Nelson Mandela 46664 Charity Promo

[Costelloe Michael]

Hey Guys,

We just did a charity gig for the Nelson Mandela 46664 Charity. It was commissioned by Archbishop Desmond Tutu and presented to Nelson Mandela as part of his 90th birthday celebrations.

Apart from all that it was shot for no budget, all the gear was donated for the day, including my Reds and steadicam and no-one charged for their time. If you like the promo think about donating a few pennies to the charity! :sarcasm:

Band are International*One and the track is called 'Inyaniso' which I think translates to 'the truth' or 'the way it actually is'.

http://www.robotfilms.co.uk/video_inyaniso.html

Mike Costelloe

 

[Peter Majtan]

Hey Mike!

I really admire things like this. Good on You mate!

The video looks great, the only tiny thing that disturbed me a little were the horizontal flares in the beginning - but I assume it was the artistic direction...

Great work in any case!

Cheers

Peter

 

[garydxd]

Great Video! I personally liked the flares at the beginning.

 

[William Wedig]

How'd you get the horizontal flares?

What lenses were you shooting with? They're not anamorphic because the bokeh are spheres, not ovals.

Great. Really good stuff.

 

[Jan Reiff]

did you mask or paint off the purple dot in the bright areas?

 

[Brandon Fraley]

streak filters?

 

[Simon Blackledge]

Very nice Mike Where'd y film it ?

hope the band behaved themselves..lol

Si

 

[Costelloe Michael]

Yeah,

You guys got it. We couldn't persuade anyone to part with anamorphics and this would have got us into trouble as we wanted to use a projector for the Mandela footage and we had no power to the second location, a warehouse above a Canal Street bar in Manchester. So light and exposure was an issue. So we used super speeds and got the flares from a set of Anamorphic Flare filters courtesy of South London Filters, thanks Carey!

I'm not convinced by the filters, and I've tested them previously, but we tried to make it look interesting with a black space and a couple of 200w Pocket Pars! Personally I thought we did OK, the total budget was about £150 which was spent on food and transport.

Mike C