Thursday, May 01, 2008

Spike Lee



The times they are a changing. More and more my role as a photographer is transforming and this assignment is proof. I was originally hired to photograph Spike Lee, for Nokia’s new website www.nokiaproductions.com, but from the initial conversations the job grew to include a video portion and a collateral ad campaign. In the morning we did a traditional still shoot and in the afternoon we shot the accompanying video. Being involved on different levels really adds a nice synergy to the whole project. I must say it was daunting to direct a director, but Spike made it easy.

The impetus of the above clip was brunch. My good friend, editor and visual renaissance man Brendan Colthurst, of Disposable Television, and I were discussing the editing and matting of the shoot when we decided to do a sample for the client, DDB Tribal, and we got carried away in a wonderful manner. The above clip started off just being a test to get the levels and the green screen matting right, but then we just kept going. This is truly the essence of Spike.



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