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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In response to the attacks on September 11, 2001, singer and song writer Tracy Barker was inspired to write this song. The words and feelings simply flowed from her heart. When I was asked to turn it into a music video, I was honored. Like most people that horrific day, I ran several video tapes on different channels and captured as much of those events as possible.

We never published this video in mass quantity. It only enjoyed limited viewing in several churches and on our respective web sites. However, I consider it one of my favorite pieces.

 

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“….they come ready to give their lives so that your child, parent…..or friend might live”

The Fierce & The Few video project was produced in order to raise a national awareness and to re-capture a lost respect and admiration for the men andwomen who daily lay their lives in harm’s way, so that we may be able to survice life’s most tragic moments.

The Fierce and The Few from Dave Curlee on Vimeo.