I shot a special music video for the NFL on FOX featuring Pentatonix doing their rendition of Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy that will debut on Sunday at Noon Eastern.
We had limited time to shoot with the band, so I maximized the space we had. We shot it at the historic Folly Theater and marked out spots on the stage for the band. We rigged a couple thousand feet of christmas lights behind them and bought a couple 8 foot Christmas trees to go on either side.
We then pre-set for the band to turn around and be back lit by 50 Source 4s programmed into a lighting board doing a rock and roll chase lighting sequence. We brought in a union spotlight operator to rake them with a spot during the sequence and had a lot of fun.
I wore an intercom headset to in communication with the board and spotlight operators while I was shooting.
All in all a fun shoot. The band was one of the nicest and most down to earth I’ve worked with. Hope to do it again some time!
