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Steven Jaymes – Can’t Remember to Forget

Monday, March 19th, 2012

In February this year the Fotomedia crew flew over to New Zealand to shoot country singer songwriter Steven Jamyes’s new film clip – ‘Can’t Remember to Forget’.

Steven had always wanted to get Fotomedia across the Tasman to shoot one of his film clips. New Zealand’s south island is a landscape of massive proportions, towering hills and valleys with a preserved history in the form of quaint towns and a sense of stepping back in time.  The perfect setting for a country music clip.

The Idea

The concept and story for the clip was based around this location in New Zealand where Steven grew up.

Six generations of my family hail from here, and I did spend a good part of my youth wandering those hills. The old Stone cottage was built in the 1860s by my great great grandfather and to validate that I did choose the right place for this video, Peter Jackson was shooting the Hobbit 4 miles down the same road, That Road ? well I guess you will just have to go there to find out, and for those that may know where that is, there are enough hints in the video.
- Steven Jaymes

Steven Jaymes next to the old stone cottage his Great Great Grandfather built

The Equipment

The goal with ‘Can’t Remember to Forget’ was to extract as much emotion out of the scenes as possible.  With that goal in mind and the aim to travel light, the entire clip was shot on the canon 7d in 720p mode at 50fps.

…the beauty with slow-mo is it takes the reality out of the images, the edit becomes ethereal, and the story was retrospective so it worked well.
- Fotomedia’s DOP Lincoln Williams

Fotomedia DOP Lincoln Williams filming in New Zealand

The majority of this clip was shot hand held.  This was to create that deconstructed look that is popular at the moment.  The grading was kept to a minimum to maintain that neutral vintage look and the colour balance was shot a little cooler to match the temperature of the location. The 7d was running between 4500 kelvins and 5500 kelvins depending on the location.


The Result

Check out the final product and let us know what you think!

► Steven Jaymes – Can’t Remember to Forget (Official Music Video)


You can see more of Steven’s work at www.stevenjaymes.com

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Music Video Productions

Friday, February 17th, 2012

With more than 50 clips under our belt, fotomedia have had a long association with the music industry even going back to Pete Murray before he moved to Melbourne and hit the big time.  A music clip these days is considered just as important as the music itself with all the television outlets and social media platforms.  With the new wave of DSLR camera equipment, we have been able to create a cinematic look to all our recent clips with shifting focus and minimum depth of field, mimicking the 35mm format.

 

Rollerball

The Rollerball clip was shot on Digital Betacam.  The reason for this is we used a 13ft jib arm and the motors and gearing required a Broadcast Lens.  DOP Steve Isaacs was kind enough to donate his gear for the shoot.  He operated all the crane shots and Director Lincoln Williams shot the cutaways after the jib are was wrapped.  Fleet lighting supplied the lighting equipment, 2 x HMI 2.5k par lamps with a heap of atmos smoke.  The location shots were in Pinkenba, that hidden suburb beyond the Brisbane airport. The Band required a gritty desaturated product to suit the style of the music and we believe we achieved that with “we always slide”.

You can see more of Rollerball’s work at www.rollerballrock.com

► Rollerball – We always slide (Official Music Video)

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Steven Jaymes

Steven Jaymes is a dedicated singer/songwriter based in Brisbane. In Steven’s live shows he mixes up the dynamic drafting in talented session players for each of his shows. The idea behind “Things get better” was to show the lighter side of playing with an ensemble. The clip was shot on the Canon 5D with minimal lighting, 1 x redhead with CTB to match the daylight spill from the windows. We wanted to capture the mood by using the majority of available light within the location.

You can see more of Steven’s work at www.stevenjaymes.com

► Steven Jaymes – Things get better (Official Music Video)

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Princy

Princy wrote this great track in his home studio, and in conjunction with soundrevolution (Daniel Fowler) auditioned and hired EX Australian Idol contestant Kayla Vanzetta. Fotomedia were involved early in the process brainstorming with the guys to work out the locations and shooting times. The idea was to select iconic locations around the gold coast as the clip was funded by RADF (Arts Queensland). To fulfil their requirements, we had to promote the destination, therefore the beach, the hinterland, the city lights all became part of this catchy colourful clip.

► Princy feat. Kayla Vanzetta – Go! (Official Music Video)

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