Hell On Earth Tattoo Showcase

Hey There!

Here is a showcase video i recently made using only FCPX featuring my good friend and renowned artist Adam Lee Kilsby.

We have tried to show his tattoo work in an exciting and modern way, and to give a fast paced feel to something that actually took several hours.

I had great fun creating this, and we really hope you enjoy it too!

Please any feed back is always welcome.

All the best

Scott T

The combination of music, effects & tricks you've forged together here are very effective. It has a hip music video feel & the style choices you made fit the subculture genre.

It starts to feel a bit long, so perhaps around 3 minutes could have been more engaging. Maybe showing the key stages of the tattoo's formation rather than so much of the process. The problem of connecting the audience with the artist comes from the cumbersome equipment necessary. We could sense you were feeling that constriction as well, with the only clear POV being a fairly poor angle. The artist is so hunched over his work, & unlike a painter's brush tip, we have a large piece of obscuring apparatus making it near impossible for us to see the art thru his eyes. So that crucial component is missing. At first I thought if perhaps we were on a ladder over him shooting down, but I see that's also virtually impossible. Our POV problem is further compounded by the curvature of his canvas, we're basically looking at the back of the neck on the head he's drawing.

The angle near the end when he's wiping away to reveal the nearly finished piece is the most workable. I wouldn't have minded more from that perspective. Even if we were set there, he was prompted to do the wipe, then place his needle inker in position as if working then as we pull back inside the camera he moves the gun to reveal the emerging piece.

It's difficult on the day, working with so many variables but occasionally the faked shots make for a better visual narrative.

Liked all your color shifts, drips & reversals, as well as the blurs & disorientation effects, felt like a bit of a drug trip. I also liked the camera tracking into the light but not so much coming back out of it, preferring instead that we came out in the tattoo, or better yet, a glint in the artist's eye. The latter could work well as a cheat shot where we film straight up into his face with his inking tool over the lens as we pull focus back to his eye. This puts us in the position of the artist's canvas where we become the art.

Nice work. Thanks for sharing, Scott.







J. Matthew
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