2 Chainz and I have been a zone lately, here is a behind the scenes look at the latest visual we worked on, Turn Up, featuring his artist Cap 1. Lookout for the Under Statement video dropping this month.
4eva Na Day
May 1st, 2012
Big K.R.I.T. is by far one of my favorite new artist, and it was great experience to work with him on this visual. Being that this song was the title track from his latest project, 4eva Na Day, I took inspiration from the cover artwork, and put it in motion. I worked along side a very talented swedish based multidisciplinary artist, Greg Solenström, who did an amazing job. He illustrated everything from scratch before putting graphics in motion, the process took over 3 weeks. It was a very different video to shoot. On set, I really had to use my imagination, I had some actions I knew I wanted Krit do, but some things were just naturally improv’d during the takes, and worked out great in the edit. I’m really happy with what we were able to accomplish and pretty proud of this one.
Damn Right I Got It.
April 9th, 2012
I have to say this is probably my favorite video to date – not to mention we had a lot of fun shooting it. Playing with fire is always tricky as far as getting the right exposure; shooting on the RED EPIC and utilizing the HDR function really helped us get the best looking image. The video is very dark and gritty, yet still clean which can be hard to pull off. I thought about adding some grain to dirty it up, but I’ll wait until I get the budget to shoot on film and just do it in camera. All effects in this video were done in camera and recently, I’ve become a big fan of that. I feel you get the most authentic results, which can’t be pulled off by purchasing some plugin. It really gives your visual a one of a kind feel.
This is 2 Chainz’s first single from his debut album Based On A T.R.U. Story. It’s really cool to be apart of 2 Chainz first big project. He’ll be walking this video on 106 and Park for its premiere for the first time in his career. Thanks to my entire crew and everyone who helped me execute this video. We also just wrapped Unda Statement which is in the post process right now, so be on the lookout for that soon.
-DD
RapFix
March 27th, 2012
MTV documented my latest collaboration with 2 Chainz for his 1st single off his debut album titled Based On A T.R.U. Story.
#4evaNaDay
March 2nd, 2012
I got the opportunity and privilege to shoot the title track off Big K.R.I.T.‘s up and coming project. The treatment is something new for the both of us so it will be exciting to share. Here are some behind the scenes images from the shoot. Get #4evaNaDay on March 5th via Livemixtapes.com
