Music Videos

I've been trying to establish myself as a go to guy for visualizing and making music videos happen. So far I've had a few opportunities, one of which just finished up on Friday at a junkyard (B&H Salvage [who were insanely nice and crushed a few cars for us]). The first two I worked on were with my friend Ichiro Hino who I worked on some films with while shooting on 16mm in Production 2. Ichiro is a pretty amazing guy and has some really fantastic ideas. We shot the first video for The Gorilla Press on a shoestring budget using equipment Ichiro could salvage from his job (a dvx100 and an Arri 4 light kit), which you can see in the flagship post. Shortly after Ichiro decided to do another and brought me on, the result can be seen below. This weekend's was part favor and part audition for future work. Basically this band (Bad City) is about to release a single, which everyone is thinking will make them big time, and we were wanting an opportunity to shoot the video for it when that came around. A friend from school got asked to help and then brought me on to shoot it. So we did this out of our own pockets with equipment we had. It was shot on my 550d with whatever lights we could find at whatever locations we could manage. It's currently being edited by Sean and Steve who Directed and AD'd respectively. It's strange that these passions which drive us to do this kind of work, also drive us to do so much work for free, just to prove that someone should pay us to do it. It's kind of how the majority of the arts world work. I'm really hoping that once I've established a decent real and repertoire of music videos, that I will be able to shop myself around to do more. It's a really fun process and I've had the opportunity to work with two great bands full of really fantastic guys so far.

The Gorilla Press "Anger in the Drains"



Here is a little "making of..." video that was created for a local music press (excuse my extreme goofiness):

Day three of the rest of my life.

So it's the beginning of the end, which is an insanely dramatic thing to say, but I'm going to go ahead and say it anyway. I'm over that honeymoon period with film and am quick approaching the end of my formal education. It's now time to think profession and jobs and money and all of the things that take away from the fun enjoyable aspects of film. I've purchased a Canon 550d, the T2i, which is a fantastic little camera, you can read all about here, and I have begun to take on freelance productions. In addition I have started writing a script, which I hope to produce in the fall, and have been working on others' films. It's a strange transition to go from film school and its makeshift productions to real world work and trying to survive on the means these provide. I've rekindled my romance with photography upon purchase of the 550d and am really missing all my time spent in the darkroom post high school. This online journal will serve as a venture from film school to real world and will hopefully shed any light on what it means to make that transition. All production, photography and film work will be posted here and I'll try to explain as much of myself as possible.

For now, here is some of the work made in and outside of school over the last 2 years:

300.02 from Cory Popp on Vimeo.

Shot on the 550d for Production 3 experimental class. All available light with the kit lens at 18mm. Edited in Final Cut Pro without any color correction. Conceptualized by me.



Shot on the DVX100 using an Arri 4-light kit. Directed and edited by Ichiro Hino. Independent project funded on ours and the bands accord.

The Sleepwalker's Steps. A 16mm post sync sound exercise for my Production 2 class. Shot on a bolex using Kodak 7217 and 7231 stocks. Lit with a Lowel DP kit and available light. Edited and graded in Avid.

Also, M\my nightlife photography is being developed and can be found here.

Stay tuned.