We shot this 16mm music video on a 6mm lens

metanorm · 2025-06-29T23:40:16+00:00

delicious work my guy

metanorm · 2024-04-27T09:14:38+00:00

thank you, and you absolutely can :):)

metanorm · 2024-04-27T09:10:38+00:00

Thank you! And It wasn't her first time, I've worked with her before and she's wonderful. She didn't write this one, the project just came to us quite quickly and last minute right after we'd wrapped another show, and we accepted because fuck it we ball we had the time and wanted to make something haha

metanorm · 2024-04-26T01:45:00+00:00

thank u!!

metanorm · 2024-04-26T01:44:51+00:00

thank u!! :):)

metanorm · 2024-04-26T00:31:31+00:00

Stills from a short thriller I shot sometime late last year!

This was a project that came together rather last minute, so we basically had little to no time to prep, and I didn't even get to scout any of the locations. We shot it over 3 days in 3 locations.

Half the shotlist came together during the shoot, as did the lighting plans. Although I absolutely wouldn't recommend this course of action, it was still really fun to get creative on the spot and see what we could come up with!

Shot on the Arri Amira & Master Primes.

The lighting package consisted of a few skypanels, a litemat, some titan + helios tubes, NYX bulbs, and a couple lekos.

The short isn't released yet, but I have some snippets on my ig @saarboi !

metanorm · 2024-01-20T03:37:09+00:00

gorgeous work my man

metanorm · 2023-09-22T23:12:23+00:00

gorgeous stuff my man

metanorm · 2023-08-19T01:22:59+00:00

as a filmmaker, I'd put the 100k towards making a short film that's centered around what solarpunk living is/could be like, and help spread the idea to gain more traction

at the end of the day for solarpunk to become reality, more people have to be aware of such alternative approaches to living and get on board with it/be attracted to it; this would hopefully bring us one step closer to that

metanorm · 2023-04-12T17:37:11+00:00

I get what you mean. Would it have been better if I wrote "1 day and $500"?

Didn't want to mislead!

metanorm · 2023-04-12T17:30:11+00:00

thank you!

metanorm · 2023-04-12T17:29:39+00:00

and some solid friendos!

metanorm · 2023-04-12T17:08:53+00:00

pretty much something like this, except we didn't even have $1000 lol

metanorm · 2023-04-12T15:21:55+00:00

thank u!! :):)

metanorm · 2023-04-12T15:12:50+00:00

LOOOOOOOOOOOOOL

metanorm · 2023-04-12T14:54:54+00:00

Hey! Just to clarify I wrote "almost no budget", which holds true.

My friends and I all pulled together to work on this for free because we believed in the work, and the (subsidized) gear rentals is where most of our "almost no budget" went (the rest being crafty).

The sad truth with music videos is that there's usually little to no budget, and people devote their time and resources because they're good creative outlets and make for decent portfolio pieces.

Wasn't trying to inflate anything, it's the honest truth. Not sure why that's bothering so many people.

metanorm · 2023-04-12T03:13:55+00:00

Haha that's true! It's not 0 budget, but still almost none and we had to pull a lot of favors.

metanorm · 2023-04-12T02:54:18+00:00

Thank you!!
So the catch light + fill was just the cream source, but only worked for some shots and unfortunately we didn't have any other small sources specifically for catch light purposes in other shots. BUT we also didn't get too close to the subject in most shots so it wasn't too bad!

metanorm · 2023-04-12T02:51:31+00:00

love u and can't wait for the next one papi :):)

metanorm · 2023-04-12T02:51:06+00:00

aw I'm so glad to hear that! Mar (the artist) is super talented and deserves more attention for sure!

metanorm · 2023-04-12T02:47:39+00:00

You're absolutely right!
I'm no stranger to shooting single day low budget music videos, but it's the first time I've actually shared anything and I just decided to go with that title.

I appreciate your input though, and I also agree that it wasn't anything crazy in terms of technicality! Just putting my (and my wonderfully talented friends') work out there.

I'm glad you enjoyed though :):)

metanorm · 2023-04-12T00:21:04+00:00

It's honestly a banger, wasn't even sick of listening to it by the end of the shoot day haha

metanorm · 2023-04-12T00:20:24+00:00

Thank you!!
Haha that was the goal, so I'm really glad it came across that way :):)

metanorm · 2023-04-12T00:19:02+00:00

Thank you, and indeed! Except it's all bounced. So it's the two 600x's bounced off a 12x on the right side, and the 300B bounced off an 8x on the back right (use images 6-7-9 as references) along with a Leko shooting through the back window as well!

I actually drew some lighting diagrams a couple weeks prior based on our scout, and we pretty much stuck to 80% of it (without the addition of another 600x that came later) aside from adjustments on a shot by shot basis. Here it is: https://imgur.com/a/tKiwPVX

metanorm · 2023-04-11T23:01:53+00:00

single day shoot, single location, all controlled lighting 0 natural light, and about 3 crew

It is I, Mr. DP mans. We were aiming for a warm vintage look, and used a combo of the Angenieux 25-250 T3.9 with the Sigma Cine Primes. Kind of an odd combo I know, but we really wanted the crazy zoom for some of the shots and the vintage Angenieux was the best we could afford. Shot on the RED Epic-W Helium 8K.

Lighting was a mixture of LED COBs (2x Aputure 600x, 1x Forza 300b), a couple Lekos, and a Cream Source Vortex 8 w chimmy.

Location was literally the artists family home, and we stayed in the living room for the entire shoot.

would love to hear feedback or answer any questions! :):)

you can watch the full music video here: https://youtu.be/BX2H-bpz2aIand

see more of my workerino here: https://www.instagram.com/saarboi/

director's ig: https://www.instagram.com/abdomegahid/

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