We Were Once A Fairy Tale

"We Were Once A Fairytale" - Kanye West Dir: Spike Jonze from Yooj‽ - Recording Live From No on Vimeo.

Now I have to see "Where The Wild Things Are" and everything else Spike Jonze.

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Casey Veggies "It's All Good"

The music video is finally out!

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Casey Veggies's Debut Music Video

The shoot went really well, I had some fun. I had worked with Casey only once on the trailer I did for him a few months back but we had only spoken for a little bit then. This time I spent the whole day with him. He and his crew over at Peas & Carrots are really dope people.

In the morning we shot at Kenneth Hahn Park to shoot the beginning of the music video, which will be this stylized intro that is a sort of extension of what we did in the trailer. Actually, my day started out a little earlier than that. I realized in the very early morning before the shoot that I didn't have the lyrics to the song so I went to his myspace, listened to it and jotted down what I thought the lyrics were so when I got to the park the first thing I did was hand off what I wrote and Casey corrected it. I'm proud to say I got most of it right :-D!

The shoot at Kenneth Hahn went really smooth and fast. We only spent an hour shooting there and then we left to hit up Kingsbury where the majority of the video would be shot. After a quick bite I spent a good half hour looking for parking because we could only get meter parking. But then we came to realize we could have parked in the back of Kingsbury all along, that was a big waste of time. Once we finally got things settled we started shooting (sorry for the lack of photos, there may be some later on the Peas & Carrot blog).

I really like shooting and directing music videos, sometimes even moreso than shooting short films. Actually, I think what I like about music videos is that it's someone elses art that I get to make visual. I'm not sure if I find as much enjoyment in writing my own work and then directing it, rather, I like adapting other people's work and then directing it (like most directors). While this video is actually going to be somewhat simple, with other videos and can really step out creatively.

I really enjoy the song we're doing, it's got a really laid back flow and I think it's a good way to debut Casey's second mixtape and first official music video.

We're trying to go live with this video next Sunday. Whoopi should be editing but I may end up doing a bit of editing too.


I'll try to actually keep up with my blog so I can keep my readers update (I know I have a few out there :-P)

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Oh also, after the shoot day was over I got my first flat tire! How fun! AAA actually came pretty quickly so it wasn't so bad. I'm slowly realizing how much money it'll be just to maintain my car. I had to fix my brakes last week ... get a tune up the other day ... and now I need a new tire. Good thing I have a summer job now :-D!

Can't Take It - Music Video

This is a music video I edited. I've been working on it for the pass few weeks and finally I've got the go to release.

Can't Take It from Antoine Bandele on Vimeo.

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I WON THE COPYRIGHT CLAIM!

To my "And He Gets The Girl" music video! A few weeks ago my video got taken off of YouTube due to copyright claims by the Warner Music Group. Yesterday, I filed a claim that it was protected by the fair use clause of 1976 and I won! It's back on YouTube for all to see again!


I fought the YouTube law and I won!

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YouTube + And He Gets The Girl + My Video = Almost off YouTube!?

I think it's inevitable. My "And He Gets The Girl" music video might be taken off of YouTube soon. Almost all the other videos have been taken off except for two and the newer ones. Now I'm on the top of the list with the most views. Eek! But I think I know why mine is still on YouTube. When the copyright owners look for things with their music they only listen for the first ten or twenty seconds. I don't think the music comes in until thirty seconds in (UPDATE: it starts at 0:44). I have my opening title and the opening sequence.



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Let's pray it won't get taken down :(

My First Fan Girl?

The Message:

Hey..i know this is really random...but i looooooooooved you "...And He Gets The Girl Video" I love it so much because its one of my fav songs by Lupe....I'm a Lupe Fiasco fan...lol... But yeah i really like your work... Keep up the great work...

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Casey Veggies Customized Greatly Vol. 2 Trailer

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Take On Me: Literal Video Version :-D

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Casey Veggies Mixtape Trailer Preview

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10,000 Views, Four Months

It's been four months since I published And He Gets The Girl! It's finally peaked at 10,0000 views on YouTube!


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Behind the Scenes - Paris, Toyko

Lupe is a smart guy but sometimes he sounds so dumb when he speaks

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Best Music Video @ The 3rd Annual Santa Monica Teen Film Festival!

Yes! Finally some recognition! I won "Best Music Video" at the 3rd Annual Santa Monica Teen Film Festival. Whoopi and I should have snagged at least one award last year for Whoopi vs. SilentBat but hey, what are you going to do? The audience choice awards was super biased and the judges just didn't think it deserved anything. Anywho, I competed, at first, with seventy other films which got weeded down to twenty films, nine of them, including mine, being music video. And of the other eight music videos I won first place for Antoine Bandele's And He Gets The Girl. I almost thought I lost it to another video called Remeberance though because last year, I believe, some of the videos won just because they had a sap story and this one was a sad story and was really good on top of that. Everytime a music video came up I would think to myself "I hope this one is bad and if it is good I hope I could be proud to lose to it." I felt that way with Remeberance. I would legitamely say I would have been proud to lose to it if I did ... but good thing I didn't! Yay!

So what did I get? Well as you can see above and below I got a trophy and with it I got four movie tickets to a Landmark Theater (I already know where I'm going to use the tickets for and for whom. I owe someone and I think I'll take her friends too) :). Along with the trophy and tickets I got a Best Buy gift certificate worth $200. So pretty much, that means I'm getting a new external harddrive that's firewire-ready. I was thinking about the one you see to your right. It's the Iomega - Minimax 500 GB. But that's just from a first look, I may by a drive from a name brand I'm more familiar with!

Well anyway that's it! Tomorrow is my CSI Editing visit :-D!


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Back to Third

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Black Kids - Hurrican Jane

Disappointed majorly:


That video had NOTHING to do with the song. Why the heck was he running through pyramids. Where was Hurricane Jane? There wasn't even a personification of Hurricane Jane. I'm disappointed. They could have done much more creatively.

If you just want to gouge your eyes after that watch this instead:



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Lack of Camera is Hurting my Blogging

Here is a photo from senior picnic:

My lack of post, or post about me, is because I have no camera. And I haven't made videoblogs in forever because my computer cannot capture footage. But videoblogs should return sometime next month when I get my graduation present: a MacBook Pro :). I even think the first moment I get it and I figure out how to make videos on it through PhotoBooth I'll post v videoblog #32 or #33, whichever one it is. And I'll try and make videoblogs as much as I can instead of splitting it in two weeks so I can catch up.

UPDATE:

Holy Macaroni! I'm second on th youtube search!

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Pork & Beans

Ryan and Dorkman make an appearance at the end. Also, this is just a good video :)



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Top 3 on YouTube Search!

Top 3 on the YouTube search for "Antoine Bandele's And He Gets The Girl"


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"If I Never See Your Face Again" ft. Rihanna Music Video

Not too sure Rihanna works for this :(
Acting wise, good chemistry between the two, but Rihanna's voice doesn't work for Maroon 5.



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Say What? Rihanna and Maroon 5?

Believe it.



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