These were taken by Jonathan from Hot Metal Studio for a behind-the-scenes type of story run for Noisecreep, for The Devil Wears Prada’s “Assistant to the Regional Manager” track. It was filmed by Danny Yourd (he had an official crew at the time; sorry, forget the name) at 31st Street Studios in the dead of winter of 2010, which is why everyone was bundled up. I don’t care for photos of myself, but Jonathan and Co. do a good job, and I wanted to get these off my external drive.
Here’s the story:”Behind the Scenes at the Devil Wears Prada’s ‘Almost Shocking’ Video Shoot”
The actual video: The Devil Wears Prada – Assistant To The Regional Manager [OFFICIAL VIDEO]
I used an actual handheld notebook for notes because I only had a flip phone at the time, but I ended using the phone to text myself things when I ran out of paper:
In the women’s bathroom as the crew were doing makeup on one of the talents. This wasn’t posed, but it looks it:
I was talking to one of the crew members here because they were using an unusual camera set up to get overhead shots of the band members. Shout out to Donut Connection:
Talking to Mike from the band about the video concept and lyrics. He was a good interview:
Drinking water progression:
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Interesting. You did well in front of the camera. I’ve never been in a position to have that much lens time; that’s the kind of photography that captures something typical random shots don’t.
I have a similar hat. Must be a writer thing! 😀
Super cool that you were involved in this way for a metalcore classic. I was jamming to “Dear Love” this summer, and I like it now more than I ever have.
Oh, the good ol’ days of Christian metalcore…
That particular hat kicked the bucket recently, after maybe a good 17/18 year run. I bought a new one just like it.
I didn’t get too much into TDWP, except for the Zombie EP. That is great, beginning to end.
Thankfully, most of the shots Jon did were of the actual process, not me. We did the band performances, which took 8 hours. I wanted to stay for the the two performance artists’ work, since I’ve never seen how those are directed and filmed, but we had to jet.