New Fun with Outcast Performing Arts
It's been a while, so I figured I'd take a chance to share some of the fun stuff I've been working on...
This was a great project I shot a couple of months ago for Outcast Performing Arts.
I was given a handful of insanely talented dancers, singers and musicians... A half day in the QUT film studio... and complete creative freedom.
Since there were no expectations for the outcome I decided to make something a little different for them.
Normally, the Outcast 'look' is very dark and menacing. But with the Creative Director's blessing I went in the complete opposite direction. I wanted ghostly and ethereal. So I decided to try something I've never attempted.
Crazy, fast motion is normally something you try to freeze and capture in all its detailed glory. But these are 2 second exposures! Pretty cool, huh? The combination of ambient, shutter speed, motion and flash gave me all the sweet details as well as all the blur in the same shot.
It's always a blast working with this crew which I've written about here.
The top composite is my own interpretation of what we captured, but the pieces they used were made a bit darker for the website which you can see here.
I think the most important point to make is that this didn't spring from my mind when I showed up for the shoot. Yes, it was an untested experiment (which is a bit crazy) but 2 things worked in my favor.
1. Outcast is super experimental, always trying to push the boundaries of what we expect from live performance – so it fit their ethos.
2. I had spent hours considering the concept and technical details.
Of course, I had a back up plan ready to go if the hybrid didn’t work out. But good planning and conceptualizing is the real reason this worked.