Havikoro is a bboy crew from Houston, Texas. I had an opportunity to film them breakdancing at a local studio here in Houston, Texas. I got a great rate on the studio, I guess that people are so broke, that they are looking to bring in any level of income that they possibly can. Have you ever paid $200 for a photo studio day with a syke before? This wasn't even a personal hook-up, it's a published rate. Gotta love the recession right?
Anyway, all of my directing was technical on this day, just lighting and filming. Director Mario Jamarillo, who is the talented leader of Havikoro was great to work with. (I don't know if that's official, but he did all the creative organization for the group.) Mario is multi-talented. He doesn't just breakdance, and dance to house music, but he is a graphic designer and editor. Mario is creating this video for the Havikoro 10th anniversary party that is coming up in January 2010.
Havikoro is amazing, you can see from their battle videos on youtube, that they are seasoned professionals, acrobatic, highly skilled, and have a great stage presence. There is a Havikoro video that is already online, that I did not film or produce, but you get the point, if you watch it.
As a director, I don't shoot alot of in studio white screen projects, but having the centralized location for all of your talent to show up, can really make life easy sometimes. I really had to guess how much light to bring, and it worked out, but in the future, I might need a few more watts to get it done. I own 3 Arri 1k's. One of my bulbs blew out while we were setting up and I didn't have a replacement on hand. I used the two 1k's i had left to hit the white background. I also have two 300 watt flourescent soft boxes (cl-sft1 daylight) that I got from Cool Lights. The softboxes are handy lights, and are my starter lights. One day, I'd love a couple of Kinoflo Diva', but it's all good, they had some light fill in this situation. I rented two 4x4 Kino's from The Lighting Zone, and was able to get the job done.I filmed the session, 1080/60i on P2 cards with my Panasonic HVX200 without the 35mm adapter.
Everything turned out well, but it sure did take awhile to dump all of that footage. We shot about 60 gb's before all of the dancers tired out. All in all, I we got everything we needed, and it was alot of fun. I'm a big fan of bboy events, breakdancing, and popping. I try to incorporate some kind of dancing into my music videos, especially in Hip Hop, because it pays respect to the original Hip Hop foundation: Breakdancing / Bboying, Turntables, Graffiti, Poetry, MC'ing and mentoring. Today, all of the popular "Rap" is drug dealing, blame it on the alcohol crap, that just makes me sick. I'm 35 years old, so I remember when Hip Hop hit the scene as a kid. Going to the bboy events and filming the vibe brings back alot of memories.
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