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www.postmagazine.com 18 POST MAY/JUNE 2025 MUSIC VIDEOS S AV E F E R R I S - G E T D A N C I N G Save Ferris, the Ska/punk band from Southern California, recently re- leased a new music video to coincide with their Spring 2025 Tour. Get Dancing takes on a guerrilla style, with frontwoman Monique Powell per- forming the track at Venice Beach, while locals go about their business around her. As the track plays out, various friends join Powell, one by one, supporting her dance moves and playful energy. While the video appears spontaneous, director Ashley Kimmet says the shoot, in fact, spanned three days. Prior to the shoot, the band post- ed a video on Instagram, inviting fans to learn the choreographed moves and to show up once the LA location's date was announced. "We shot a different location each day in Venice," Kimmet recalls. "We did that for several reasons, one of which was for different visual looks. The other reason was to not upset the shop owners, because the kind of shooting we did was more or less guerrilla filmmaking." Kimmet says the weather — slightly overcast — turned out to be perfect for the shoot, acting like a big silk screen in front of the sun. The video was captured using a set of Canon 5D Mark IV cameras. "They are really good cameras to use for 4K quality, with interchange- able lenses," he notes. Kimmet performed the edit himself, using Adobe Premiere Pro on a 2019 Apple Mac Pro. "The real challenge for the shoot was primarily shooting on Venice Beach without city permits," he reveals. "It really made for quite a chal- lenging shoot, just being quite nervous the whole time with the realiza- tion that at any moment, police could show up and shut us down, not to mention store and stall owners that don't want to be filmed. One work- around with that was, we had a few local friends in Venice that knew most of the stall owners and seemed to be able to smooth things over. All in all, it was quite a good shoot!" E N D S O N G - T H E B O O K O F C O M P L A I N T S Endsong is a New York City-based progressive rock quartet. To support their new album "Our Road to Dust," the band turned to Atlanta-based creative Wayne Joyner (waynejoyner.com), who created an animated lyric video for the track "Book of Complaints." In the video, a book is pulled from the shelf of an old library. Upon opening it, the lyrics appear in time with the song, and imagery pops out of the book as its pages turn, visualizing the song's lyrics and themes. "The song was called 'Book of Complaints'…so the song's about a book," Joyner recalls. "Let me see what I can try to do with animating a book. I made this cool pop-up book, and I used all these cutouts that I found." When it comes to his music-video work, the band or artist often isn't sure what direction to go in for a song, giving him a lot of creative freedom. In the case of "Book of Complaints," the band suggested the idea of a "haunted library in the woods." "I was like, 'How am I going to do this?" he recalls. Joyner turned to Envato, an online marketplace for video imagery, templates and photography. He also used LTX Studio, a free AI video generator, to create the library backdrop. "Some people are against this, and some are not," he says of AI's place in production. "I didn't have the time to go and model an entire library." He found a number of two-dimensional characters on the Envato site and animated them in a style similar to that on a pop-up book. Then, he loaded the imagery into After Effects and applied a dust layer, helping to create depth and the look of a 3D environment. Joyner uses Adobe Premiere for editing, running on an Alienware PC. For videos that will appear on YouTube, he will typically provide the client with a high-definition deliverable. On occasion, he will create 4K assets. Joyner is currently creating the on-stage visuals for Creed's upcoming summer tour. Looking back at the Endsong video, he ultimately spent around two weeks working on it and says the band really didn't ask for any revisions. "These guys were pretty happy, and pretty easy to please."