Monday, May 25, 2009

Music Video Shoot for Bilal Salaam, Decompose/So What

This June we will begin a music video production for...wait, guess who?

Bilal Salaam. The video will be partly animated and part-live action Based on the intro performed by by his group, Op Swamp 81, and the main featured video will be the song "So What."

The video will be a project that includes mentors and students from Bowie State University's Department of Fine Arts (VCDMA) and Communications, and will be shot at a very historic salon in in the H street corridor of Washington, DC, With These Hands Salon, owned by the wonderful Mrs. Betty Hart. It is supported by a Summer Fellows Grant for faculty, sponsored by The Center for Learning & Technology (CTEL) at Bowie State University.

This will truly be a group effort, as I will be assisted by producer Scott Rainey, cinematographer Frank Jackson, Jr., and animator/producer Jabari Hall-Smith. Make-up and talent coordination, Charlene Brown of Sophizticated Ladyz Hair Salon, and Additional video support by Jay Pope of, XDVPros.

Take a look at the storyboards for "So What."

Some conceptual artwork by BSU student interns Stephanie Burgess, Steven Stephenson and Samuel Famoyegun (thank you all, and more to come):










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