Music video: Heartstreets – cruising with you

Music video: Heartstreets – cruising with you

Shot over two days in two locations, this music video directed by Charlotte Ratel Zachary Lavertu show a who’s very passionate about music fall in love with a deaf girl. Slow vistas, emotional close ups and vibrant portraits shot by Christophe Dalpé.

The 4 different sets were treated independently. The range of the Alexa and the art direction helped a lot. The 2-tone lighting also did a wonderful job on the recorders and the portraits.

Here are some still from my grade.

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And here is the final result:

Cruising With You from Heartstreets on Vimeo.

Cruising with you by Heartstreets
Produced by Coton&Club
Directors: Charlotte Ratel et Zacharie Lavertu
Production: Coton & Club
DOP: Christophe Dalpé
Actors: Julianne Côté et Guillaume Laurin
Produced with the financial assistance of MuchFACT, a division of Bell Media Inc. muchfact.ca

WEB: Blind love – Tourisme-Québec

WEB: Blind love – Tourisme-Québec

A unique projet crafted by LG2 and 1One. This video shows the journey of Danny Kean, a blind man, through Quebec and aims to illustrate the different way to live and feel your trip in Quebec. This piece is part of an interactive experience available at www.quebecoriginal.com. The instant viral potential of this touching video really pushed it on every media available here and around the world.

It was shot over a short 12-day trip on various cameras. It was graded at 1one where I shared the station on various pieces with Vickie-Lynn  Roy. Please go have a look a the website for the full experience!

 

TVC: Raymond Chabot

TVC: Raymond Chabot

This was my second commercial grade for MOM Industries. This tv commercial, directed by Sandra Coppola, was shot on Alexa in a single day. Most of it happen insider an office. A pretty basic setup that had to feel like calm and inspire confidence.

A lot was done to unify the colors as there wasn’t much art direction in the set except for the costumes. The result is clean, simple and efficient.

This was graded on Resolve at MOM Industries office in Montreal.

 

 

Music video: Coeur de Pirate – I Don’t Want to Break Your Heart

Music video: Coeur de Pirate – I Don’t Want to Break Your Heart

Here is another collaboration with Roméo & Fils, director Martin C. Pariseau and DP extraordinaire Jessica Lee Gagnée. I graded my third music video for Coeur de Pirate’s latest album. I Don’t Want to Break Your Heart is a great pop song featuring Allan Kingdon.

Shot on Alexa, the videos was shot on many sets, mostly dark ones. The goal was to make every place a little different while feeling we’re still in the same universe: a classic. We were able to bring out very nice tones by using practical lighting like the break lights of a car and the mercury bulbs in a tunnel.

Here are some still in high quality.

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Here is the final result.

Web: CRDI de Québec

Web: CRDI de Québec

While working at QuebeComm I met Rabii Rammal, a young director and Antoine Ryan, DP. Together they shot this piece for the CRDI de Québec a non-profit organization fundraiser for children with intellectual difficulties.

The video in a heart warming demonstration on intimacy between a child with intellectual difficulties and the different members of its family and how they discover each other.

I graded the video at QuebeComm’s Montreal office where I also grade LOL and Complex G.  We gave it a true-to-life feel and tried not to fall in a warm feel-good  or  blue depressive look. It was a very basic grade with curves, skin tone secondaries and subtle vignettes here and there.

Here is a gallery of stills:

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Web Series: Ouisurf Kooks & Hurricanes

Web Series: Ouisurf Kooks & Hurricanes

Ouisurf is back for another surf adventures. In Kooks & Hurricanes, they teamed up with Honda to travel to northern coasts. In these 3 episodes, they show us amazing surf spots in not so familiar places: Maine, British-Columbia and Rhode Island.

I graded the three episodes on Resolve in my studio following a very different path than what I had done with the previous tv series. Guys wanted to have a more East Coast vibe, more earthy.

I went for some very vibrant greenish blues that really represented how cold the water was. Contrast and sharpness were pushed on portraits the give back some details in the skin tones that fell right in the complementary colors of the water.

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The Tofino episodes was darker but full of nice greens brought by the wet forest sections. I really was a fun to bring out the life in the trees and the wooden house.

Here are two episodes:

Kooks and Hurricanes – Ep 01 – Maine from ouisurf.ca on Vimeo.

Kooks and Hurricanes – Ep 02 – Tofino from ouisurf.ca on Vimeo.