Production Complete!

We finished filming the video this past weekend, and we are now entering the post production stages. The shoot was extremely fun, but with very long hours. We worked from 10 am until 5:30 am on Friday, 6 am on Saturday (Sunday morning), and 10 am on Sunday (Monday morning). All the hard hours put into the shoot are going to pay off with the final product for sure. Even with extensive camera issues, we were able to film essentially everything that we originally wanted to. We are all extremely excited to see where the editing takes us in the next week or so! Below are some pictures from set prior to, and as we filmed! Hope you enjoy them!




Here's a picture of our finished spring set. We used 80 rolls of sod for the ground layer, and hung a 20 foot backdrop from the ceiling. In order to get a tree that looked something close to real, we purchased a bare red oak tree, and literally taped fake leaves all over it, and painted it brown. Somehow it turned out well...



Here's a picture of the room that the video opens in. On the left is our Sylvia (Elly Lachman, Northwestern '09), and on the right is Thax Douglas, our "Father Time" character. In the picture below this one, the band is pictured in the same room with a pretty drastic lighting change.




Below is a picture of our finished "Winter Set". Basically just a polished version (with snow!) of the walls we put up in one of the posts below!



Those pictures pretty much cover the set that was constructed for the project, so I will just put up a few pictures down below from behind the scenes. We will keep you updated as post production moves along, and we get some more pictures back from on set! Thanks for checking up on us!



Here's our beloved camera team, namely THE David Lassiter (Northwestern, '07) operating our Arriflex SR3 hi-speed camera.



Here is the 16-foot jib arm that we rented. There are some pretty great shots that we got with this baby. It allowed us to go from the ceiling of the warehouse, swoop around the band, and then immediately back upwards. Pretty cool stuff.




Finally, here's a picture of a little dolly action behind the scenes on the winter set. We were able to use a Chapman Hybrid dolly, with a ton of track to get some pretty smooth, long shots.



There's a pretty sweet picture of the band rocking out...



and...



and...finally...



the little thing you see on the left is our SFX technician (about 3 feet away from the explosions) manually blowing up 4 bombs placed underneath our sod ramp...THAT was cool. And it was also at 6:45 AM.


So, once again, thanks for checking this out, and hope you enjoy the pictures. We are all so excited about how the shoot turned out, and are excited to check out the footage this upcoming week!


- Chris Amos (Director)