For The Fierce & The Few, I was given many photographs taken at various fires and rescues. Some of these pictures were so compelling that I needed to put them in the music video. A still image by itself rarely has the emotional impact needed in this kind of music video. Sometimes panning isn’t enough. Therefore I composited various flame and inferno footage in these images to give a vary unique look. These are still images….yet they’re video… yet it’s “a picture”. Most people upon seeing this state that they’ve not seen this kind of implementation before.

During the planning stage of this video, we thought it would be good to get some firemen out and stage a rescue from a burning house. For this sequence, we shot a fireman coming out of a house at dusk. Then I comped in fire elements to give the house the appearance of being a raging inferno. It worked so well, that the home owner thought he might try to pass it off to his insurance company…

 

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