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Food video May 15, 2019

Broken heart

It was a fantasy folk music video from IRDORATH in which we tried to invent (reconstruct) the events of the past, when sorcerers and game hunters still existed. In the video, we used natural locations and tried, to the best of our ability, to replicate the props and clothing of those times. It was very difficult because a lot of things were invented from scratch.

The idea for the video was invented by the performers of the group, and in our opinion, it fit perfectly with the music, which also refers us to ancient times. There were a lot of difficulties during filming for a video with such a scenario. Preparing the project for filming took two weeks, the main part of which was collecting props.

Task

Make a music video on a historical theme with national motifs, flavor and plot, in which a scene from old times will be played out. The props were collected by the artists together with the rest of the team in order to fit into those ancient times as much as possible.

  • Crew

    Nadya Kalach, Sasha Aleinikov, Vitaly Mazepin, Stas Kalilaska, Vasya Khvalyuk, Igor Kuzavka, Dima Stelmakh, Nastya Sadovnikova

  • Equipment

    ARRI, Cooke, DJI, SmallHD, TVLogic

  • Client

    IRDORATH

Shooting videos for IRDORATH has always been an interesting event for us. It took 40 hours of continuous filming to shoot the video in Minsk. Would you like to order a clip in a similar style? Write to us in telegram @yourproduction
Shooting videos for IRDORATH has always been an interesting event for us. It took 40 hours of continuous filming to shoot the video in Minsk. Would you like to order a clip in a similar style? Write to us in telegram @yourproduction
Shooting videos for IRDORATH has always been an interesting event for us. It took 40 hours of continuous filming to shoot the video in Minsk. Would you like to order a clip in a similar style? Write to us in telegram @yourproduction

⬤ 01. Challenge

Make a fantasy folk music video about the events of the times of kings and secret rituals.

The fantasy folk music video of the group IRDORATH has become a beautiful example of Belarusian creativity in the video segment. A team of professional video makers took on the work, initiated by the musicians. Meetings were held throughout the week to discuss ideas, locations, and scenes. Then we drew up a detailed script, storyboard, moodboard, and then started choosing locations. The area was supposed to look alien, uninhabited, to show ancient times. If you want to order a similar music video for a fantasy folk group, check out the Instagram of our production company YOPRST.

Shooting the music video was quite an interesting experience for our cameraman Sasha Aleinikov, since such stories and reconstructions of certain images are quite rare. All the actors in the video are siblings. As conceived by the authors, the actors showed their interaction with the environment, how they lived and what they did.

The script showed how brothers and sisters gather from distant lands into a single family, bringing certain powers and traditions. It became interesting for us to show this whole story in natural locations. I even had to find a real horse.

⬤ 02. Production and post

To properly prepare an excellent fantasy folk music video, you need to allocate enough time and money.

The fantasy folk music video often looks out of date, but don’t worry about that. This is done intentionally, because the directors are trying to give the picture a look, as if the clip was shot on rare cameras. Of course, in those days there could not be any cameras, but who thinks about it. If you want to commission a fantasy folk video, start by developing a script. It is musicians who often act as screenwriters in such projects, because they deeply know that period. Perhaps they even conducted research and reconstruction, but they definitely know more about that time.

There was little time and a small budget for filming, but the video production company managed to prepare well. The author of the idea prepared the storyboard for the entire video, since during the preparation stage she studied at the Minsk film school. Preparations for filming were ready within two weeks.

The cameraman chose an interesting location for filming, which easily immersed the viewer in the old world. In one scene, a small accident occurred with a horse, in which he almost crushed the cameraman and the camera.

Shooting videos for IRDORATH has always been an interesting event for us. It took 40 hours of continuous filming to shoot the video in Minsk. Would you like to order a clip in a similar style? Write to us in telegram @yourproduction
Shooting videos for IRDORATH has always been an interesting event for us. It took 40 hours of continuous filming to shoot the video in Minsk. Would you like to order a clip in a similar style? Write to us in telegram @yourproduction
Shooting videos for IRDORATH has always been an interesting event for us. It took 40 hours of continuous filming to shoot fantasy folk music video in Minsk. Would you like to order a clip in a similar style? Write to us in telegram @yourproduction
Shooting videos for IRDORATH has always been an interesting event for us. It took 40 hours of continuous filming to shoot the video in Minsk. Would you like to order a clip in a similar style? Write to us in telegram @yourproduction
Shooting videos for IRDORATH has always been an interesting event for us. It took 40 hours of continuous filming to shoot the video in Minsk. Would you like to order a clip in a similar style? Write to us in telegram @yourproduction

Moodboard

/ Color palette

Orange
#d49f3f
SCSS
orange

R 212
G 159
B 63

Fire of Perun

Beige
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SCSS
beige

R 113
G 59
B 23

A piece of land

Grey
#5a5f65
SCSS
grey

R 90
G 95
B 101

Cool gray

Green
#4D5D49
SCSS
green

R 77
G 93
B 73

Dull green

In this music video, color grading served the purpose of bringing the colors closer to warm brown, beige, and orange. Gray-green and gray-blue colors worked in contrast with them. After clearing the image of noise, it became soft, but additional softening was applied on top.

They decided to abandon grain and distortion, since the clip was shot using Cooke Anamorphic series optics, which gives a soft-edged image and unique bokeh.

⬤ 03. Equipment

Fantasy folk music video was shot on ARRI Alexa SXT with Cooke Anamorphic 2x.

The fantasy folk music video was filmed over two days continuously near Minsk. The team collected the equipment and went to the location, assembled the equipment in a couple of hours, prepared the actors and began filming. Scenes included day, night and drone shots, as well as live action scenes with a real horse. The animal was brought from the Minsk stables of friezes, which are much larger than an ordinary horse. Moreover, they have an unpredictable character, which is what happened on the set when the horse simply ran away from us.

The ARRI Alexa SXT EV is a great inexpensive cinema camera for medium to large projects. Do you want to rent it? Write to us in chat.
The Cooke Anamorphic/i SF 25mm T2.3 is an excellent anamorphic lens with legendary soft bokeh. Covers the Super 35 matrix. The lens is suitable for an unusual advertising project, music video, film where a soft picture is needed. Looking to rent a Cooke lens? Write to us in chat!
Easyrig Vario 5 with Flowcine Sirena has an excellent camera unloading and stabilization system, its flexibility allows you to take it to any project. Get an Easyrig rental. Write to us in chat.

Whole setup

/ Name

Filming
equipment

/ 00 – 1

Cameras.
ARRI Alexa SXT

/ 00 – 2

Lenses.
Cooke Anamorphic/i FF 40, 75mm 1.8x F2.3

/ 00 – 3

Monitors, recorders.
SmallHD Cine7

Lighting
equipment

/ 00 – 4

Halogen fixtures.

/ 00 – 5

LED fixtures.
Aputure 300d, Fresnel 2X

Sound recording
equipment

/ 00 – 6

Recorders.

/ 00 – 7

Microphones.

Rig, stubs, copters
and action cameras

/ 00 – 8

Stabilizers.
EasyRig Sirena

/ 00 – 9

Copters.
DJI Inspire 2

The dream Team

Direction

— Nadya Kalach
director &
producer

— Alex Aleinikov
DOP &
1AD

Lighting

— Vasya Khvalyuk
lighting dir. &
gaffer

Camera dept.

— Vitaly Mazepin
1AC /
focus puller

— Dima Stelmakh
2AC &
copter

Management

— Vasya Nikitik
line producer &
site director

Creative

— Volodya Kalach
production-designer

— Nadya Kalach
creative &
script

— Nastya Sadovnikova
makeup

Post

— Igor Kuzavka
color
correction

Actors

— Vasya Kalach
first hero

— Victor Kalach
second hero

— Tina Kalach
third hero

— Valery Kalach
4th hero

— Volodya Kalach
5th hero

— Nadya Kalach
6th hero

Festivals and awards

Not­yet­received
Oct 20, 2020

But­we­really­want
Sep 25, 2020

At­least­one
Sep 23, 2020

Opinion from outside

Beautiful clip

“Excellent work by the cameraman and artist. The team created interesting images and the picture turned out beautiful. My rental company provided a set of equipment for filming at the request of Sasha Aleynikov, Cooke lenses and an ARRI camera. I think he succeeded.”

Sergey Yakubovsky

Director · First Rental™

I love clips like this

“I also like to shoot historical videos, like Sasha did. We already filmed a similar video together once. It’s as if you are immersed in that time and begin to live with your characters, you begin to be interested in history. There should be more clips like this.”

Artyom Lobach

Director

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