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Management: Nicole Romano
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Here is the music video I did earlier this year. I’ve been getting lots of love from the French Electronic fans! Spread the link. Turn up your sound and enjoy.
S.
"Toxic is Dead" Music Video featured on AOL spinner !!!
Toxic Avenger’s newest video for ‘Toxic Is Dead’ is more like a miniature movie then a music video. With a ‘Bonnie and Clyde‘-like theme, the video features the Parisian DJ and a female accomplice in a high-speed car chase with the police after a robbery.
The heavy synth in ‘Toxic Is Dead’ makes the video even more pulse-pounding to watch. Toxic Avenger shared his excitement about the video with Spinner, saying, “Shooting in the desert made me feel like I was on a Hollywood movie. Being on Route 66 at an old gas station was an amazing experience, especially for a little Parisian comme moi!” - AOL
SMI hard at work as a Jury member for the 2009 Gotland Game Awards. Next to the awesome Director Peter Dodd.
Matt and Kim Video Nominated for MTV VMA
This just in: Matt & Kim’s Lessons Learned is nominated for Best Breakthrough Music Video for the MTV Video Music Awards.
As some you know I worked on the video with the super awesome directors Otto Arsenault and Taylor Cohen. What a honor to be a part of it ! Now lets hope we take it all the way.
Daniel Shapiro joins SMI
Daniel Shapiro is a twenty-four year old film student from Cleveland, Ohio. He began his industry explorations in 2005 as a production assistant on NBC’s “Kidnapped” in New York. Since that time, Daniel has made commercials for local restaurants in his home town, created and worked on countless short films, worked as a production assistant for the Speed Channel and VH-1, music videos for The Black Keys, Ringworm and Steve Flaughers (whose video ‘Wish Upon You’ reached a top 20 spot on CMT), and continues to grow in the areas of screenwriting and directing. Currently, Daniel is in Los Angeles, focusing his efforts on assistant directing a feature film test shoot with director and visual effects wunderkind, Steven Ilous. When not engaged in the filmmaking process, Daniel works as a freelance photographer, with a focus on portrait work, film shoots, local fashion shows and concerts, primarily for J Dub Records.
- written by: Chris Luckey
The Colorist: Part Duex
Yesterday, I completed color correction on the music video I am directing “TOXIC IS DEAD” The amazing Paul Bronkar was our colorist, who is currently working on Disney’s return to 2D movies ”The Princess and the Frog”. He also recently wrapped on the movie adaptation of the hilarious book “I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell”. It was an honor and privilege to work with Paul. Please check out his work HERE.
We approached the color session by creating an overall palette to the piece. Selecting tones that evoke the right emotion, letting footage really “develop” its self. It was slightly experimental, but to expensive to just play all day. Once that was done, we quickly moved into some details pulling out certain elements that enhance the story, or better yet repairing shots that are noisy or remove unwanted color elements. Its amazing how much can be done with colorists.
While I was working, I realized how important it is to screen anything you do on a large format screens. It really gives you a sense of depth and how to populate the scene to draw in the audience. From now on it doesn’t matter what it is, I will make all my creative decisions based off a theatre screenings a.k.a DAILYS.
Color timing in a theatre is an amazing experience. The facility was top of the line with a PABLO 4K realtime color corrector, a Sony 4K Projector, 20ft Screen, 7.1 B&W speakers. All in all their just tools, really nice tools, all to produce the best product with no delay, what you see and hear is what the audience sees and hears.
I will follow this blog up with the Post Production house, specifically the most exciting one in LA right now, LIGHTIRON.
The Colorist.
Color Correction, Color Artist, Grader, basically its that guy that makes your film, commercial, music video go from looking like DV camera footage to the Lord of the Rings.
In all seriousness, A Colorist will ensure visual continuity with in your piece. For example some shots have different exposures or color tones, these need to be balanced so shot to shot feels connected as the same time or place.
However technical color correction sounds, its actually quite an art form. The best color artists in the industry understand the psychology behind color and use it to invoke a mood or guide your eye toward the important information.
Enough with the talking, its visual a medium so heres a little eye candy from our buddy Jason Stratham ( Thank you for a killer 4th of July Party ).
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I hope that was a nice introductory to the art of the colorist. More to come on this subject as I will be working with the super talented and accomplished colorist Paul Bronkar on the “Toxic is Dead” music video.
S.
Franki Chan talks about TOXIC AVENGER Music Video
THE TOXIC AVENGER - his follow up single to his debut on IHEARTCOMIX has finally arrived! It’s a an epic jam entitles ‘Toxic Is Dead’ and takes toxic in a whole new direction. He’s both matured as a song writer and as an artist. The new single will blow people’s socks off. this release includes remixes by Drop The Lime, South Central, Cyber Punkers and me (making my remix debut)! We also have a killer video for this one. It looks like a big budget movie! It’s directed by our friend Steven Ilous (who has a killer resume). Toxic also has his own Scion compilation coming out that has ‘Toxic Is Dead’ as well as 4 other brand new tracks and 9 new remixes by Switch, Acid Girls, Jakwob, Ocelot, Harvard Bass, Burns, Ladytron, The Juan Maclean and Designer Drugs! All this leads to his full length which will be out sometime next year… There’s a bunch more stuff in the works, but that’s plenty of info for now :)
But I must start by doing the little things like they were Great and Wonderful"
Tim Burton’s “Alice in Wonderland” looks great. Some people say it looks too video game like, but what they don’t know is that the images released are just visual development art. The film will look even better with much more detail and life. Not to mention some of the characters are motion captured actors, which will be amazing to see Burton’s take on the expanded technology developed from Polar Express. -S
Toxic Avenger Music Video: Teaser Pt.2
On set Photo taken by: Caesar Sebastain. Directed by Steven Ilous
“Creative Grab Bag”
In the Spring of 2008, I made a really cool piece that will be appearing in a forthcoming book called “Creative Grab Bag”. You have to check it out. First time my artwork will be published.
Originally titled, “The Grab Bag Book”, curator Ethan Bodnar made a list of many different things that he then hand-picked for invited makers. People from all over the world contributed to make this book a reality.
The book is due out in August of this year by HOW Books, one of Simon Schusters diggs. It can now be pre-ordered on Amazon.com! More to come on this! (special thanks to Ethan!) - SMI
