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Heather Leigh West Music Video

Challenge:
Produce a music video for promotional purposes within 1 week.

Solution:
Film a live performance; choose the footage from the best song performed; schedule a 4 hour, 1 location shoot date to fill out the footage; edit together, master, and deliver.

Results:
A music video that looks like a million bucks, that has proven to be a very effective promotional tool; Request from the client to produce additional web site content.

Technology:
The video was shot on a Canon GL1 DV camera, edited and filtered in Final Cut Pro, with additional effects in After Effects, and distributed on DVD and on the web using advanced Sorenson 2 pass codec for Flash and Quicktime. This is truly functional design for dynamic media.

Video credits:

  • Direction, camera, editing, effects — Dustin Young
  • Staring — Heathter Leigh West — 917.435.1084, hlw@heatherleighwest.com
  • Hair and Makeup — Jospeh Quijano — 212.288.8615, JoeRQ@aol.com

Music credits:

  • "The Best Thing" © 2003, featuring Heather Leigh West
  • Written by — AJ Russ (PRS), K.H. Evans (PRS), and Heather Leigh West (BMI)

This video requires Apple Quicktime.