Wow. Omg. That's a great reaction.
I've never seen anything like that.
I love being a director. You basically set your own hours.
Every time I'm doing my job, I'm literally just working on a creative project.
I get to go out and shoot and work with musicians and work with music on every project.
The day of the shoot, I arrived at noon.
I had until 1:00 before the twins got there, so we spent that hour setting up lighting,
making sure all of our cameras were dialed in, setting up the LED screen and basically
just making sure everything was set so that once they got there, we were ready to go.
When we first heard the song by Cantrell, we was like, oh my gosh, this flow is so dope.
We had to hop on it.
It was exciting to start creating to it.
The song gave us an Atlanta vibe, so we were just trying to incorporate technical moves,
but also at the same time, trying to make it fun and turnt up.
For us, we knew there was going to be a director that put in certain effects, so we tried to
incorporate that into our movement.
While we choreographed, we were like, this move would probably look cool if he had an
effect here.
We were just keeping an open mind while we were choreographing.
Can we play it now?
Technology is super important, whether I'm just coming up with ideas, I'm always going
to need my laptop near me.
Having a computer that lets me be as creative as possible is super, super important.
A friend of mine had just opened up this LED studio.
Basically you just have this giant LED screen.
It's probably 30 feet long and 10 feet tall.
Then there's this big stage area in front of it.
We were able to light the room a bunch of different ways.
For this particular one, we went a little bit more silhouetted, which worked really
well, because it separated the artists from the background.
After I'd gone on their TikTok and looked through all their videos, I saw they had this
tie dyed jumpsuit look that they used and I really liked how it looked, so I asked them
to bring one just solid color outfit and then bring that tie dye look.
Really, I've just been wanting to use this paint effect on something.
Basically what we did is we shot it one time, didn't move the camera at all, just kept them
in the same exact spot, shot the lead in to the dance move and then I was just like, pause
right here, have them run inside and change, and then we compare it to the original frame
and just made sure they were exactly in the same spot.
Basically the way this effect works is there's a 3D model of a person added into the scene,
and then in blender, the paint effect is added on top of those.
It's basically erasing the video and replacing it with the paint effect on top of that.
When we were walking into the studio, there's this mirror hallway.
Once I got past it, I realized, at the studio they have these huge mirrors that you can
just roll around.
So I said, "Why don't we basically just block off each side of this hallway with mirrors
and just create this crazy infinity room with the twins."
I was really excited about the idea, just because putting two twins in that room is
a really cool optical illusion.
The way we set it up as the actual hallway is here and then we wheeled in this extra
mirror, which you see in the background, and then we had one more mirror on this back wall.
It was really tricky to shoot it, because obviously there were mirrors in every direction.
We had to hide one camera up here and then we had to hide our other camera as a low angle
looking up.
There was actually one point where I'm just lying on the floor in the mirror room, just
pointing up with the VHS.
But that was one of the biggest challenges is just somehow figuring out how to film inside
two rooms that are completely filled with mirrors.
One of the really cool things about the stage setup is that it's actually built on a giant
turntable.
What that means is that the entire stage can turn full 360, so basically we just set up
a static camera on a ladder overlooking this setup, and then we just turn the entire stage.
It almost looks like we're pulling a camera from up top here and following it around,
but it was actually just an illusion created by the fact that the actual stage was spinning.
The whole experience was amazing to me.
Usually when we're in that type of setting, or onset like that, we're usually behind an
artist.
That was our first time where we were being the artist on set.
Right.
It was a magical moment for us.