Click here to read the extended interview.

xoSM

I recently spent a week at Harvard Business School, directing a new recruitment video for their admissions office.  The agency was Mono, the producers were Melody Roscher and Justin Lundstrom, the cinematographer was Ed David, the hotel was DoubleTree, and the time was fun.

All of these photos were shot on 35mm film (except the last one) by the inestimable Kelly Munson, Design Director at Mono.

Harvard is beautiful this time of year.

Ed David is beautiful this time of year.

I spent most of the time yelling into this box.

This was one of our more “high-concept” shots.  The guy in the yellow pants drove a boat when they were shooting the opening sequence of “The River Wild“!  Why is Jack Nicholson standing on the back of the boat?

Trailing one of our subjects, Kelsey, around the campus.

Our last day was back in New York, shooting an HBS alum and one of the founders of Green Irene, PJ Stafford.   As you can see, Ed was shamed into both a haircut and a beardcut.

xoHenry

From an article about stalled building projects in NYC….

There’s an actual article about Rebecca Schiffman, whose video you can see in our “music videos” section.

xoREL

Shooting continues on our series of short films with model trains.

Studiomarché in action.

Andrew blocking a scene.

John Furgason:  looming, brooding.

Cheeze-Its have dominated on-set snacking.  We snack hard.

xoHenry

(photos by Nanoosh)

Yesterday we shot at Northlandz, the largest model train museum in the North America.

John and his art team dress the city set.

It was our first shoot using the RED camera, courtesy of Atomix.

This shot was inspired by something I grabbed with my Canon TX1 (which is the size of a deck of cards) on our first scout.  Isn’t it amazing what it takes to recreate that?  We’ll see whose version is better.

Every single one of the 100+ trains at Northlandz can be controlled from this room.

B-Unit out on Rogue Mission #3.  This mission was highly secretive.

The brave director retrieves a stalled train.  One misstep would have sent him plummeting thousands of feet to his death.

Today we’re shooting across the street at a studio, a.k.a. Studiomarché.

xoSM

Everybody in the office stood up.

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One of our favorite music bloggers, Dan Beirne, over at one of our favorite music blogs, Said the Gramophone, wrote a very kind note about some of our recent work.

Read the blog : here.

You may remember Dan also wrote about my collaboration with Die Romantik last year.

Also, if you haven’t heard of Said the Gramophone, it’s worth checking everyday.

xoHenry

Last week we art directed a top secret music video for our friends over at Greencard Pictures, produced by our #1 favorite producer Melody Roscher, directed by our British friend Jim Canty.   We can’t give you any hints as to who the artist was except to say that he is so famous they have interns over at the record label trolling the internet to find out if anyone posts photos from the set of his music video before it is released.

Here’s a sweet little bedroom set we designed in the apartment of Jim Barber.

Here’s one of our top 2 favorite A.D.’s in NYC : John Mingalone.

By the end of the day our only responsibility was to keep track of 2 coffee cups.  Good thing we had back-ups.

xoSM