16,000 people braved the 98 degree weather to see Marilyn Manson, Bad Religion, the Offspring, Steve Aoki, Black Label Socity, De La Soul and a host of other bands. I was excited to finally do some work for my friend Dameon Guess who owns Jakprints, one the of the largest merchandising and printing companies in America. They were a sponsor of this years Sunset Music Festival and wanted to document the festival so asked me to make a video for them. I spent the day in the sun and had a great time, I got to snap some photos and video from the pit area and really enjoyed watching Wallpaper and our friends Street Drum Corps. throw down at the Roxy. I got to meet a lot of great people including the founder and Roxy owber Nick Adler and actor David Faustino from Married with Children who was there promoting his hip hop label. I got to see Nick and his legendary father Lou (who can often be seen sitting courtside at Lakers games next to Jack Nicholson) hanging out under the Roxy sign which was a quintessential LA moment.
The heat didn’t stop people from coming and having a good time and lucky we were able to escape some of the masses with VIP passes which was nice. Steve Aoki played a high energy set and they brought out a 300 pound birthday cake for him which he jumped into and Blink 182 drummer Travis Barker joined him for a few songs. By the time Marilyn Manson came onstage, I was beat from being on my feet all day filming, but the crowd was enthused but I felt like the performance the band gave was hollow and did not live up to some of the bands early shows that I got to see when I was much younger. I did enjoy the spectacle and had a great time editing the video. You can watch the video HERE. Jakprints is opening a West Coast branch so I am looking forward to shooting more events for them including Tarfest at the La Brea tarpits on Sept 22nd. Over and out!
I have had the opportunity to work with Stephanie Harris-Uyidi at Work Care Inc, producing some video content for the company. I spent 2 days shooting at their corporate office in Anaheim and then the post production work for the following week. I shot everything against a green screen on hacked GH2’s which performed very well. I used the new Motion 5 to key out the green screen and was really happy. The usability of the keying functions in Motion 5 definitely trumps the older version. The only downside is it doesn’t work natively with Final Cut Pro 7 so the work flow is longer and more time consuming but I refuse to go to Final Cut Pro X…
After a lot of editing, the commercial for the Jose Eber Glasstech hair straightener is finished. I worked with the talented James Lemmo on the shoot and he did a fantastic job of lighting. It was a long day of shooting but we got some incredible footage that turned out beautiful. We used a rotating table with a clamp for the shots of the iron and the the iron itself turned out to be a huge pain in the ass as we had to get all the shots with the red light on, but the red light only stays on for 3 seconds at a time so you get the point…. It was all worth it at the end, thanks to Brianna at TOL and James.