Apache Beat

Director Hunter Fairstone hired camera-op Jeff Melanson, cinematographer David Kruta, and 1st AC Sarah Tricker to shoot a video for Apache Beat’s newest hit single “Your Powers are Magic“.

We shot over the span of one night in the woods of New Jersey, just a half hour from New York. There were many initial technical problems with the lights that we had to work through and it was also very difficult to work in the cold weather. But in the end the footage turned out very nicely.

“The highly stylized sequence follows lead singer Ilirjana Alushaj lost in a forest and performing the song. We shot on the RED One with 16mm OI Ultra Prime lenses, and made extensive use of Steadicam and slow motion.” – David Kruta

Ilirjana wrote a blog for Nylon Magazine which includes coverage of pre-production: Part 1, Part 2, and Part 3.