cross the line music video

[M Hsu]

it's our first music video and the first thing we shot with the red camera. The budget wasn't a whole lot more than you'd get trading in a car under cash for clunkers. It came out ok, all things considered, I sure learned a lot of things that will hopefully make the next one better.

www.maxwax.smugmug.com

if you wait for it to cache the hi def version looks pretty good for internet streaming...

EDIT: Thanks for the really nice comments guys! We were stretching our pennies as far as we could, so we used canon lenses via the birger mount, a sevenjib and dolly from long valley and HMIs from coollights for lighting. We figured out the wire flying with rock climbing gear and then built the actual rig out of cable by ourselves since no one in TN would proof load cables for us, knowing they were going to hold human beings.

Thanks to Erik Widding, Doug Underdahl, the viewfactor guys and Richard Andrewski for answering my questions and getting stuff out to me when I needed it.

Of course, thanks to Jim Jannard for opening a door to let dreamers through. I've been waiting for years for this camera.

 

[Noah Kadner]

looks pretty slick Max!

Noah

 

[Michael Thornton]

Wow, that was good.

I love it.

Can you tell me about the the lighting setup, and lenses?

Thanks

Michael T.

 

[Brian Timmons]

You captured lightening in a bottle. Damn nice energy in that.

Great coverage, dynamic angles, razor sharp editing.
I didn't even get to the stunt work. I'm open to hear how you did the jumps.
Always good when a performance video gets to the heights of a
great live performance.

Very nice job.

Brian Timmons
britim media

 

[Chris Kennedy]

Loved it, great lighting, shots & editing.
With so much energy. Very well done

 

[Petr Dvorak]

please don't be terribly critical in the commenting, everyone shoots their first video once right?

I will be.... man it its very, very good! :thumbsup:
You dont have to ask for any excuses.

 

[Jesper Sichlau]

Falling into the often-so-borring cathegory of music videos of bandmembers in a studio, this one looks amazing. As our sweet friend Tony would say, it is Gggggrrrrreeeaatt!

 

[Douglas Underdahl]

Nice work.

Rock on, Max.

 

[jimhare]

Looks amazing, so clean and sharp. Great colors too.

Did you use a fast shutter on the stage clips?

 

[M Hsu]

Looks amazing, so clean and sharp. Great colors too.

Did you use a fast shutter on the stage clips?

yes, anywhere from 1/500 to 1/800. We wanted faster, but we had to balance for the tungsten practicals/blinders. It was primarily lit with 575 HMIs from coollights through softboxes for the closeups.

 

[Alexander Alexandrov]

great work!
love the slow motion jumps
can u expand a bit on how were these coordinated?

 

[oretac]

Looks really good
Do you have any pictures of the wire rig?
What was it hanging from?
Who was lifting?

 

[Stefan Christou]

I like it but it looks a little sanitary for my tastes. Needs more grit

Edit: Great video BTW

 

[M Hsu]

I like it but it looks a little sanitary for my tastes. Needs more grit

Edit: Great video BTW

any ideas on how to add that in post? I'm definitely open to suggestions.

 

[Luke Stewart]

Beautiful work! I hope my first music video looks half that good.

 

[bernd katzmarczyk]

excellent, great editing!! very clean cool look and clean blacks. congrats

 

[Steve Smith]

Love it!!! - would love to see behind the scenes photo etc. great post effects

Steve

 

[M Hsu]

for those of you who have been asking, we have a short piece on how we shot this video, including the wire flying sections.

www.maxwax.smugmug.com

 

[Ketch Rossi]

Great job, love it!

 

[Matt Gottshalk]

Kick ass.