Kid Savant - 4 Years - Director

This music video was a really fun project to shoot.  The band got in touch with me through Greg Gasson, the cinematographer on the project.  They already knew they wanted to shoot something that had a variety of object drops in freefall as well as the singer featured in freefall.  It needed to be blended with a performance set in the desert featuring the entire band.  They also wanted the motion of the performance section to stand out and not be the typical real time footage that is normally seen.  From there I developed a concept where the objects dropped from the plane would drag their mangled remains into "room without walls" set in the desert.  The band would use that as their stage to perform.  We had an amazing team of skydivers as well as two of the best camera flyers in the business, Greg Gasson and Joe Jennings.  They captured some amazing footage in freefall, flying with grand piano's, plants, bicycles, and a recliner.  We collected all the broken objects and set up a stop motion animation shot of them crawling into frame.  This was painstakingly done over hours, moving each object 12 inches, then shooting a frame.  After they were setup where they needed to be, the band started to perform, but I slowed the song down by 50% and shot at half speed as well.  When everything was played back at normal speed, the band moved twice as fast, but the song was playing at normal speed.  It gave the video a really interesting kinetic look.  

Director - Chris Burket
Producer - Anouschka Gasson
Aerial Director of Photography - Greg Gasson
Aerial Director of Photography - Joe Jennings
Air Drop Coordinator - Bryan Burke
Skydiver - Brandon Atwood
Skydiver - Amy Chemleki
Skydiver - Sara Curtis
Skydiver - Steve Curtis
Skydiver - Ty Losey