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Title: Music Video Production On Set With The Corbins


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Music Video Production On Set With The Corbins
  • www.pixelpi.ca

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The Corbins - I'm Not Sorry
  • As a video production company based in Toronto,
    one of our long time clients, Steven Tsitsos, has
    been in the music game a long time. He started as
    a child prodigy, moving into classical orchestra
    travelling across Europe and now has set his
    sights on pushing his career further by breaking
    into punk rock scene with his band, The Corbins.
  • Steven came to our video production company
    office and wanted to make his first music video,
    using our videography services for his song, Im
    Not Sorry. It took a while to make this video and
    Ill outline all of the different stages,
    locations and film/video production services we
    used in and around Toronto.

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Setting up the shots for the music video
  • The song was fairly simple. The production
    started with shooting the music video against a
    white backdrop and adding some Marshall amps
    behind it as props. After they were set in, we
    had to to light the scene with high angle ARRI
    fresnel lights and a couple soft boxes near the
    front. It is always tricky when lighting 4 band
    members and a white background with out getting
    any harsh shadows!
  • We had to find a way to disperse a large amount
    flower pedals throughout the entire video
    production. Days before, it was our task to track
    down and buy bags of fake flower pedals to shoot
    in the scene. Thanks to Production Services
    Toronto, we were able to rent large scale fans to
    be able to shoot the pedals high into the air, so
    that it would look like it was raining flower
    pedals.

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Waterfront video production
  • After we finished the first shoot indoors, Steven
    decided we needed some outdoor shots to spice up
    the video production and overall production value
    of his music video. We decided on a number of
    other locations. First, we started down on
    Torontos waterfront and shot with a series of
    mascots to get a surreal dream-like setting.
  • We had to rent a number costumes from a Toronto
    prop production company and create a door to be
    constructed on the end of a pier. All of this, we
    had to load in early and set up all of the props
    before sunrise. Since we decided to use a
    Steadicam, to get a dreamy, floating camera as
    Steven walked through the door. The entire video
    production was a little chilly and windy but we
    were able to wrap everything on time.

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Abandoned Building
  • Whenever someone asks my video production company
    to shoot a music video in an abandoned building
    in Toronto, I always have to laugh. It is
    extremely difficult to find anything like that in
    Toronto, find the appropriate permits and gather
    all of the audiovisual production services to go
    along with it.
  • We were lucky enough to travel a little out of
    the city to be able to shoot some of the scenes
    for Im Not Sorry. We had a friend who helped us
    out on a location scout and we were able to find
    a great location and production services set away
    from prying eyes.

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Hall of Mirrors
  • The final location that we needed to get was a
    hall of mirrors effect. We decided to reach out
    to our friends over at Trinity Square Video and
    they were kind enough to let us use their gallery
    space for a night video shoot. We had to
    construct the hall of mirrors with 40 cheap
    Wal-Mart mirrors, string and galvanized piping.
    Since we were shooting from the side we only
    needed to create a 180 degree axis.
  • We engineered a a piping stand that we could hang
    the mirrors on string and have Steven walk past
    them. Since we didnt have a huge budget we had
    to keep the shots tight. As for any reverse
    shots, we hung a green screen and composited any
    additional parts of the room out.
  • Have a look at our video and let us know what you
    think!
  • To check out more on the Corbins, check out their
    YouTube Channel.
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