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The music video for the song "Alibi", performed by the indie art-pop band HIJK. Go to their site hijkmusic.com to learn more about the band and download some of their songs for free (including "Alibi").

Shot with the Canon HV20 in PF24/Cinemode/Neutral color. Other tools used: two 500Watt lights, the WD-H43 wide angle adapter, a steady-cam, and a tripod. Pulldown removed with Cineform, editing was done with Sony Vegas 8 Pro, color grading with Magic Bullet.

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  • Miltos Pilalitos plus 1 year ago
    Nice video and cool song!

    Since i see that you are continuously moving towards pro-land i would like to suggest you to put a light in your to-purchase-list. Some basic key and fill will add a lot in interiors.

    Keep it up! :)

    EDIT: Oops! I just read that you used 2 500W lights! Wow! where did you hid them? ;-)
  • Eugenia Loli-Queru plus 1 year ago
    Thanks for the comment Milto! The lights were left and right from the band. The original footage was well lit, but I graded it darker in order to change the mood in the video. I explain a lot of how I did everything here: osnews.com/story/19767/
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  • Ivan 1 year ago
    I like it a lot. Good editing, continuity must be very hard to achieve. You could have added some close-ups of their gear (guitar strings, amp buttons etc) I like the contrast between the slomo sections and fast sections. Is kind of funny.
  • Eugenia Loli-Queru plus 1 year ago
    Thanks Ivan. And good idea on the close ups on the instruments.
  • Ivan 1 year ago
    After watching it again, I think you 've deserved a little present: buy yourself a letus extreme adaptor! It'll crank yourself up to the Pro level, and I'm not talking about Vegas now! What can I do more to convince you? Good job, Eugenia!
  • Eugenia Loli-Queru plus 1 year ago
    Thanks Ivan! :)
    I actually have one on pre-order for almost a month now, but not sure when I am going to get it as the person who makes them by hand is currently busy with life. :)
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  • Rick Horton 1 year ago
    Hi Ms. Quero.
    Thank you for the video. Tell me about how you aimed your lights. I'm learning about lighting...
  • Eugenia Loli-Queru plus 1 year ago
    Just left and right of the band, high enough, aiming towards the center of the band.
  • Rick Horton 1 year ago
    My wife whom is a really brilliant photographer showed me that if you point the lights at the ceiling it looks much more even and vivid. BUT, if you do that you also must use very small lights in addition ( like 150 watt ) to aim from a distance at each persons face so you still get nice EYES in the shot. I used to blaze lights at the subjects too, but it's not as beautiful that way. Remember to try and angle the lights pointed at the ceiling so the light falls down over the band, or person, and also to keep the light within about 3 feet of the ceiling pointing up at it. Nice and close to keep the falling light nice and bright. 500 watt lights are plenty for that so you will be set. I use a few 650 for my room lights ( ceiling ) and bounce board lights. For all of the fill lights I use 150 watters from at least 7 feet away to prevent hot spots. For the ceiling lights, barn doors are great to keep the bright light off of the wall and only on the ceiling so it doesn't become a dead give away whats going on. Thought I'd help since you help so much. Cheerio !!
  • Eugenia Loli-Queru plus 1 year ago
    Thanks, I will take this into account for the next time. This time there was simply no way to move lights far away or re-arrange them, the studio was small.
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  • [ PIXEL VIKING ] plus 1 year ago
    Not the most exciting location (was there a choice?), then again, I don't really watch a lot of music videos anymore. Maybe this is the latest craze... :)


    I can imagine why they where sweating, knowing you had a 1000 watts in there... :)
  • Eugenia Loli-Queru plus 1 year ago
    No, not much of a choice for the location. We did the best we could with what we had. :)

    It was hot in there. :)
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  • jeff 1 year ago
    Aside from the near perfect technicals of the film, If you had more time maybe you could have had them act out scenes to match the message of the song whatever that might be. I'm curious if they were performing in front of a large audience would they dress in white tees and plain black shirts. Maybe next time find someone to help with set design and fashion.
  • Eugenia Loli-Queru plus 1 year ago
    They actually had with them 2 t-shirts each, I had requested that. But it was so hot in there, and they were dripping sweat for playing the song at 125% faster, that I am not sure it would have been a good idea to change suits all the time. We all needed a good bath after the shooting. :)

    As for acting on the song, we had discussed the possibility, but the band didn't want to give a wrong impression that e.g. a band member did something bad and needed an alibi.
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  • Remyyy plus 1 year ago
    Love the shots with the man first singing (on the left). I'd like to try to do this. I'm sure it's hard to do considering you can't ask them to play over and over the song, you can't choose the place,....
  • Eugenia Loli-Queru plus 1 year ago
    Actually, as a director, you can ask them. It takes quite a few takes to get enough footage to edit it properly. I detailed everything here btw: osnews.com/story/19767/
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  • Hook Recordings 1 year ago
    Eugenia, great stuff for sure.

    I was wondering what you meant by this

    "playing the song at 125% faster"

    Well I understand what you mean but I cant see where you have slowed down the video. But I must be picking you up wrong.

    How long did this take you all together as in the filming and editing.
  • Eugenia Loli-Queru plus 1 year ago
    Hi, I explain here: eugenia.gnomefiles.org/2008/04/01/the-trick-with-music-video-clips/
    and also check out the OSNews link I link on the comments above. I explain everything there. The video you just saw was slowed down btw, you just didn't realize it. :)
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  • Hook Recordings 1 year ago
    {update}
    A quick visit to the bands website revealed how long the filming and editing took. So now its just matter of clearing up that other pesky query..
  • Eugenia Loli-Queru plus 1 year ago
    Actually, the shooting took only 2 hours. We left home with my husband at 2 PM on Saturday, arrived there at 3 PM, shot until 5 PM, and by 6 PM we were back home. :)

    I spent about 15 hours editing overall, in the span of 2 days.
  • Hook Recordings 1 year ago
    Aah, I was about to update and mention that I had clicked your links and found the answer in your rather tasty article. Well well well, I just didn't realise the footage was slowed down at all. So I guess that would mean mission accomplished..
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  • John Painter plus 1 year ago
    Like MTV was back in that summer of '81 (now it's mostly over worked), sweet. Great band and now great music vid!
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  • Very cool Eugenia!!! I was wondering what you've been up to. I'd checked, but no vids lately. I was also wondering how long it took to shoot & edit, but I see from above that I can check their site (I think). There is a local band here that wants a simple vid, but I don't think I'm quite up to it yet. Again, NICE! So you broke down and got Pro huh?
  • Eugenia Loli-Queru plus 1 year ago
    Me, pro? Naaah. I am just helping out indie bands. Possibly I didn't have enough of a groupie life as a teenager so I compensate now at 34. :)
  • Hell, you've been a pro! I was speaking of Vegas Pro. And how much of a pain was the whole speeding things up deal? I've heard it can be tricky.
  • Eugenia Loli-Queru plus 1 year ago
    Ah, yeah, I am using Pro since last August, pretty much just a month after starting using Vegas altogether. Yes, syncing the video back to the music is tricky.
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  • Glenn (avene.org) 1 year ago
    Very nicely done!

    If anything, I did notice a bit of frame blending. Possibly from the 125% speed increase? I'm sure this would work fine going from 30P to 24P though if you were using a HV30.
  • Eugenia Loli-Queru plus 1 year ago
    Yup, from 30p to 24p it would have worked without these artifacts, but the HV20 doesn't do 30p and I didn't wanna shoot the very video-like 60i. I tried to disable resample on Vegas too, which usually takes care of these problems, but it didn't help.
  • Xerxes Sangco 1 year ago
    What would I be sacrificing if I were to convert 60i to 30 or 24p in post? I've tried this once but never really noticed the difference between just shooting in 24p or converting 60i to 24p.
  • Eugenia Loli-Queru plus 1 year ago
    There is a difference. 60i looks like video, no matter what. The shutter speed is different etc.
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  • Brian Boudreau 1 year ago
    Very Nicely done Eugenia
  • Eugenia Loli-Queru plus 1 year ago
    Thanks Brian, appreciated!
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  • Manuel Alducin 1 year ago
    Wow I liked it, the "stopmo" bits reminded me of old school videos. From the description of your articles seems you didn'thave many setups for the shots. Any chance about more details on the color correction (having MB on top of the Vegas 3-way CC)?
  • Eugenia Loli-Queru plus 1 year ago
    I used the following for the studio shots, in this order:
    3-way CC with the lows wheel towards blue, mids towards yellow, and highs towards green. Saturation to 1500, gamma to 0.750. Magic Bullet with the Sepia Red template, but with pre-saturation to -70 instead of -100. Finally, Unsharpen mask at 0.250 and radius at 0.100.
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  • Linda McClure plus 1 year ago
    Fantastic!
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  • Simon Vannarath 1 year ago
    Hey! I'm liking it a lot!
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  • Racer-X 1 year ago
    Excellent Job. I really liked it. Both the execution and the post editing. Oh, and the song was good to....

    You are a Pro Eugenia.
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  • Ayz Waraich 1 year ago
    very cool eugenia.

    just a note -- this could've used higher shutter speeds though. A lot of motion blur which makes it smack of video. Other than that it looks nice.
  • Eugenia Loli-Queru plus 1 year ago
    Thanks. It wasn't the shutter speed to blame, it was the frame rate. You see, on post, I had to take the 24p video and make it 18p (because I needed to sync the audio at 25% slower rate) and then resample it back up to 24p. This added the blur.

    To avoid that, I needed an HV30 with its 30p support.
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  • Honolulu Video 1 year ago
    Egads! For what you had to work with and the
    short editing and acquisition time, that was
    t-riff. I liked the simplicity of a "garage band"
    earthiness expressed in the low key color
    and loose funky dress down wear. The brief
    effects refreshed my eyeballs and I even dug the
    "breaking of the rules" regarding "looking space"
    in the CU of the
    guitarist's singing shot.
    All in all sweet and inspiring to take my new
    HV20 more seriously.
    need for "looking room."
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  • michael langridge 1 year ago
    I like your work, all of it, your enjoyment comes through.
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  • Dang look at you go, making music videos. :-) This looks real nice; but I guess I wouldn't expect anything less from you.

    Will you be doing more music videos?
  • Eugenia Loli-Queru plus 1 year ago
    Thank you Karen! Much appreciated! :)
    Yes, I am hoping to make more of them, I have 2-3 Bay Area bands in mind so far...
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  • Ronnie Silos 1 year ago
    Wow! This is the most inspiring video! Did you come in there with a plan? 2 hours was not much time and what you have here is amazing! Oh man, hands on a 35mm adapter - I just don't know how much more to rate you. I already gave this a 10.
    Ronnie
  • Eugenia Loli-Queru plus 1 year ago
    Hi, thanks. No, there was no major plan, as I had not seen the place we would shoot at all. We were making it up as we were going. I didn't use a 35mm adapter btw, but I have one on order.
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  • Kevhead101 1 year ago
    Absolutely fabulous as always!!! It is people like you who makes me want to do this!!!!!
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  • fotofreak99 1 year ago
    Very well done. I like it a lot.
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  • RogerB1 plus 1 year ago
    Another wonderful film. You have real talent. I really appreciate your work. I save your films.
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  • monso 1 year ago
    great video.wow
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  • AbOwLoFsUnShInE! 1 year ago
    brilliant video!
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  • AVCHD User 1 year ago
    Two guys on guitars, one on drums, who's playing the keyboards or was it prerecorded?
  • Eugenia Loli-Queru plus 1 year ago
    Of course and it was pre-recorded. That's how most video clips are shot. :)
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  • Paul Tarlevs 1 year ago
    What rendering settings are you using?
  • Eugenia Loli-Queru plus 1 year ago
    The same as in my tutorial, linked by Vimeo's tech-help forum.
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  • jazz c 1 year ago
    weirdest lyrics.
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  • Larry Czach 11 months ago
    Love that song. Thanks for posting.
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  • miles maxwell 10 months ago
    heyo, I stumbled onto this post after reading your vegas to vimeo tutorial from 07. Very well done video, to my untrained video watching eyes. Thanks for posting and thanks for writing that tutorial as well.
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  • matthew earl nelson II 10 months ago
    band kicks ass. so does the drummer. i like the split vocals between the two guitarists. i noticed that the footage was recorded then slo-mo'd immediately from the way the singers hair moved. that makes all the difference in a style of music like this. great work like always.
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  • David Vestnes 9 months ago
    Hi Eugenia
    You probely got your Letus Exstrem adapter bu now ?
    I thought aboute geting one too untill I saw a music video done with Canon HV 30 and it hade the Lotus adapter focus" look " to it bigtime,but the maker of the video said that he didnt use an apapter (people didnt believe him because it really had the adapter look) But he said that when he filmed, he backed up as fare as he could from the subject(band) and then zoomed all the way in and he got the Adapter look ! I tryed the trick and it works great on my Canon HV 30 plus it is easyer to focus then with a Letus . I saved myself alot of money
    Dave God Bless
  • Hata Proof Films plus 9 months ago
    David, that is a nifty trick, although you will outgrow it soon. It is very hard to acomplish shallow DOF in tight spaces where there is no room to work with between camera talent & background. An adapter also has the advantage of changing lenses for focal length with out distorition

    And Eugenia, may I suggest a back light?

    Are you using tungsten work lights? I would place one behind the talent at a 45˚ angle, one in front a of the talent at a 45˚ as a key, and a car windshield shade as a reflector as a fill.
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  • Hata Proof Films plus 9 months ago
    LOL i have the exact same reflector. Ok try geocities.com/iconostar/three-point.jpg

    with fill = reflector
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  • Hata Proof Films plus 9 months ago
    It will make the subject pop out from the background
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  • Jay~CKY 9 months ago
    love this band
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  • Disdausdebil 7 months ago
    really good song! like it really much! cc is perfect too but i don't like the cinematopraphy.. some camera movments would definitely help. the picture is looking very rich but the cuts and the ideas are sloppy,..
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  • Habit:bmx 7 months ago
    love it. lets see more music vids from you. you have a great talent for it.
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