Behind the scenes of the LA Based band “The Smart Set”, ” Tornados” Music Video.

Working with Billy Johnson of Glasssidewalk productions, and the band “The Smart Set” while shooting their latest music video “Tornados” in Santa Monica and Los Angeles.

Who: The band – “The Smart Set” (http://www.smartsetmusic.com/) they are Brandi Emma, Rick Torres, Wayne Lothian(of the English Beat), Dave Schulz(Goo Goo Dolls) and Chris O’Brien. Manager – George Ghiz (We shot at his beautiful villa inspired house in Santa Monica overlooking Pacific Coast Highway)

What: “Tornados” Music Video -

“Tornados” is the story We shot live band footage in this historic dive bar in LA. Hundreds of old records were mounted to the ceiling. Perhaps one of the best parts of the production was when we were doing some night shots of Brandi Emma(Singer) dressed up in her vintage clothes and giant updo driving down Santa Monica Boulevard with a camera rig and lights attached to the hood of the car. Everyone on the street just stopped in their tracks and pointed as this bright orange 62′ Ford Falcon went driving down the road with a girl singing along to the blasting music while being shot from the camera on the hood. She was a one person music video production! In a town were people are just used to seeing productions all the time, it was funny to get so much attention. We shot a multi-camera using the Canon 5d mkii to get the most coverage for our fast schedule.

Where: Los Angeles & Santa Monica (Great dive bar in LA(need name for you), and the amazing home of George Ghiz in the Santa Monica hills)

When: June 2009

Why: We shot the video to promote The Smart Set’s first album. This was also a great opportunity to test out the HD Video capabilities of the new Canon 5d mkii.

Fashion/Beauty Video shoot – Alexandra P. for Next LA models

I finally had a chance recently to work on an edit of some footage I shot of Alexandra P. after we wrapped a beauty photoshoot not too long ago. Thanks again to Anna Branson over at ArtMix for mua/hair!