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my ever talented buddy, ben rector, is releasing his new album “into the morning” on FEB 16th, 2010. in light of this, i shot the following videos to help with promotion.

the song he wanted to highlight is “moving backwards” and the basic concept that comes to everyones mind is a reverse music video. its been done… and over done… so, being that i love making complex concepts i thought “although, the reverse concept has been done, i have NEVER seen a one take shot with forward/backward/& back to forward. Yes, thats right. I make life difficult.

concept #1 :: normal play back speed, normal first verse, chorus jumps into reverse, second verse back to normal.

concept #2 :: 2x play back speed, first verse forward, chorus jumps into reverse, second verse back to forward. this one was a bit harder to pull off

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- in order for this to be a clean one take look, the first and last frame of the reverse sequence has to be drastically similar. So to pull this off I first interjected two BEEPs within the playback track. one at the start of the chorus and one at the end to give myself indication of the first and last frames of the chorus.
- i also gave ben a mark where to stand at the beep.
- most importantly, I traced the outline of his face on my LCD screen. this gave me a very precise frame of reference.
- for version #2 i used 2x playback. which PROPS TO BEN, is really hard to sing to, let alone sing to backwards. this was shot in 60fps so that it could be brought down in post to give it that floaty, dreamy look.
- if you have any questions, feel free to ask.

BIG thanks goes out to my friends/extras :: erica mckamy, hilary rector, parker welling, steve moakler, paul steele, jason burkey, chrissy harmas, chad till, phill and my harry buddy, tucky.