Annie / Mad Men BTS Video
[UPDATE: Even though the "autoStart" tag in the embedded video is set to "false," the vid seems to be auto-starting anyway. Apologies to the clandestine viewers locked in their cubicles. I am placing the video and the rest of the post behind a "read more" jump to give you a chance to turn the sound down.
Any further flash coding tech help mucho appreciated!]
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If you saw Vanity Fair's Mad Men spread in the current issue, here's a quick behind-the-scenes video of Annie Leibovitz shooting it. (After the obligatory pre-roll ad, of course.)
Just a little bit of lighting seen in this one, and she's mostly aping ambient with the Photek Soft-Liter and a voice-activated boom again. Balance-wise, she is more fine-tuning the quality of the ambient than overpowering it. And the result is both subtle and beautiful.
As for your Labor Day weekend, rest assured it is probably more relaxing than Annie's. She has a $24,000,000.00 debt payment due Tuesday. I'd roll that baby forward to a new Southwest Airlines Rapid Rewards card and fly free for-EVER.
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[UPDATE: Oops. Annie's weekend just got worse...]
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(Thanks to Sean for the tip.)
Any further flash coding tech help mucho appreciated!]
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If you saw Vanity Fair's Mad Men spread in the current issue, here's a quick behind-the-scenes video of Annie Leibovitz shooting it. (After the obligatory pre-roll ad, of course.)
Just a little bit of lighting seen in this one, and she's mostly aping ambient with the Photek Soft-Liter and a voice-activated boom again. Balance-wise, she is more fine-tuning the quality of the ambient than overpowering it. And the result is both subtle and beautiful.
As for your Labor Day weekend, rest assured it is probably more relaxing than Annie's. She has a $24,000,000.00 debt payment due Tuesday. I'd roll that baby forward to a new Southwest Airlines Rapid Rewards card and fly free for-EVER.
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[UPDATE: Oops. Annie's weekend just got worse...]
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(Thanks to Sean for the tip.)
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I'm curious, is it really a softliter? or is there a higher end equivalent that she's using? I'd like to see the quality difference of something made by Broncolor or one of the other high end manufacturers.
Thanks for sharing this! I'm sorta surprised to see Annie using nothing other than a softlighter but I have seen her use that setup before in other shoots. She definitely knows how to blend that ambient and strobe.
Hope her little ordeal goes well for her. I know there's a lot of animosity towards her and her money mgmt skills, ...but I still like her work and hate to see anyone get reamed so hard.
I always love watching the BTS videos at Vanity Fair. Thanks for posting this Mad Men session!
It's nice to see Annie doing some fresh work.
That shoot with Sean Connery was a little on the boring side, it looked sweet as hell though.
It's a bit amazing that someone as good as Annie has fallen so hard on the times. Hopefully it inspires her to keep working.
Very interesting vid. Lots of Edward Hopper and David Hockney going on here. ;-)
so lovely!
Oh, you are wicked, you are !
Nice post. And thanks to Sean for the tip. :-)
I'm not going to shed any tears for Annie though..she has not "fallen on hard times." She's seems she's not controlling the business side as she should, and if she's passing off others work as her own, there's no sympathy here. Tsk tsk.
Thanks for the post. I love that show. It's nice to see the people behind the scenes work.
Hey, at least she's getting work right?
Fallen on hard times? You don't just get to the point she's at overnight. I don't feel bad for her at all, she obviously has been making bad choices for awhile..
It's like a pro athlete who files for bankruptcy after years of multi million dollar contracts.
It sucks, but she's had it coming.
She may have made poor business decisions, and will lose the collateral that she put up as a result.
But what really sucks is that she will lose the rights to all her future work, as well.
She might as well hang up her camera, and never take another shot.
Reminds me of the debtor's prisons that "Jolly Old England" used to have.
She may have made poor business decisions, and will lose the collateral that she put up as a result.
But what really sucks is that she will lose the rights to all her future work, as well.
She might as well hang up her camera, and never take another shot.
Reminds me of the debtor's prisons that "Jolly Old England" used to have.
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Good for you, Dave. Thanks for putting this vid on your blog site. I like Ms Leibovitz. I like her not because she's a famous photog and we 'should' like her; not because of the acclaim given to her work; not because she's quirky; but because she's doing it. She's working and working hard. In fact, from what little I know of her, she's always been a driven worker dedicated to her craft. That's something to admire. Even more so when the hounds are nipping at her heels and her peers are 'crying no tears'.
Keep it up Annie. (And you too Dave).
Good for you, Dave. Thanks for putting this vid on your blog site. I like Ms Leibovitz. I like her not because she's a famous photog and we 'should' like her; not because of the acclaim given to her work; not because she's quirky; but because she's doing it. She's working and working hard. In fact, from what little I know of her, she's always been a driven worker dedicated to her craft. That's something to admire. Even more so when the hounds are nipping at her heels and her peers are 'crying no tears'.
Keep it up Annie. (And you too Dave).
Nice to see natural looking lighting. It's harder to do something like this than the "Hey look-at-me I'm using flash" style that seems to be popular now.
Remember, always use the right tool for the job. Looks like the Softliter was the right tool for this job.
always a great site here...lots of compassion here for annie too....yeah, right....she may not know how to manage her money but she knows how to shoot...btw...can anyone tell me the name of the music and who's doing it...thanks..rr
I won't be surprised if that new lawsuit falls apart once a "work for hire contract" falls out of the woodwork.
And yes it is a Photek Softlighter she is using she's been using one for a while. If you notice too she is very careful not to have the logo show the way she does with her Profoto gear. -- just goes to show it is not the tools that make the difference. it is the full ball of wax: the production values, especially and the retouching.
Copyright and US copyright registration are extremely important regarding a photographer's work. Annie understood that, but unfortunately other bad business decisions might cost her her intellectual property.
I realize that most of us, including myself, are not in her category, but that doesn't excuse not protecting our photographs.
I love the way she shoots
Sorry for the offtopic, but an autoplay video with sound considered a bad taste among bloggers. Many of us watch your blog from offices and this can seriously affect the readers...
@Tsukasa-
Odd. The autoStart tag in the video code is set to "false". I stuck it behind a jump wall until I can figure it out.
Thx,
D
p.s. Get back to work.
Dave, I've been told that the flv software that encoded the video determines if it autostarts or not, not any external codes like in a URL.
For example, I wanted the videos I listed here to start when someone clicked on the page. They all started at the same time automatically, so it was a cluster----, and I had to link to them rather than embed them.
By the way, what is a jump wall? A protective mesh wall surrounding a trampoline?
Love the images when viewed on screen. To my eyes, do to the quality of the paper in the magazine the images come off as too muddy.
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