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Official music video for “Nobody Says No” by Jessie Farrell. This is the second single and video off Jessie’s new album Good, Bad & Pretty Things (604/Universal). Directed by multiple award-winner Stephano Barberis and produced by Arkadia Pictures Inc. Cinematography by Ron Williams C.S.C.

Offical Video for Scatterheart’s “More Than A Man”

Scatterheart’s love letter to Vancouver: Filmed in front of Vancouver’s landmarks: Science World, Sunset Beach and the SeaWall in the summer of 2009. From the album, ‘The Masterplan’ AVAILABLE ON ITUNES and at WWW.SCATTERHEART.CA

Credits:

Produced and directed by Scatterheart • Edited by Mike Southworth • Filmed by Randy Che • 1st AD Masayo Takada
Lighting and Grip Josh Alkoff • Colour Timing Miles Forster • Assistant Brian M Calvert

We have discovered two more videos by premiere 35mm country music video production company — yes this is probably our 15th one with them – Arkadia Pictures the collaborative duo, director Stephano Barberis / producer Alex Galanis.

As with all of Arkadia Picture’s beautiful country videos, much of the magic in the cinema is brought out by senior Technicolor Creative Services colorist Gary Shaw in a 2K film to digital transfer session. The details are extracted from the 35mm work print. The end result is delivered digitally to the TV networks. The film latitude and the extensive digital timing allows us to get by during the shoot with more available light and less time consuming setups then typically on a feature film shoot. This helps offset the huge time constraints of trying to cram an entire narrative story and live performances into a single days shoot.

Above: The charming (dare I say sweet) “If I Fall” by Doc Walker – cinematographer Ron “Rocket” Williams presiding.
Below: Another timeless combination…girl’s and power tools!  Greg Hanna – “It’s a Man’s Job”:

The first was filmed with an Arri 435 by Rocket and lit with a 6k HMI Par and some custom string lights. The background was a 20×20 painted backdrop suspended on location in a barn. The second video was filmed by producer Alex Galanis himself using an antique Arriflex 35 film camera with a rotating turret of prime lenses. We shaped available light with grip gear and did not require a movie generator or HMI for our interiors to produce a quality video on a tight budget

Arkadia Pictures music video director Stephano Barberis was at it again with another CMT music video, this time for Canadian Country Music artist Jaydee Bixby in support of his album, Cowboys and Caddillacs. Shot by the Rocket a.k.a Ron Williams C.S.C. using an array of 9-light maxi brutes pulsing together on a 600 amp dimmer pack, he backlit the performances and flared the lense, often accentuated by streak filters. We had a second generator available to power our 6k HMI Par key because the amount of line disturbance from the fluctuating high current created visible HMI flicker until we re-patched to the backup generator.

Stephano intercut the video performance with a second day of b-roll footage using the band on location around town with available light. This allowed us to concentrate on lighting the performances at the farm location and for pyrotechnics expert Darcy Davis to blow up a van for the finale.

Beach fun at Burnaby Lake — Director Mitch Bax of Monument Pictures completes a choreographed music video for Brandon Paris Band. The song ‘Can’t Hate You,’ plays out entirely in four steadycam takes operated by Pieter Stathis with cinematography by Randy Che.

We rigged the house with MSE (modern) pipe spreaders to keep our movie lights out of view of the roaming steadycam. The camera chases a girl around the house and exposes band members who crawl out of the cupboards to try to charm her.

19 year old Asian-Canadian Juno nominated pop sensation and former Miss Vancouver Princess, Elise Estrada explores a feminine attraction and has a lesbian fantasy in her latest music video, released recently on Much Music, titled “Poison”. Set off by her first female kiss in a nostalgic 50′s diner, she works herself into an erotic dance frenzy complete with cages, dancing girls, geishas, leather couches and mannequins. She soon is wreathing in a sweaty cage herself locked in an ecstatic dance with other girls. The video pays homage to her inspiration Rhianna, “Disturbia”.

We worked with cinematographer Norm Li and filmed at Can-Am studios in Vancouver on 35mm film. The director was Ali Visanji for ROCKStar Music Corp.

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[UPDATE] The embedded link to Elise Estrada – Poison video on her youtube page been updated below.

EMI recording artist Rumi of Clairvoyant Pictures has posted his new music video for the song, “Nevermind” — about an Isreali and a Palestinian romance not to be (until the end of course). The artist wanted a Brooklyn loft style theme to the video so we filmed at the Ironworks building in Gastown which hosts many a music video performance.

EMI Recording Artist Rumi, "Nevermind"

The lighting was conventional music video style with a key through a 6′x6′ light grid frame. Smoke, backlight, etc. Single kino flo tubes were mounted vertically along the back wall. We did build a nice little pipe rig for our Source Four Par backlights. They were framed in the shot which and encouraged to flare with the ‘streak filter’ on the lens.

The rig consisted of a 12′ length of Schedule 40 aluminum tube fastened to a support beam using our adjustable C-Clamp kit from Modern Studio Equipment. Picture a regular c-clamp split into two parts, each with a pipe coupling so they can slide to any width, and then bite down onto the pipe with set screws.

TALCO lighting at the Ironworks in Gastown

Accompanying Performance for Rumi, "Nevermind"

You can watch the video below:
note: we only did day one so don’t blame us for the nasty reflections in the condo high-rise shots, they did most of the inserts on day two run-and gun style around downtown Vancouver adding an available light/home grown aspect to the video. Format was 4k RED Camera.