Somadrone - Providence

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The Providence video for Somadrone was my second time working with Mr. Eoghan Kidney (the man who cleaned house at the Irish Music TV awards )and has worked with delorentos, Fight Like Apes and when we last worked together I shot a chunk of the Underworld - Downpipe Video.

This video was shot by eoghan himself on a Camera similar to my trusty "clarence" also known as a Canon 5d mk ii..his twin brother perhapse

My job on this video was a pretty basic colour grade, the reason I didn't go too crazy on the over all look (apart from me doing this all in one night till about 3am) was that I love the perfect whites of the snow and didn't want to play around with it too much.

My main focus was on getting rid of the tungsten / orange hue in the shots where they had used a fill light.

Thanks to the trusty Avid DS System I was working on (I love flame for commercials but you can't beat the DS for anything over a minute or two) I could just use a secondary colour correction which in simple terms means I can isolate his skin and change it to green or purple if i want to but in this case i brought it back to normal colour.

Once i had the corrections established I went after working on the overall look which in this case was just tweeking the levels and adding some blue into the shadows.

I'm hopeing to get involved in more music videos in 2010..no money involved at all but great fun.

Arnotts January Sale Commercial




Just before Christmas I shot my first commercial with the Canon 5d mk ii.

The brief was quite a quite simple set up, One 10sec shot of a good looking girl getting out of bed and then track/gib down to the sheets for the end text to appear.

The main problem was she was lying on red satin sheets which are very difficult to shoot as you want a nice shiny highlight but if you're not careful you'll end up with blown out detail and the whole shot was ruined....the solution was two HUGE silks to double diffuse the crap out of the light seen below.



This gave a lovely soft key light that really worked with the sheets.



Over all it was a pretty basic shoot but I'm more than happy to how the canon performed under a proper commercial setting

Check out the finished piece below.



Thanks to the sexy Stevo MacStiofáin for the stills of the setup