:36 PM
I don't post much here anymore, but, Patryk, every time I see your name here I think about the amazing video you did a while back made up of nothing but still shots, and that makes me click to see what you got. This music video is stupendous. Great shooting and very sweet editing. Not a dull moment to be found in it. Not sure who directed it but they know their stuff, too.

Wow... I don't see too many kind words for Hip Hop here but I love this group and their sound. The young lady out front, with her drumming hand gestures, facial expressions and command of rap, is simply mesmerizing, and the sound is very fresh. I bet they love how you put all the pieces together. I picked up the same underlying story that Grazie did. I listen to music with open ears and an open mind, and I consider it cool when you have to really listen to get the message. This is a talented and creative group of youngsters you shot in this, Patryk. Great that you get to work with them.

It's purely speculative on my part, but skateboards may be getting popularized in Hip Hop by Pharrell Williams. He is the production mind behind a lot of hip hop artist's music, and also hip hop styled music heard in recent years from Britney Spears, Gwen Stefani, etc., and he is a skateboarder. I read somewhere that he has a skateboarding ramp, or half-pipe, inside his house. How cool is that?

I see you posted another vid of them. I'm off to watch that now.
jaydeeee wrote on 7/7/2007, 3:31 PM
I'm with Steve...rap has taken vain to new levels of BS (and I don't dislike all rap). But then again, barring most classical and jazz performance videos...all "music videos" are egotistical, rather easy, and usually brainless.

This "band" is annoying at best though. Any level of "tough" is quickly tossed away from the get-go, it plays like an "after-school special" of rap videos. the definition is nice though!

"drumming" hand gestures...
AKA: the same 'ol, same 'ol.

Mom's are still probably folding their clothes in suburbia.
fldave wrote on 7/7/2007, 8:14 PM
I really liked the office video. Good concept, more of a reggae beat. By the time the stiff suits are trying to skateboard, I was really into the rhythm. That song was in my head all last night.

Of course, Patryk's work was fabulous.
Patryk Rebisz wrote on 7/9/2007, 1:38 PM
Thanks everyone for comments. Both videos were directed and edited by my friend David Jakubovic. I was responsible for lighting, angles and color correction.