Monthly Archives: January 2013

The Panasonic Lumix GH3 Has Arrived!

Just not in stores yet….We have been excitedly awaiting the arrival of the latest addition to Panasonic’s GH series, the GH3.   The camera line started a DIY DLSR micro 4/3rd’s revolution for thousands of indie-filmmakers with the release of the GH1 almost 4 years ago.   However the true potential of the camera wasn’t […]

Working with the Bay Area’s Tainted Love

For over the past month we have been excitedly working on a promotional video for one of the country’s hottest 1980’s cover bands Tainted Love who hail from San Francisco.   We flew to Sacramento on January 18th to film the band’s sold out show at Harlow’s.   We utilized the slow motion capabilities of […]

Music Video Shoot with Maleficent Vigor

In December, we started production on a music video for LA based death metal band Maleficent Vigor for their song Internal Nightmare. We shot over 2 days, shooting live band footage one day and the storyline footage another. We shot primarily on the FS700 and shot some B-roll on the hacked Panasonic GH2. For the live band footage, we utilized a crane mounted to a dolly on track for some great moving shots. This was the band’s first ever music video and we are really excited with how the footage is coming together.   The band was great and Mike the drummer put in a long day’s work as we did close to 30 takes of the song.   We are planning on having the video edited by the end of January and will have it up soon after.

We love filming music videos for up and coming independent artists and as musicians in bands ourselves we know what its like and the struggles you face.   That’s why we feel we are in a unique situation as filmmakers as we understand a lot of the concerns bands have when making videos, such as how they are portrayed, their image, how to reach a large audience, etc…

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