Posts tagged SpecialEffects

• 22 Jul

  Blog: 99 Dollar Music Videos

  Indy Mogul Does Snorricam and Music Video

  If you're into DIY filmmaking and haven't checked out Indy Mogul yet, then boy, you are missing out. On the latest addition of Backyard FX, the gang made a Snorricam. What is that, you ask? It's a camera strapped to the body of an actor so that in each shot, the face of the actor is fixed but the wo

• 30 Apr

  Blog: Making Of

  Notes from the Director: Chris Piazza on "Elevenses"

  For the video I did with Neil Halstead, we definitely scraped by on a series of soft bribes – for instance, I drove my friend Matt to the beer depot to pick up a keg for his party and, in exchange, he agreed to be an extra in the video. But aside cashing in all the owed favors from everyone tha

• 11 Mar

  Blog: 99 Dollar Music Videos

  In The Spirit of Music Videos- 1st Featured Submission

  Since launching we’ve received numerous video submissions that were obviously made a long time before Music Videos even existed, Pre-Rules, as it may be. Does that mean we should ignore them? Heck no! So it’s without further ado we'd like to present our first edition of “In the Spirit”