SHOT: Four Letter Lie - Endeavor Media, directors

Look for some Ghostbusters action in this video for "Nothing But A Ghost."

artist: Four Letter Lie
song: "Nothing But A Ghost"
label: Victory
director(s): Endeavor Media
production co: Endeavor Media

BOOKED: Secret Lives Of The Freemasons – Don Tyler, director

artist: Secret Lives Of The Freemasons
song: "Life Begins At 40oz. "
label: Victory
director(s): Don Tyler
production co: Red 40 Productions

PHOTO: Bayside and director Josh Horowitz - "Carry On"

Victory band Bayside  and Film Orange director Josh Horowitz (second from left) loom over a miniaturized NYC on the set of "Carry On." (photo by Rich Paprocki)

BOOKED: Bayside - Josh Horowitz, director

artist: Bayside
song: "Carry On"
label: Victory
director(s): Josh Horowitz
production co: Film Orange

SHOT: The Audition - Don Tyler, director

Director Don Tyler and producer Mel Kirk (fourth and fifth from left, respectively) on the appropriately cold set of "Warm Me Up" with The Audition. (click to enlarge)

artist: The Audition
song: "Warm Me Up"
label: Victory
director(s): Don Tyler
production co: Red 40 productions

NEW RELEASE: Thursday "Ladies & Gentlemen..."

Writers Block certainly sucks, but rarely does it cause the kind of damage seen in this video for Thursday. Lead singer Geoff Rickly is dutifully pecking at an antique typewriter when a knock at the door unleashes a distraction that involves a dead bride and some murderous cockroaches. Chaos and destruction ensues, thereby answering the question of what Metamorphosis would have been like if written by William S. Burroughs after a massive insecticide binge. Or more accurately, it's a straight homage to Naked Lunch —  the film version, at least — in terms of drugs, bugs, and dead wives. Speaking of which, here's a tip for all you newlyweds out there: Don't play William Tell with your wife unless you're in Mexico.--> watch "Ladies & Gentlemen, My Brother, The Failure"

Thursday "Ladies & Gentlemen: My Brother, The Failure" (Victory)
Travis Kopach, director | Jeremy Sullivan, producer | Dignity & Shame/Refused TV, production co | Jon Fordham, DP | Travis Kopach & Steve Pedulla, editors

SHOT: Thursday - Travis Kopach, director

Director Travis Kopach and DP Jon Fordham busted out the brand new Sony F23 HDCAM-SR 4:4:4 Uncompressed Digital Cinematography System (whew) for this new Thursday video. I'm usually a little braindead when it comes to technical stuff and cinematography equipment, but Fordham tells me that the camera is "TRULY revolutionary" (his emphasis) and is a story in and of itself. Me? I'm more into the video's giant cockroach.

The photo shows Fordham (foreground) and Kopach capturing a scene from the video in which  the roach attacks a sleeping princess. Click it to enlarge.

artist: Thursday
song: "Ladies and Gentlemen: My Brother, the Failure"
label: Victory
director(s): Travis Kopach
production co: Dignity & Shame/Refused TV

SHOT: Ringworm - Don Tyler, director

Jeez, talk about being two-faced... Also, note the Kiss tattoo.

artist: Ringworm
song: "The Ninth Circle"
label: Victory
director(s): Don Tyler
production co: Red 40 

BOOKED: Voodoo Glow Skulls - Kevin Shulman, director

artist: Voodoo Glow Skulls
song: "Fire In The Dancehall"
label: Victory 
director(s): Kevin Shulman
production co: Raging Nation Films

BOOKED: Aiden - Nathan Cox, director

artist: Aiden
song: "One Love"
label: Victory 
director(s): Nathan Cox
production co: Oracle Films
rep: Labuda Management

note: Nathan Cox remains signed with Merge @ Crossroads

BOOKED: June - Major Lightner, director

artist: June
song: "I'd Lose Myself"
label: Victory
director(s): Major Lightner
production co: MotivFilms
rep: RW Media

BOOKED: Silverstein - Endeavor Media, directors

artist: Silverstein
song: "If You Could See Into My Soul"
label: Victory
director(s): Endeavor Media
production co: Endeavor Media

SHOT: Comeback Kid - Endeavor Media, director

Comeback Kid singer Andrew Neufeld tries to get the message out the corrupt government forces running the world in this video for "Broadcasting."

artist: Comeback Kid
song: "Broadcasting"
label: Victory (US) / Smallman (Canada)
director(s): Endeavor Media
production co: Endeavor Media

BOOKED: Bayside - Endeavor Media, directors

artist: Bayside
song: "Duality"
label: Victory
director(s): Endeavor Media
production co: Endeavor Media

BOOKED: Beneath The Skies - Endeavor Media, directors

artist: Beneath The Skies
song: "7861"
label: Victory
director(s): Endeavor Media
production co: Endeavor Media

SHOT: Scars Of Tomorrow - Andrew DeYoung, director

artist: Scars Of Tomorrow
song: "The Unwinding" 
label: Victory
director(s): Andrew  DeYoung
production co: MNJ Productions

NEW RELEASE: The Black Maria "Waking Up With Wolves"

The Black Maria
"Waking Up With Wolves" (Victory)
Endeavor Media, director | Danny Yourd, producer | Endeavor Media, production co | Endeavor Media & Shannon Barry, DPs | Steve Hoover, editor | Description: The Black Maria singer Chris Gray makes a frantic call from a payphone to tip off a woman about an impending setup. Despite the warning, she's still not able to forestall her fate along a set of lonely railroad tracks. -- watch "Waking Up With Wolves"

SHOT: Endwell - Shane Drake, director

Director Shane Drake near the Brooklyn Bridge for an Endwell video shoot the weekend before the VMAs.

artist: Endwell
song: "Single And Loving It"
label: Victory
director(s): Shane Drake
production co: Red Van Pictures
rep: Labuda Management

BOOKED: Silverstein - Dale Resteghini, director

artist: Silverstein
song: "My Heroine"
label: Victory
director(s): Dale Resteghini
production co: Raging Nation Films/Blink Pictures (Canada)

BOOKED: The Black Maria - Endeavor Media, directors

artist: The Black Maria
song: "Waking Up With Wolves"
label: Victory
director(s): Endeavor Media
production co: Endeavor Media

SHOT: Nights Like These - Andrew DeYoung, director

artist: Nights Like These
song: "Scavenger's Daughter"
label: Victory
director(s): Andrew DeYoung
production co: MNJ Productions

BOOKED: Catch 22 - Major Lightner, director

Director Major Lightner and Victory Records band Catch 22 aren't concerned with parties for the "Party Song" video. Instead, they nod to Leon Trotsky's Communist party and the visually distinctive Soviet propaganda posters. The video will depict the band placing flyers of their fist logo all over NYC to stir up a crowd for a rally. Shooting this Sunday, June 8; Details on Catch 22's site.

artist: Catch 22
song: "Party Song"
label: Victory
director(s): Major Lightner
production co: MotivFilms
rep: RW Media

PHOTO: Hawthorne Heights & Dale Resteghini

Director Dale Resteghini (second from right) and Hawthorne Heights on the set of their video "Pens And Needles."

SHOT: The Sleeping - Mateo Suarez / Travis Kopach, directors

Production house Fashion Bleeds oversaw two videos for "Loud & Clear," the first single from Victory band The Sleeping. The first version is a live video directed by Mateo Suarez at the band's Saturday, April 22 gig in Levittown, Long Island.  The second version was directed by Travis Kopach and shot the next day in Brooklyn. The concept for Kopach's shoot involved the band performing beneath the Plexiglas floor of a surreal operating room (see pic at right).

artist: The Sleeping
song: "Loud & Clear"
label: Victory
director(s): Mateo Suarez (live version)
director(s): Travis Kopach (concept version)
production co: Fashion Bleeds

BOOKED: Hawthorne Heights - Dale Resteghini, director

Hawthorne Heights have tapped Dale Resteghini to direct a six camera 35mm shoot at a Spanish Monastery in Miami.

artist: Hawthorne Heights
song: "Pens And Needles"
label: Victory
director(s): Dale Resteghini
production co: Raging Nation Films

BOOKED: The Autumn Offering - Dale Resteghini, director

artist: The Autumn Offering
song: "Embrace The Gutter"
label: Victory
director(s): Dale Resteghini
production co: Raging Nation Films

SHOT: Atreyu - Jay Martin, director

artist: Atreyu
song: "Ex's And Oh's"
label: Victory
director(s): Jay Martin
production co: DNA

PHOTOGRAPHIC EVIDENCE: June "My Side Of The Story"

Victory band June get excited on the set of "My Side Of The Story" with DP Matt Caton (far left) and co-directors Frankie Nasso (front-center, left) and Dale Resteghini (front-center, right).

BOOKED: Darkest Hour - Joseph Pattisall, director

This multi-day shoot in the Washington, D.C. area will center around a masquerade ball.

artist: Darkest Hour
song: "Sound The Surrender"
label: Victory
director(s): Joseph Pattisall
production co: Wraith Films

NEW RELEASE: Action Action "The Game"

Action Action "The Game" Victory
Travis Kopach, director
Greg Pymm, producer
Fashion Bleeds, production co
Eric Robbins, DP
Description: Perhaps anticipating the insanity that can be caused by close quarters, the cube that serves as Action Action's performance space is lined like a padded cell. The cube itself is presumably the inside of a spacecraft, but the earthly locations seen outside the picture window indicate that Action Action remains grounded. -- Watch "The Game" in the February edition of the vicTorV video podcast

BOOKED: June - Dale Restighini & Frankie Nasso, directors

artist: June
song: "My Side Of The Story"
label: Victory
director(s): Dale Restighini & Frankie Nasso
production co: Raging Nation

PHOTOGRAPHIC EVIDENCE: Major Lightner and Hawthrone Heights

Director Major Lightner (center) with Hawthorne Heights members Micah Carli and JT Woodruff on the set of "Saying Sorry" in Chicago.

BOOKED: Hawthorne Heights - Major Lightner, director

Shooting today, December 12, in Chicago...

artist: Hawthorne Heights
song: "Saying Sorry"
label: Victory
director(s): Major Lightner
production co: MotivFilms
rep: RW Media

NEW RELEASE: Straylight Run "Hands In The Sky (Big Shot)"

Straylight Run "Hands In The Sky (Big Shot)" Victory
Travis Kopach, director
Greg Pymm, producer
Fashion Bleeds, production co
Eric Robbins, DP
Travis Kopach/The Now Corporation, editor
Description: The members of Straylight Run are kept in large water tanks as if they were human versions of Damien Hirst's infamous formaldehyde shark. The tanks are set in an office and a classroom, where everyone largely ignores the humans flailing underwater. At mid point, the tone of the song changes drastically and the video follows suit as well. Furry monsters show up to "take care" of the school kids and vintage war films are intercut at a rapid pace. The song and video both manage to be beautiful, yet profoundly creepy. Straylight Run's Web site has a very large Quicktime movie and a Windows Media version  of the video available for viewing.

SHOT: Bury Your Dead - Dale Resteghini, director

artist: Bury Your Dead
song: "Magnolia"
label: Victory
director(s): Dale Resteghini
production co: Raging Nation Films

SHOT: June - Shane Drake, director

artist: June
song: "Patrick"
label: Victory
director(s): Shane Drake
production co: Factory Features

BOOKED: Bayside - Major Lightner, director

A group of nuns and priests are forced to grapple with "Devotion And Desire" as they watch Bayside perform in a theater. Obviously "desire" will come out on top and we'll get to see these formerly pious people become downright sacrilegious.

artist: Bayside
song: "Devotion And Desire"
label: Victory
director(s): Major Lightner
production co: MotivFilms
rep: RW Media

PHOTOGRAPHIC EVIDENCE: Major Lightner and Hawthrone Heights

Lying down on the job? I think not. Major Lightner goes to great lengths to line up a shot in his "Niki F.M." video for Hawthorne Heights.

Astute Video Static readers will note that this is our first photographic diptych. Exciting, no? Too small and hard to make out details? Yes. So, click the image to launch a full size version.

 

SHOT: The Junior Varsity - Major Lightner & Robert Stoetzel, directors

Although this video was shot in Cincinnati, it will apparently bear the influence of painter David Hockney as it tells a tale of a fish out of water.

artist: The Junior Varsity
song: "Get Comfortable"
label: Victory
director(s): Major Lightner and Robert Stoetzel
production co: MotivFilms
rep: RW Media

BOOKED: Hawthorne Heights - Major Lightner, director

This Hawthorne Heights video is inspired by the movie Say Anything, in that it will be about an underachieving high school student in love with the beautiful and seemingly perfect valedictorian. Look for director Major Lightner to take that story to unexpected places through digitally composited backdrops and  morphed transitions.

artist: Hawthorne Heights
song: "Niki F.M."
label: Victory
director(s): Major Lightner
production co: MotivFilms
rep: RW Media

BOOKED: Darkest Hour - Dale Resteghini, director

artist: Darkest Hour
song: "Convalescence"
label: Victory
director(s): Dale Resteghini
production co: Raging Nation