New Music Video for Daniel J.

Hi Everyone,

Here's a little music video I just made for my brother Daniel's new song - it's a song in Hebrew called "מכת המסגרת" (it's kind of untranslatable, but it refers to feeling slammed down by the system, by the man, by the type of life that society forces you to live) - Daniel recorded this song for an uber kick ass rock album he made for the Israeli market, called "A Thousand Walls" (אלף קירות in Hebrew.)

For the video, there was basically almost no budget at all. So the concept, based on that, was to make it all about Daniel's musicality and basically just have it all be a high-energy performance video. Since he plays every instrument in the song himself, as well as having recorded and mixed it, I decided to just shoot many shots of him playing and singing the song in the studio he and his band (Against The Wall) use to rehearse and record, along with a few shots showing him recording the music, and then do a fast, energetic and intense edit.  DP Tony Ditata and myself (and no other crew members) went over to the studio with a 7D and two little lights, and spent the day getting our ears shredded to bits as we shot take after take of Daniel playing the guitar and drums.

My dad brought hummus for lunch, Daniel's friend Boris was on hand for a few hours for moral support, and that was pretty much the crew. Sometimes it's fun to just make something, armed with almost nothing at all but enthusiasm.