Two weeks ago, I had the opportunity to produce and direct the title package video for Andy’s latest series, White Flag. The series is about Jonah and how he ran from God. We wanted to show a character running endlessly and becoming more and more exhausted. Additionally, the subject was to end up in increasingly desolate environments. The reveal at the end would show a white flag. We wanted the viewer to see the subject running, becoming beat down by the run and eventually surrendering.
The shoot itself took us to Buckhead and then into downtown Atlanta, where we could take advantage of some urban scenery, graffitti walls, deserted underpasses and cool-looking tunnels. It was freezing and a long day, but we got some gorgeous footage on the Canon Mark II 5D. Did I mention we had to make the flag fly in the wind? Fortunately, it was actually very windy that day so we got some excellent shots of the flag rippling. (Which, of course, got cut.) At one point, the entire crew jumped a fence, walked over some deserted train tracks, hiked up a steep under-pass and filmed in between two busy highways. We also had a spectator. A homeless man, who called himself Lighting. He saw us filming with a white flag and immediately told us he knew we were making a video about surrender. The situation gave us a lot of perspective about the meaning of the video we were filming.
In addition to capturing some excellent footage, we had a little bit of an adventure and a great story to tell. Check out the video below.
Camera: Canon Mark II 5D
Producer/Director: Heather Breslin
DP: Josh Peters
Actor: John Saddington
http://www.vimeo.com/10048109
March 9th, 2010 at 10:29 pm
awesomesauce!
March 10th, 2010 at 11:07 am
By the way, our talent, the amazing John Saddington was perfect! He is a secret genius at acting and had a great attitude. Thanks John!
March 10th, 2010 at 1:45 pm
very cool. Love the ending shot. Mr. human3rror was pretty awesome!
March 11th, 2010 at 1:56 am
thanks for sharing this. inspiring.
March 16th, 2010 at 12:15 am
Nice job, Heather! Loved the whole piece but especially the fence shot.
March 22nd, 2010 at 11:32 am
Very cool. You guys always find some great music for use in your projects.
The slow-mo looks very smooth. Did you use After Effects time-stretching with pixel motion frame blending?
By the way, be sure to get the 2.0.4 firmware upgrade for your 5D Mark II. It adds manual audio control, proper functioning of Av and Tv mode while shooting video, 24p mode, and a lot more!