Skyfall - Opera Cover
NeverSayDie
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Hi guys and girls,
I've just completed a music video for an opera singer called Shelley Anne Rivers. She covered 'Skyfall' and knowing I was a music video director and massive 007 fan got me to produce the video. I tried to pay homage to Binder and Brownjohn with some of the shots. It was a lot of fun to make and research.
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Have a watch and see what you think of it.
It's not meant to replace to original in anyway it's just a different take on a wonderful song.
Chris -{
https://youtu.be/Lfnl1GvRwic
I've just completed a music video for an opera singer called Shelley Anne Rivers. She covered 'Skyfall' and knowing I was a music video director and massive 007 fan got me to produce the video. I tried to pay homage to Binder and Brownjohn with some of the shots. It was a lot of fun to make and research.
)Have a watch and see what you think of it.
It's not meant to replace to original in anyway it's just a different take on a wonderful song.
Chris -{
https://youtu.be/Lfnl1GvRwic
Comments
even the video looks very cheap
On the bed in the dress shot from above. -{ very elegant.
Thank you Thunderpussy
Thank you for your constructive and well thought out feedback HatThrowingHenchman remembering that several human beings with feelings have put a lot of time and effort in to this. I appreciate the time you took to write just one positive thing and being a true supportive member of the James Bond community.
I wish you well with all your creative endeavours in the future
You wanted to know what people thought about it. If you don't like negative feedback, then don't ask for opinions, and don't throw your teddy out of the pram when you get what you asked for, but wasn't what you actually wanted. If people don't get honest opinions how can anyone better their work?
Appealing to the community for support without negative feedback is never going give you fair opinions about your work, just ones you like to hear. It's like asking your parents if they thought your idea/performance was good. It's not a helpful or insightful opinion that will better you in any way. Replying to someone who disliked it with sarcasm and with reproach does you no favours. You asked, you got. Accept, ignore, learn from it, your choice. Veiled insults is never good.
My simple opinion after viewing it once: The performance of the song wasn't the best. The video was obviously not original and inspired by past film intros we've seen a million times and have been parodied and copied ad nauseum. You achieve some beautifully lit shots, but it isn't going to win any originality awards. As a fan video it's bloody good, as a professional video for a career singer, it's not.
Sorry, just being truthful. If you'd rather I'd have lied then PM me and I'll change the post. Or you can be rude about my opinion and we'll both move on, and I'll apologise for letting the whole Bond community down..... or not.
Miss Rivers looks lovely, she has a terrific voice, and the video is top notch stuff.
I can see what the others are saying about the song, it's odd hearing the lyrics being sung in such a high pitch compared to Adelle, with less orchestration, but I enjoyed it nevertheless.
More please!
Thank you for your honest feedback. No the video is not original and was not in any way intended to be, it was supposed to be a homage to the title sequences of the past. This is what the artist requested. We looked at particular title sequences for colour ideas etc. I'm glad you like the shots they took a long time to light. The scene with her on the fur rug is all lit with pink LED tea lights gently waved above her. This was a happy accident on set and gave a great result. This is a technique I'm going to use again.
Regards the song I had no involvement in it's recording. I too prefer the original edgy Adele version, this is a very different take on it.
I'm not asking for you all to enlarge my ego and give me compliments. I actually post stuff here to get feedback. I really do appreciate and take on board what you guys say. All I just ask that people aren't rude and remember there is a human being behind this post.
So please do hit me up with ideas, changes, possible alterations for the future. Stuff like, ' Really liked it but I feel like there could have been more wide shots, there were too many close up shots back to back' or ' i like the start but I think the cutting got too fast near the end'. This is all great feedback I can use for future productions.
Cheers guys! -{
and a gun. In it Not getting too phallic ? I do realise that never
Was a problem on the Bond titles as that was obviously what they
Were going for at times ( TMWTGG, titles
I was only wondering if it is a concern, for a more " Family viewing "
Music video.
You've hit the nail on the head! I wish I'd shot less with the gun. Especially the one with the silencer (which in fact is a toy gun from ASDA for £6 sprayed up). I only really noticed how phallic it was in the edit.
Personally I wish I had more time to shoot more cutaways to insert between shots and try and been more experimental but when you're pressed for time it becomes tricky. 15 hours flies by!!!
I would love to have a go with black light paint similar to the AVTAK titles.
Bond's world works best reflecting the aspects of action (the gun does do that) and luxury. Diamonds, expensive drinks, and nature elements with a twist. Water, fire, mild storm effects etc. you have that in the video, esp the Chinese lanterns on the water, the aforementioned overhead shot and great lighting effects.
As a counter suggestion, what about a little dry ice for cloud effects, with low light, to create a slightly translucent effect, or alternatively, light reflected through lenses or broken glass to create rainbow effects with a natural light effect?
Very Skyfall casino.
I remember reading years ago about a screen change Lon Chaney did for a
Film version of Jekyll and Hyde ( in the silent era) in which his face changed
Completely, to a horrid mask of evil. He only used make up and wouldn't tell
How it had been achieved for years. Until he told the story of him using infra-red
Sensitive make up and an infra red lighting rig, so the special make up could only
Be seen as the infra-red lights were increased. -{
( I'm saying infra-Red, it could have been UV, I can barely remember the story )
Still it scared the pants off the audience, which is all that matters.
Talented guy none the less.
Was J&H, as women were fainting at it ( the wimps) way back in the 1890s
Era. I remember that from a Blue Peter special.
* no, I wasn't there....
I also think your right about the ATAK titles, it can look cheap. I think if I did black light I'd try mixing a couple of techniques together or as Thunderpussy suggested maybe infra-red/UV.
Yes, the floating lanterns were straight from Skyfall. I took around my Greg Williams Skyfall photo book to show Shell and she stopped on a the arrival at the casino page and said 'I love that!'.
Huge thank you to Barbel and Thunderpussy for the Jekyll and Hyde clip!!!
Ironically I have to shoot a video scene EXACTLY like this for a stage production of J&H next year. He looks into a mirror which will be actually be a flat screen TV and the audiences sees the transformation. You've done my research for me!!! -{
I tried reading Dracula once but gave up as it's so slow for a modern dude
like me.
2 free tickets for us, then?
So someone off stage can appear on stage as a ghost etc.
( Also from Blue Peter, I get most of my facts from there)
I'll see what I can do. Halloween 2016.
Ah! Pepper's ghost.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pepper%27s_ghost
I remember seeing this at the Doctor Who Blackpool exhibition as a child and watching a model of the TARDIS disappear. It blew my mind. That could do another way of doing it!!
I agree. I much prefer to do everything in camera as possible as opposed to do it with CGI.
Of what the " Vampires" in " I am Legend" would have looked like, if they
Had used the masked etc ( showed some test footage) and it looked far
better than the cartoonish Gouls we ended up with.
Even many modern magic asts, although they look all up to date and
Trendy, all use old techniques from the Victorian era and earlier. Variations
On " Pepper's Ghost" you mentioned to hide stuff.