MUSIC VIDEOS
Jack Jones ft Tugga War & Gappy Ranks – Oh No! Video Feb 2010
A pleasure once again to be on set with the FullyFocused production crew and director Teddy Nygh, with an interesting eye for artistic talent, this time round HipHop vet Jack Jones teaming up with dancehall artists Tuggawar and Gappy Ranks. The outcome is a well shot colourful video, best viewed at 1080p! If your connection can handle it…
Well done to all involved, I myself had just had a bad bike accident a few days before and had to move around set at much slower pace than usual, a challenge still!
Stills from the shoot below with full video at the bottom.
Unforgiveable Blackness – Jason Nwansi, OCT 2009
After the success of Jason’s first BET Black History Month poem last year “What it Means to be Black” (see below) Jason is back with another Poem for 2009 entitled “Unforgivable Blackness”.
Available to purchase on itunes here http://itunes.apple.com/us/album/unforgiveable-blackness-single/id335180600
Pics from the video shoot and last years video are below…
Headknocker @ Musiques En Stock festival, France, 2nd July
Meet the Headknocker crew – Tibbo, Renn, G Easy & Patrice…
Jammin in the beautiful mountainous region of north-east france, Headknocker turned up to rock the crowd in many places, including one of the funkiest jam sessions ive been to in a town called Annecy, I was feeling the vibe so much I had to put down the camera and pic up the mic!
Next up was the Musiques En Stock festival in the town of Cluses, Haute-Savoie, a few thousand people turned up to feel the force in the sunshine and knock heads with the natty dredd…much love goes out to the French family who looked after us like we were their own, we will never forget you!
Below are some shots from the trip…promo video below the pics…MA
Wancee – Whats Urban?
New video by Wan-Cee; What’s Urban? Video also features Ayanna Whitter Johnson & the Urban Philharmonic Orchestra. Single release date: 27-JULY-09. Copyright Prodigal Son Entertainment 2009.
I have worked alongside Jason on many projects and its always a good experience, Jason arranged a hard working team that came together well on the day, we had fun and I snapped a lot of shots, with the one above being one of my favourite production shots of the day.
GIGGS – You Raised Me/Open Up
Director Teddy Nygh, a talented man who has starred in feature length films such as Sugarhouse and also directed and produced his own full feature hip-hop documentary Clash of da tights 1’s, explains that he had vision for a video when he heard this new track from the south London rapper. Giggs himself is a controversial artist which gave Teddy even further inspiration for running the project. Teddy explains that when he heard the track for the first time it touched him, he really felt it and instantly visualised the scenes and with Giggs being a very visual rapper this just made things come together.
The video is in two parts, with the first part being a dedication to his mum (the video was released on Mother’s day) and then blends into the second part which is a club scene with some brilliantly made up geisha models shaking their thangs on the dance floor. This video did in fact make history to be the first UK hip hop music video to have a screening for its release in the warm and cosy Riverside studios in Hammersmith.
I shot the stills on the set over two days, missing the green screen filming on day3 due to other commitments! But still got some good shots, the second day also involved me shooting two particular shots during the filming of young Giggs that I then printed out and placed in the picture frames on the wall, to then be used for the effect of zooming into the picture and merging into film…Teddy also dragged me down to Peckham one night to shoot some stills of the traffic on the high street, we setup the tripod, found the angle we needed and shot around 250 stills each exposed at 2 seconds, with the camera on interval timing (taking a shot on its own every 3 seconds), the resulting 250 pics were then blending together by the editors and used (briefly!) in the video, just as Giggs says “I think the hood kinda changed me”
Big up to all involved, it was a good shoot and everyone put in hard work to get the job done, bring on the next vid!
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