Our team hit the ground running after the APMAs to produce iMag for a local festival. Float Fest has been around for a few years now and right in our backyard, so it was a pleasure to make a quick drive to CRUSH artists like Girl Talk, Weezer, Cage the Elephant and more!
Two stages worth of iMag production over the course of a crazy hot and wet weekend. Good times.
Long in the works, our team was finally given the opportunity to produce the 2017 edition of the APMAs in Cleveland, Ohio!!! To say this was a massive undertaking is an understatement. Months worth of work and planning paid off though.
Working with the AP team was an incredible experience. We have made life long partners / friends and everyone is proud of what we were able to put together.
The live stream was 4 hours long, featured a dozen different awards and 16 artist performances ranging from the stage to the aisles. Highlights included Against Me! performing a career spanning medley, a drum off featuring Frank Zummo, Adrian Young and Josh Dunn, Set it Off! performing in the audience and a special appearance by GWAR!
You'll find a super cut of the performance highlights on the main page of our site.
When our friends at Pitchfork call in need of a director / shooters / etc, we answer! This time around their team was double booked and needed a director for their live stream of Alex G at Music Hall of Williamsburg.
Dusty headed to the city to punch the show with their team and it was a fantastic time had by all.
Pitchfork brought us on to direct and add support crew for a live stream of the band Whitney at the recently opened Brooklyn Steel in...Brooklyn. The venue rocks and sounds great. Everyone there was a pleasure to work with and the end product turned out pretty rad.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zewmEE6lyAI
More often than not, we are brought into conventional music venues to do that thing. Each venue is unique, but it's still essentially still a "music venue". Then, there's MEOW WOLF in Santa Fe, NM. This place can truly only be understood in person, but if you like climbing through a refrigerator and ending up in an under the sea themed lounge, or if the idea of exploring Lewis Carrol's dream house, then this place is for you!
Our team was brought in to shoot Hurray for the Riff Raff performing for a few hundred people in the performance space at Meow Wolf, and what an incredible experience! The venue itself leant to such an incredible vibe and look. We then tried to match the artistic vibes by shooting unique video clips for each song in Hurray's set. Overlaying these videos shot all over the Meow Wolf space really helped convey the artistic experience of attending / performing in the space.
Such a fun shoot and we truly hope to revisit Meow Wolf soon!
Our team had a soaked, yet fantastic time producing iMag for the main stage at FPSF in Houston, TX to kick off our relationship with C3.
There were multiple rain delays and some unfriendly conditions, but the experience overall was great and what we were able to crush, we did it in style!
The fine folks at Word Up Productions reached out to have a few rolls filled for their live stream of Skull Candy's "Showdown" to play the Warped Tour this Summer.
The live stream event was so well produced and we are very grateful to be involved. Dusty acted as Production Manager, Jon Burke was the live segment Stage Manager, Geoff Gan ran point as AC / Pit Cam Op and Dave Novak brought his talented eye to the BTS shooting. Overall, it was a great success. Hope to work with this same team again soon!
Our team is excited to be heading back to work with our friends at FestForums again this year in New York City. Craig from the team will be taking a provided feed at the Time Inc. HQ and encoding for a live stream of most of the main panels on May 11th and 12th.
Always a pleasure to be in the company of so many great industry event leaders.
There are few words that can capture the absolute magic that took place on 4/14 at The Walt Disney Concert Hall in LA. Pitchfork brought our team in to produce an incredible evening of music featuring Sigur Ros w/ The LA Philharmonic and then another full set with just the band alone.
It was stunning and we had a superb time capturing what will go down as one of our favorite shows ever. Here's the YouTube link that will only be live for a short period of time;
The amazing team at VideoStatic brought us out to engineer and TD a show with Bebe Rexha for Warner last week in NYC. It had been a minute since hitting the big city and it was so nice to return and feel at home.
The shoot went well and the show was quite impressive. She can definitely hold her own on the big stage and had so many hits! Here's some bts shots...
It was an absolute pleasure and honor to return to produce the 2017 Fader Fort. Our team had a year off and SXSW just didn't feel right. This year was the first in a new space with a much more intimate feel. There were a slew of great performances and the crowd seemed into the new space. Overall, it was great to be back with family.
You've got to prepare when shooting for Funny or Die. It's quite difficult to deliver steady footage when shaking from laughter. Our team had an early morning shoot with the FOD team at Voodoo Doughnuts in Austin promoting the film CHIPs. The team was great to work with and we all left on a sugar high.
During SXSW our team captured two new "Original Tracks" sessions for FLOOD and Penguin. This time around we had the pleasure of shooting with the bands FRENSHIP and Deep Valley in the insanely cool South Congress Hotel. The spaces we shot in were so unique and we are psyched to share these sessions!
Our great friends at FLOOD invited us to join them at FLOODfest again this year to produce their recap. The event was two days of fantastic performances featuring Temples, FRENSHIP, The Districts and The Black Lips. We shot over the course of both days and captured a ton of great content. Always great working with FLOOD and friends.
We are extremely proud and excited to share that our team will return to produce The Fader Fort this year at SXSW after a year off. The event is moving to a more intimate location and the overall feel is going to be all about the music / fan connection.
We can't wait to rejoin our Fader Fam and absolutely CRUSH this year a the Fort. Load in is one week away!!!
http://www.billboard.com/articles/events/sxsw/7709319/2017-fader-fort-lineup-new-venue-change
The Fader Fort brand new logo for 2017!
