Maps - To The Sky Video

This is the video we made as an entry to the Radar Festival. When we chose the song (which was a while ago) we had a much different concept for the video. Not entirely different, but different enough that we changed everything we had to shoot. At one point we were an hour away from our scheduled shoot time on the original concept with one actor (out of about 10 necessary actors) and a green screen in a room barely large enough to hold it. We shot the green screen footage the next night after discussing what to do to make the video work. That was actually a recurring theme to our discussions while working on this. We'd get to a point that seemed impossible to pass given the time restraints and the reality of what a limited crew can accomplish. But we figured it out and I'm pretty happy with the result. And happy it's done. Mostly. You can also check out some still images from the video in this gallery.

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3 Responses to “Maps - To The Sky Video”

  1. dom agius on October 17th, 2007 7:15 am

    geoff

    a great, simple & stylish video that immaculately compliments the track.
    on a technical level am loving the lighting & the easy & assured long tracking shots (esp. @ the beginning & end)
    on a personal level the final flicker of lights & your leading mans grin in the elevator made it for me.

    cant wait to see what you do next

    cheers

    dom

    london

  2. Bill Peck on October 18th, 2007 9:57 am

    Great work! But I wouldn’t expect anything less. :-)

    Thank goodness elevators can recognize when we are going down and bring us back up. I like it.

  3. James Fox on October 20th, 2007 4:26 pm

    As a side note to Geoff’s commentary posted above, I have to say straight out - this was an incredible challenge. Not just an artistic challenge, but a challenge of will as well.

    There were several points throughout the course of the project where Geoff and I were at our wits end, sitting at the kitchen table with a scribbled on piece of cardboard - looking at each other with despair written across our faces.

    Each time, whether it was the Producer (Loria) breathing down our necks and giving us that “twitchy” eye, or a spark of creative genius for a wonderful “hot-fix!” Geoff was diving right back in to work.

    As a Director, it’s an incredible gift to have a DP that doesn’t mind rolling up the sleeves and getting bloodied in the battle that is Filmmaking!

    Cheers all around guys, we did a fine job.

    ~Fox

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