Projects
SUDDEN ADDICTION
I had an opportunity to shoot a Russian Pop artist Katerina Bravve's music video with my team. Here is the making of it.
Loving the KINO tubes in the studio for the close up preformance shot.
Filming out of a helicopter chasing two speed boats around Catalina Island.
Shooting the helicopter up close.
Lighting the scene with the moody red on the sound stage.
We kept the camera package light. RED Scarlet MX 4k
Restaurant scene with Katerina Bravve.
Life Detour | Commercial Fishing Alaska
The fishing vessel I was on for about 8 months.
South East Alaska on the Anthony G
Top of the boat shooting the full net of fish
At 21 years old I graduated film school and was ready for a new adventure in life. I got an opportunity to join a commercial fishing vessel. It would be leaving the docks of Ventura to fish all the way along the Pacific to South East Alaska. This seemed like a good opportunity for me to see the coast and film. I also would learning a new trade as a deck hand.
I filmed everyday and created short videos to keep my skills strong and experiment with editing technics. I started my first blog from day 1 until I finished the trip.
The Los Angeles Film School featured me on their website.
Swang with me
Green screen capture in FCP7
This music video was such a learning experience for me as a filmmaker. I had to handle not only my whole crew and talent but help keep a crazy house full of extras focused. As a kid I always watched MTV and loved watching music videos before and after school. I dreamed of directing fun music videos like Ludicris, Busta Rhymes and Missy Elliot.
Walter French is such a humble cool artist and such a great performer. He is very easy person to direct because he is a natural on camera. Our producer Cameron Gayed got us this house in Tustin and helped us fill the place with extras. Our other producer Alex Munoz helped us with getting the green screen studio to shoot some of the performance shots.
This was the first time my business partner Enoch Kim and I worked together on a project. The creativity and collaboration was exciting. Shorty Sadang my other partner in crime helped me with editing and adding all the post flares.
TESLA (Model S) | TSW Alloy Wheels
Marcus Sotelo and Shorty Sadang with the new Tesla Model S for a day.
Follow shots down PCH
We got the chance to shoot the Tesla Model S when it just first came out for our client TSW Alloy Wheels. I was a little skeptical about electric cars until I got behind the wheel of one of these. Really fun couple days of shooting around Huntington Beach and Corona Del Mar. This was the first project we work on for TSW. This project was shot and edited by Marcus Sotelo and Shorty Sadang.