MUSIC VIDEOS
Directed by Bradley Hasse
Sizzle Reel
Straight No Chaser "That's What I Like" (Official Music Video)
(Director, Producer, Editor)
OVERVIEW:
BIG, high energy performances matched with a humorous storyline. The group carries this duality with them and we wanted to showcase that here.
We had only five days from the moment it was green lit to the day of the shoot, so one of the solutions was to film everything at the New York Atlantic Records offices. This included turning the main conference room into a performance space and the actual cubicles into the “storyline” locations.
The Ramona Flowers "Strangers" (Cut-Down)
(Director, Producer, Editor)
Behind the Scenes:
CREDITS
Label: Distiller Records
Director: Bradley Hasse
Cinematographer: Evan Jake Cohen
Featuring: Randy "Kid the Wiz" Vargas
Production Co: Flying Cactus
EP: Bradley Hasse
Line Producer: Jordan Tarazi
Production Manager: Cletus Mckeown
"Planet of the Apes Party Fun Time"
(Director, Editor)
OVERVIEW:
Done just for fun (and very unofficially).
After working with the Far East Movement on a few shoots for MTV, including a "live performance" music video of their song Go Ape, I came up with this concept where they'd be performing on the Planet of the Apes, comped into footage from the original film. While that music video never happened, I still couldn't get the idea out of my head so I decided to experiment with the concept anyway. The new idea was simply to see if I could re-edit the film into something new and fun and fully of awesomeness. Many hours later after combing through the film an insane amount of times, after experimenting with different techniques to "remix" the moments, as well as teaming up with the talented graphics artists Brian Walsh and Maryam Parwana to insert things like the glowsticks and discoballs and shiny discopants, the final result is what you see here. We had a big launch party for this two minute video with wine, cheese, and bananas.
Goal: While on vacation in Thailand, make a short film with minimal resources. The result...
Moby "Saints" (Official Music Video)
(Director, Cinematographer, Editor)
For an upcoming family trip to Thailand, I decided to come up with a small short film to create during this journey, eventually it all came together with the track "Saints" by Moby, and he released it as his official music video.
I nearly froze all of my toes and fingers off in New York, and then got to make a complete fool of myself while doing the water scenes in Thailand. Seeing a grown man in mask and snorkel in only 2 feet of water, GoPro on a stick in one hand, soggy wet rat in the other, while flopping around frantically, probably isn’t what the beach goers on vacation were expecting when they woke up that morning. I noticed they did their best to keep their children (and pets) away.
And for the trash can scene at the end (filmed with a prop trash can with “clean” garbage inside), people couldn’t understand why I wouldn’t let them throw away THEIR waste in MY trash. Again, adding the rat puppet into the mix didn’t help either.
Goal: Musical body parts! Boombox Man! He's alive! The result...
Scion A/V Presents: Zombie Nation "Level" (Official Music Video)
(Director, Editor)
Scion A/V came to me for their sponsored music video project after seeing a clip I did for RJD2. For quite awhile I had the idea of a belly boombox man bopping around town while blasting his music, so I finally got to put that into action with this video.
We went through a series of tests to figure out if it should be done practically or with CG, and in the end went with practical (with a sprinkle here and there of post production to make the speaker move). When there is a visual element that is at the very center of the story, it's great to actually see and feel that on set, rather than just imagine it with tracking marks on someone's body. It came in very handy when we walked around the East Village looking for dancing partners, as people could immediately "get it" and join in.
