Music video for Bääbs, alias Päivi Kankaro from Tv-resistori who is participating in the Finnish Eurovision Song Contest semifinals with You Don't Know Tomorrow.
We shot this music video at an old local hotel, Tammer. Normally they don't allow people to shoot there but the manager apparently is a big fan of the eurovision contest!
There was about 20-25 people all working for free. Basically we didn't have any budget, all the gear was borrowed or our own. Everyone worked for free.
On the second scene you see the fireworks, they were there for the Finnish independence day celebration. We were shooting another scene when one of us realised whats going on outside. We lit the balcony in 10 minutes, hurried the make up and costumers to finish the balcony scene's work in ten minutes, carried one 650W Arri Tungsten and lit the scene through a table on the balcony. We were ready the exact moment the fireworks begun.
We had 6 scenes to shoot. All in all we had 12 hours to shoot the video. In hindsight I would've wanted to do more/better close up's but we were on a very tight schedule and we spent all our energies planning the master shots and the light design.
December 10th, 2009, 05:37 AM
