It is so great working with Mike from CollideEntertainment.com because I get pushed to do projects I have never done before. I had to help create 7 different sets for a @davidmorinmusic video.
Out of the seven sets I was worried the most about making a mine since we only had 2 days to build all 7 sets. I got it done! Of course with the help of some amazing film volunteers ... let's see how we built the mine.
I had no idea how to do this so researched YouTube and found this great guy who makes all kinds of amazing things ... you can check him out here: News Paper Rocks Video, Fake Rock Face tips Video
My sample to see if it was going to work ... I think it will do the trick.
So, basically here are the steps:
Pick an area and throw down a bunch of random objects,
Using newspaper, paper mache' all the objects, I did 3 layers (Fist layer: only wet the top side, all other layers you want paper mache on both sides.)
Let it dry completely
Paint it all black
Add a light grey colour with a dryer brush hitting all the raised parts
Go back with a dry brush with a dirty white and hit only the highest points. (do this quickly without thinking too much)
Hang it on your wall.
Many sheets drying
Next I needed to create the bones of the cave. The challenge with this was because there was 7 other sets I only had scrap wood to work with but I could not justify buying more wood so I used my pneumatic nail gun and scraped together a shape that resembled a cave.
nailing scraps of wood together to make the cave.
Started to hang all the sheets of paper
Started to paint it all black.
@SophyRomvari and I did the final touches to make the rocks pop.
The final Result with Lighting brilliance of @ByronKopman
Other crazy cool music video with Mike Southworth from collide entertainment where I get to play with cardboard which I think is becoming one of my favourite mediums to work with.
The music video takes place around 1985 where the band The Matinée are around age 5-7 years old and are on their very first tour. My part of the music video project is to build all the instruments (Drums, bass amp, guitar amp, acoustic guitar, electric guitar and bass ) using household items. So the kids The Matinée put on a huge music concert for their parent and stuffed animals in the living room.
The biggest challenge with this is making the instruments be able to take a beating from Five, 5 year old hyper boys and still look homemade. I also wanted to replicate The Matinée’s real instruments since the video will switch to them in present time. I wanted the instruments to look like they fit the kids and so could not copy the actual size. Here is what I came up with.
The Cardboard Amps
Were made using cardboard boxes as the foundation then painted. For knobs I used beer/pop bottle caps and lego as power buttons and standby buttons. Then to finish off the amps used jump/skipping ropes as patch cords.
This is a play on 1980’s Marshall Stacks using cardboard, beer/pop bottle caps, and lego
Wanted these to resemble vintage tweed fender amps
The bass cabinet had to have a real monitor that was used to playback the song the band would be rock'n out to so I cut out some round holes and put landscaping cloth so the sound can still travel through it.
The Drums
These were the greatest challenge because they had to be strong enough to take a beating which they did and they stood up to it. I had to incorporate wood so I made stands out of wood with plywood bottoms.
Top view of the drums 80% finished
Adding The Matinee logo to the bass drum
Guitars
I built a couple of different guitars because I was not sure which ones they were going to use in the video.
Fender Strat. almost complete.
acoustic formation backside
acoustic from front.
Microphone
Had to use my daughter to give me an idea of what size to make it. even know she is way younger.
Power Wheels - re-paint
I also had to quickly paint this girls I jeep that was originally purple, pink and light blue princess designed power wheels. So Red, Black it changed.
