Making a Music Video

Why would three girls stand in the middle of an abandoned highway? To stop a bad-ass dude in a El Camino, seduce him, and take off with his car...That's why! It's all part of the plot for the new music video entitled "Super Hero Mother-Fucker Superman" which was shot with the collaboration of L.A. and Tucson crew.

So you might ask what does a media arts student do on the weekends? Make movies of course! We have no time to sleep...really, we dont when we're spending 12 hours on a Saturady and Sunday to make a project look good. This past weekend I have had the rare opportunity to help produce and be the 2nd Assistant Director on a music video.

After two weeks of scrambling to secure Old Sonoita highway as the location...The seemingly endless search for models on Model Mayhem (the myspace-type forum for models), and having the port-o-potties sent to the wrong location (Oy Vey!), all and all the video turned out awesome and our team was able to crank out 80 different shots in one weekend!

Here's some photos taken during production:

photos from Teo/Ward Production

Photos taken by Jackie Lee James

The music video was made possible by a Director/Producer/Writer friend of mine, Pearry Reginald Teo, who is currently in post-production on his first hollywood feature "The Gene Generation". On the "Allhelluja" (name of the band) music video project he served as the producer and 1st Assistant Director. Chad Michael Ward was the director of the music video who is breaking into the directing business.

It was fun working with Pearry since I got to see first hand how a professional gets a crew to stay on task and gets the project done. Pearry is origionally from Tucson and so was the Director of Photography, Darin Meyer, a UA alum in Media Arts.

Right now the music video is in the editing process, but both Tucson and L.A. crew look forward to seeing the final product of a challenging and fun shoot.

For more information on Pearry and Chad's projects, check out:

Teo/Ward Productions