After watching the trailer for the feature film debut of Director Romain Gavras, I just wanted to share some of his other works with you all. Gavras does a lot of music videos for electronic artists such as M.I.A and JUSTICE. He chooses music that fits his style well. I don't know if I've ever had a music video inspire so much anxiety in me in the first 30 seconds, that Gavras is able to conjure in the 'Stress' video for JUSTICE. So take a few minutes to enjoy the work of Romain Gavras, and be warned some of the material is graphic both sexually and violently.
We'll start off with the teaser for his feature film, it's a good introduction.
This is our new music video for Local Superheroes, directed by Eli and Kyle.
Credits: Directors: Kyle Glenn & Eli Shell Director of Photography: Patrick LaValley Assistant Camera: Peggy Knoebel Production Assistant: Shahrom Taghizadegan Editor: Steve Crocker
Local Superheroes: Robert Westerlund (8 Duece), Anthony Payne (Empty Pockets) & Sean O'Grady (Majic Sean)
Thanks to all!
We shot this in two days around Portland landmarks. We were trying to portray the 'rat pack' of McLoughlin, a mixture of classic cool, and hipster chic. After extensive scouting, we pitched a bunch of different places we thought looked interesting around town. We liked the washed up look of the McLoughlin area. This is an area that was once filled with commerce, but has felt the hit by the economy, evidenced by the multiple big box stores closed for business.
Throughout the process we liked to compare the guys to Goodfellas, and Resevoir Dogs, cool and classic, with a broken down strip mall feel. This is what they do when they're waiting for a job, this is them existing, waiting. This is them driving, doing laundry, in a worn down laundromat.
We shot the performance stuff in Eli's basement, a community storage place. We wanted to create the feeling of a studio, but also have an interesting space that it was occurring in. We liked the wood slat texture in the background, and wanted the star quality that the silhouette brought, as the guys rapped, and drank, and smoked.
Overall, we feel the music video was a success, we were able to get through production on a extremely tight budget (like non existent) with high production value. Steve Crocker did an amazing job on the edit and it came out nearly exactly like our vision. Everyone at Quarter Orange hopes that you like this as much as we liked making it.
