Coney Island Travels

I have lived in NYC for 5 years and have never been to Coney Island until last weekend. Shot a music video for this cool artist from Budapest named Modus. He makes instrumental beats, think El-P and DJ Shadow. Anyways our shoot started at Coney Island then to Bushwick followed by Dumbo and lastly Jersey City.

I directed and shot this. When I got the song it really signaled a visual video so I figured it would be right up my ally to direct. It was a great experience and I hope to do it more.

As far as shooting goes, we shot with the RED One and Zeiss ZF (18mm, 35mm, 50mm, and 85mm). I wound up using the 18mm quite a bit as we were shooting 4.5k and I really wanted some wide Sergio Leone type landscape shots. Coney Island was a blast to shoot so many cool/visual things over there I wish I had taken advantage of it sooner.

I really like the RED + ZEISS combo, it really makes a nice image and is so much better to work with than the 5 or 7D. I like the weight, super 35mm sensor and just that its made for capturing moving images. Not a still camera with the option to shoot movies.

Anyways I hope to get a film project soon! So if you have one contact me :)