This MV is the companion piece to Nothing is Right. This song is a nice little ballad and I pretty much kept it a simple two camera shoot capturing Wayne's great singing and playing with the streets sounds all around.
When I asked Wayne to do an adhoc music video at 1am in the morning in the middle of March I didn't think he would say yes at first but I'm really glad he did. What we attempted to do was a live street recording with two contrasting pieces. "Nothing is Right" being more upbeat would be the more polished MV. The limited b-roll I had by went to "Nothing is Right". So "You Said" became really a documentation of a live street performance. For both of these two songs I really wanted to stay away form the polish of the studio recorded version. I just wanted to show some of the rough edges. Some of which was unfortunately a little more rough in the audio. My Sanken COS-11x which I had taped to Wayne's shirt was not a good idea and we encountered a lot of handling noise. That's one of the elements that I'll learn from for the next time around.
I stuck with c-mount lenses on this shoot to experiment and see the kind of character they give to the natural street light. I'd say the Computar 25mm f/1.3 is a lens that really lends itself to the nightlife and low light street scenes. The Kodak Ektar 25mm f/1.4 also has that retro character with nice contrast and sharpness and interesting lens flares which we decided to just keep and use because it was halo-like and had a cool effect. Because most of the shots were static we only used the SNAP! Gear for b-roll and the opening shot. But it's been really great to be able to pull focus with such small lenses using this gear. The SNAP! Gear and SNAP! Collar help in that regard giving the possibility of pulling focus on c-mount lenses. The combo of c-mount and SNAP! Gear is really so amazingly light weight it's a blast to shoot with.
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Director: Gary San Angel
Assistant Director: Serena Perrone
Camera Operator: Rocky Kev
Filming Details:
Panasonic GH1
Computar 25mm f/1.3 lens
indiSYSTEM SNAP! Gear
indiRAILSpro MP
Panasonic GH1
Kodak Cine Ektar 25mm f/1.4
Sound Devices 552 Mixer/Recorder
Sanken COS-11x