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Gabe DeCastro is a Brazilian model and actor who was in Avril Lavigne's "Smile" music video. He has lived in LA since 2005 and is the drummer of a band called
Lady Sinatra.
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(03-03-2012, 02:46 AM)john Wrote: Looking at many of Sims videos, most are pretty basic, although he does a nice job with obvious budget constraints.
I agree. He shoots on film, which is a bit of an indulgence, but most of his videos are not elaborate. He is very good at what he does do and the result is impressive given he is self-taught -- 10 years ago he was shooting videos of his friends skateboarding.
The music behind the videos he has shot is generally more aggressive than what we hear in "Free." Because he shoots on film with "perceived light flaws," and we know of the waitress in a diner, I think they are going to give the video a retro feel. The question is, "How will he portray the plot line?" I think "Free" demands more of one than we see in most of his videos.
This is how he portrayed potential immoral acts for a Christian rock song in 2006:
Quote:Mostly using the verses as the "story telling" catalyst will help introduce our concepts. We introduce Jeremy walking down a dark hallway of an old vintage Hotel. Jeremy is wearing something semi formal. He is vocally performing "Tonight" mostly during the verses down these hallways. It'll be lit like a Polaroid flash picture; very spotlight styled with dark edges and mysterious backgrounds. We start seeing Jeremy slip letters under certain doors of the hotel rooms.
As Jeremy slips these letters under the doors we get little glimpses into the hotel rooms. The first of three vignettes will show a businessman sitting on one bed taking his tie off and pulling his wedding ring off while a young woman stands taking her pumps off. Most of the imagery within these hotel rooms will be shot in slow motion and in close-ups to dramatize the acts and also simplify the story telling. They will be lit very dark and colored very desaturated to symbolize these dark emotions. Jeremy continues throughout the song to slip these letters under certain hotel room doors. The second room we show a disturbed young woman in the bathroom taking off all of her jewelry...
...Jumping back into the final chorus we show our characters all walk into an old vintage hotel elevator. They all go for the elevator button panel at the same time. We see the first male character introduced commit to pushing the "1st floor" button. We show a close-up of the man's hand and that he has his wedding ring back on. As the rest of the characters bring their hands back down to their side we show close-ups of their hands and that they have their jewelry back on. The jewelry that our characters have on will come to symbolize a path of moral decency.
That's a fairly impressive creative interpretation of these lyrics:
http://www.lyricstime.com/jeremy-camp-to...yrics.html
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