4 posts tagged “thank you”

We got the shot wrapped under 2 hours and moved back to town to Mercury Live. Kevin and Morné kindly opened up the club earlier for us.

We had about 5 hours to set up and shoot some high energy footage for the choruses. Thanks to Eeshaam doing an outstanding and unexpected job as assistant director, everything went smoothly and I could concentrate on the setting up the shots and making sure it all looked outstanding. Eeshaam really has a way to explain what I have in mind to a crowd and get them hyper and excited about helping us out. He's got such a way with people and is even telepathic!! ;) Exactly what you need on a busy day of shooting!

We started with some stage performance by Jaak and Konfab, followed by some crowd shots (THANK YOU so much to everybody who turned up and showed so much energy and enthusiasm for the shot!). We also got blessed by Ameen and his krump dancers showing off their sickest moves (and the best pairs of trainers I have seen in a while. Stylish!!). We also got blessed with a group of female dancers who had a special choregraphy for the track. We did some cameos in an unexpected location (thanks D and Konfab) and even got a visit by Mizi, Simone and Blacklez from Hype Magazine / Joburg. It was very nice hooking up and thanking them personally after they did a feature on the Go Against Us video in this June 2007's issue. Thanks guys!

We then finished the Mercury Live shoot in the back office, as per the press release photoshoot, where we filmed Dplanet and Konfab performing the intro of the track. Once again, some startling performances by Konfab!

By lunchtime, there was quite a big crowd watching the filming outside of Jaak's house. (Btw, thanks to Jaak's aunt for letting us roam freely around the house for such a long time too!).

Dplanet decided to use the kids for the wheel pushing shot. Eeshaam rallied all  the kids at the crossroad and made them run down the street, chasing Jaak pushing his wheels. It was absolutely fantastic and so much fun to capture. I love this kind of unexpected action in shoots,, when things just fall in place and more than what you planned happens! Thanks kids!! We then made our way to Paarl's hood where we got permission to shoot. We parked the car, I took the camera on my shoulder and off we went.

The place was really graphic in its architecture and colours, then the amount of kids surrounding us was insane. Everybody was enjoying Jaak's track and joined in! We even had to ask everybody to form a circle around Jaak so I could see him,, The kids wouldnt let us go afterwards, they all wanted their photos taken, so we obliged for a while. We also left a couple of CDs behind as thank you gifts. I must say I had a little pinch in my heart seeing so many people sharing the same thing and showing so much love and support just like this,, it was awesome!!

We drove back to town under very heavy rain to Marvel on Long Street for our last location of the shoot. Linda did a cameo for Dice Life, throwing the dices on  the pool table. Konfab and Jaak did some performance shots in front of the pool table with everybody playing foetsball in the background.

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