The music video for the Steve Forde track “Hurricane” was a classic rockin’ performance video. We got a fantastic location of the old Eveleigh train sheds in Sydney. It has a great gritty feel to it which was really suited to the style of clip Steve wanted to make. The band were awesome and kept the energy up take after take and as you can see from the behind the scenes video Dave Robinson had to double time it on the drums a few times so we could get some slow motion footage of him playing to the song. In order to do that and have it sync up perfectly with the original track, we have to make a version of the song that runs at exactly double the speed. Then we roll the cameras to record twice as many frames per second as normal. So we run them at 50 frames per second and then slow it down in post production so it plays back at 25 frames and this gives a nicer, cleaner slow motion than simply slowing down regular speed footage.

We shot the clip with Canon EOS cameras and a mix of Canon and Zeiss glass. The small size of these cams allowed us to easily mount overhead shots on a c-stand and get some different angles that way. The shoot was mostly off sticks with a few shots from the Kessler Pocket Dolly. The main rig that I used was my Zacuto Z-Cage which I have customized a little with rear extension rods to allow for my HDMI-SDI converter box and also to mount the Marshall field monitor. The Z-Cage has handles all round which I love for carrying it around from setup to setup and also for added stability when doing whip pans or any camera movement in general. Thanks to our crew and cast for another enjoyable shoot.