About

I. CONCEPT

“Tetelestai” is a music video I produced for Eidola through Blue Swan Records. I’ve worked with Eidola many times prior to this project and have traveled the country with them a few times as their designated documentation manager, capturing their travels and their performances through photographs and videos.

When approached to produce this music video, the band more or less gave me free creative reign sas long as the product reflected the videos I had edited of their concerts and included choreography by the singer’s wife.

II. EXECUTION

Working the choreography into the video was the most difficult part. When I shoot bands — whether through photography or videography — I try to move with the band as much as possible. I adapted this approach to the dancers, and was happy with my results.

The band initially wanted to shoot the whole film in a banquet hall near their rehearsal space in Utah, but it had snowed a bunch shortly before I arrived, and I was able to convince the band to do half of the shooting in some of the beautiful forests in the surrounding regions.

The video was shot on a Sony a7sii and was pretty evenly split between intentionally drastic handheld footage and jump cuts shot on a tripod. Shooting in 4k allowed me to add a lot of digital panning to the tripod shots which brought more dynamics to the movement.

This whole film was edited and colored in Adobe Premiere Pro.

III. EPILOGUE

Besides the choreography, this was one of my simpler music videos. Despite that fact, it was one that opened up the door for me to shoot about a dozen or so simple single-camera music videos for similar bands in the niche community.

This project stands testament to the fact that a project is not defined by its intricacy.