I know what you’re thinking. But do you have any football videos? I don’t. I have two football videos!!!! And an ultimate frisbee just because.
First up, Ten Foot Pole. The song is called “Armchair quarterback”. So obviously a football video. The video explains itself. But, as always, whats the creative catch? I always wanted to do a fake slow motion video. Where the people just act in slow motion. The idea was to have a football game at the end of the video in a small apartment and have everyone doing their best NFL films dramatic acting. The funny part was watching the footage and actually having quite a few scenes look like real slow motion. So here you go. Guy gets invited to watch football, guy invited invites friend from work, friend from work invites everyone he knows. I’m not sure why there is an asian guy in cheerleader drag at the end. These things get fuzzy 10 years later or so.
Next up, Jimmy Eat World. Lets see, how did this come about? At the time Jimmy didn’t have much money for a video. Then one of their songs ends up on the Never Been Kissed soundtrack. Yes, the Drew Barrymore movie. They throw some money at it and the usual just mix in movie footage. Band shows up to my place, I shoot them against the super 90’s sponged wall I had painted in my condo, long lens, just fill the frame and whammo! a performance. Then head to the local park and create a bunch of scenes where the band has a day off and tries to have a fun time playing casual sports. And everywhere they go the serious guys shows up and ruin the day. I remember shooting with the biggest Panavision camera the world had to offer at the time. All that 35MM I’m a real filmmaker lens is bigger than a toddler serious stuff. Boring. Just took so long to shoot everything. But thats another story and eventually will lead into my mockery of all things 4K and RED Cameraish.
And finally my second football video. The Supertones. The band had this idea. From a production standpoint I had to actually storyboard every shot. Cant really just show up and shoot with two football teams. The local Christian school was about to open their stadium and they were kind enough to let us use everything including uniforms. A good friend of mine played college ball, drilled all the plays and coached the band and high school athletes for all the plays. As I write this i’m remembering that this was the only video that I ran through another production company. And low and behold someone at the company decided to take my edit, which was already approved, and make their own version. And that was the first and last time I ever ran a video through another company. And I shot it all 16mm NFL films hand held.