ANTM Cycle20: Nail Art Runway
while this video technically falls under the umbrella of the ANTM BTS videos i shot for cycle 20, i felt it deserved its own mention on the site.
the nail art runway show was shot during the filming of the nail art photoshoot episode of Top Model cycle 20. a pretty busy day at smashbox studios in culver city. on top of filming two regular BTS pieces and a second round of plea videos, i set up a custom-made runway (created by ANTM set decorator John Sparano) and a bunch of my own DMX-controlled LED lighting fixtures. i added a little fog machine magic and makeshift followspots ($15 LED flashlights from home depot) and i suddenly had a higher production value for this idea than i had anticipated.
back in post, i used davinci heavily on this piece. despite the amount of lighting fixtures involved, i had some pretty contrasty and noisy footage to work with. a little noise reduction and i was able to get some pretty clean images and push the latitude of the 5DII footage as far as possible in davinci. in fact, those with a keen eye will see a few spots where the h.264 codec falls apart due to the rather extreme colour correction... but a fair tradeoff given the overall richness of the piece.
DIRECTOR/CAMERA: chris morgan
SET CONSTRUCTION: john sparano
POST: darkenergymedia
CAMERA: Canon 5DII
LIGHTING: ADJ Visi-Spot LED
COLOUR: DaVinci
