RareForm Entertainment Blog

Company Head Shots for Filament Features

2011-01-11T11:59:00.002-08:00

Recently We were hired to take the head shots for the production company Filament Features.

We decided on four locations around Hollywood, my favorite being a dark tunnel with amazing color reflected on the walls. I used a 70-200mm lens to take the portraits, with a silver reflector kicking up some extra light.

Here are a few of my favorite shots (you can view the rest
here!):

Making of: Amador Rojas: Flamenco Documentary in Sevilla & Madrid 2010

2011-01-11T11:59:00.000-08:00

In August of 2010, Damon Cirulli of RareForm, was hired to DP a documentary on a Flamenco Dancer named Amador Rojas in Spain for Alma y Arte.

Amador is an amazing dancer of Flamenco who pays tribute to the old styles while creating a new fusion of movement and dance. For the month of August, the crew and I followed him through his home town of Seville, through smokey flamenco bars and performance halls, while he told his story. After spending time with his family and learning about Amador's childhood we took a train to Madrid to search out the first places Amador took to the stage.

The documentary is just now getting edited so look out for it in 2011.

Here is a short documentary I directed and edited which we originally used to raise money for our trip.

Making of: FaderTouch Demo with VJ Fader

2011-01-11T11:58:00.001-08:00

VJ Fader is demonstrating faderTouch (rear projection touchscreen) controlling visualSynth, an interactive visualizer app programmed in Processing.

Soundtrack: Rubicon by Bluetech

Shot on Canon 5D by Damon Cirulli

Mirror-Space + Momentum Promo

2011-01-11T11:57:00.003-08:00

In October of 2010, I was hired to shoot and edit a promotional video for the non-profit mirror-space and the event company Momentum at their Venice Art Crawl After Party at Focus Studios.

The party was a success, with lots of people, good dj's and interesting art.

Making of: Ivy Green - "Stomp Your Feet"

2011-01-11T11:57:00.001-08:00

Our trip to Europe came about as a result of a job offer to shoot a music video for an iconic singer named Ivy Green, who works for a talented young Berlin music producer by the name of Sebastian Budde.

The idea behind the Ivy Green music video “Stomp Yo Feet” was simple enough. Ivy would paint a picture of herself in an art studio. As she is painting the picture of herself, it comes to life and begins singing the “Stomp” song. After the painting is fully converted to a moving landscape of colors and textures, with the pictureland Ivy in the middle, the real Ivy takes the painting down from it’s isle and carries it through the streets of Berlin.

We shot all over the city, mainly using a 5D Mark II, with a 50mm 1.2 lens, mounted on a steady cam. We focused our first two days of shooting on the eastern side of the city in Friedrichshain, by the crumbling wall, that is now covered with graffiti and large art exhibits called the East Side Gallery. The art studio we used was also nearby.

To make it easier for our VFX guy to track and composite Ivy in the painting world, while being carried down the street, we fastened a thick piece of green screen paper to the inside of the picture frame.

The third day of shooting took us to strange partially abandoned building that every inch of was covered with old concert flyers and graffiti. It was ten stories high; and the very top floors had been converted into shabby artist residences. We shot on the bottom two floors.

The scene was: Ivy carries the painting into the building and mounts it on one of the graffiti sewn walls. The camera zooms into the painting and we are suddenly transported to a huge party in the exact same room with tons of people wearing strange animal masks.

We shot with two 5D’s, one on sticks with a 70-200mm lens and the other with the earlier steady cam set up. The extras and dancers were great, though it took a few beers to loosen them up that my producer handed out. Oh to be shooting in Germany where beer is subsidized by the Government! It’s everywhere, even in movie theaters and Mc’donneys.

After pulling off the party scene that left only the last green-screen shots of Ivy to capture before we could rap. After negotiating with multiple small studios there in Berlin, we found one that would work with our budget. The place was called Frogfish Studios. The shooting went smoothly, though they didn’t have a green screen available so we were forced to shoot on a blue one. Which was not ideal but for the short notice and price was worth it in the end.

You can view the video here:

Shot in Berlin on the 5D Mark II.

Idea by: Damon Cirulli

Produced by: Sebastian Budde

Directed by: Damon Cirulli

Shot by: Larkin Donley and Damon Cirulli

Edited by: Shay Datcher

"De-Funkitized" - All Destroyed Momentarily's debut single music video

2011-01-11T11:56:00.000-08:00

Adam Ferrick's band All Destroyed Momentarily's debut single, De-Funkitized from their sophmore release, Straight Outta Commune, coming soon.

Shot and Directed by Damon Cirulli

Edited by Ishmael Corpas