South Central – Castle of Heroes

admin — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 15:00:26 +0000

South Central – ‘Castle of Heroes’ – Director Steve Glashier

We’d become ground down by the pitching for videos, so this was something of a reaction against that process. When we started making videos, the treatments would take up four colour printed pages with diagrams and storyboards. After eighteen months, we were just typing a paragraph. By the time we pitched for this it was literally just an email saying ‘yeah we’ll do it, but only if we’re allowed complete creative control.’ They said “do what you like” so that’s exactly what we did. We decided to get everything we like; naked chicks, Elvis impersonators, drugs, guns, magicians, and film it all, mostly in the name of having a good day out more than anything else. South Central didn’t want anything to do with it, so we shot it all from the point of view from the Directors. A lot of people think the two guys on the sofa are the band and that we really did have that kind of a budget, but a lot of people are fucking idiots. It was a piece of piss to film, although getting the gunshot right was very time consuming; I think it works really well, and aside form the effects, a lot of that’s down to Jolie’s fall. We watched the life literally drop out of her as she hit the deck.

South Central – Golden Dawn

admin — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 12:19:14 +0000

South Central – ‘Golden Dawn’ – Director Steve Glashier

The idea for this had been knocking around for a while, but none of us thought we’d be able to sustain it over a whole video. We teamed up with Grafik Warfare for some tests and it looked really good: all kinds of torches, light sabres, lasers, taped up to break up the light and make it a bit more dynamic, and shot it all on a stills camera with a long exposure. For the video itself, we must have taken thousands of stills in the freezing cold rain. Each time Fash had to give a three second count in, the camera took the shot everyone would move as instructed: it was gruelling, really fucking gruelling. After hours of it you just became dead to the ‘1… 2… 3… Click’. It didn’t come out exactly as we’d planned, mostly because of time and money once again, but it looks good and it certainly doesn’t look like any other video out there. This will most likely be the last video I ever make.

STEVE GLASHIER» South Central

South Central – Castle of Heroes