{"id":6855,"date":"2018-01-31T23:23:31","date_gmt":"2018-02-01T07:23:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fwdlabs.com\/blog\/?p=6855"},"modified":"2018-02-01T01:45:00","modified_gmt":"2018-02-01T09:45:00","slug":"behind-the-justin-timberlake-say-something-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fwdlabs.com\/blog\/behind-the-justin-timberlake-say-something-video\/","title":{"rendered":"Behind the Justin Timberlake &#8220;Say Something&#8221; Video"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=8MPbR6Cbwi4\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/fwdlabs.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/justin-timberlake-say-something.gif\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Some fun facts about the Justin Timberlake &#8220;Say Something&#8221; video featuring Chris Stapleton, which was all live with no cuts:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The director, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.arturoperez.com\/\">Arturo Perez Jr.<\/a> of the Paris-based collective called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.blogotheque.net\/\">La Blogoth\u00c3\u00a8que<\/a>, hoped to do something purely acoustics, and the musicians agreed. The &#8220;concert&#8221; ended up taking &#8220;17 musicians, 60 choristers, five floors, two elevators, one camera and many microphones &#8230; shot live in the prestigious Bradbury Building in Los Angeles.&#8221; [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.blogotheque.net\/2018\/01\/25\/justin-timberlake-chris-stapleton-say-something-2\/\">Source<\/a>]<\/li>\n<li>All one take on Panavision C Series anamorphic, DP&#8217;d by Bill Kirstein and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.arturoperez.com\/Justin-Timberlake-Chris-Stapleton\">&#8220;ninja&#8221;<\/a> operated by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm1811288\/\">Ari Robbins, SOC<\/a> (who did Steadicam on &#8220;La La Land&#8221;) [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/permalink.php?story_fbid=1704719476259589&#038;id=111116768953209\">Source<\/a>]<\/li>\n<li>According to Ari himself, the lens was a &#8220;42-425 with an ARRI [Alexa] Mini. Focus puller was Jenna Hoffman,&#8221; who obviously did an incredible job as well. [<a href=\"https:\/\/fstoppers.com\/comment\/354082\">Source<\/a>]<\/li>\n<li>One of the members of the collective, &#8220;Clumsy,&#8221; tweeted that the earpieces &#8220;were only there for them to hear each other as there were 17 musicians on 5 different floors.&#8221; [<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/beclumsy\/status\/957990842215682048\">Source<\/a>]<\/li>\n<li>Pre-production took two weeks: &#8220;I walked the Bradbury Building for two and a half days\u00e2\u20ac\u201djust walking through it like a crazy person. We walked and walked and talked about it,&#8221; Perez says. &#8220;What we didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t want to happen was for this to just be a Justin Timberlake one-take video gag. We\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve been doing this for a while, and we don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t get high off of doing a one-take video. We get high off of creating poetry.&#8221; [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.esquire.com\/entertainment\/music\/a15895135\/justin-timberlake-say-something-video-director-interview\/\">Source<\/a>]<\/li>\n<li>Camera rehearsals surely aside, according to Justin Timberlake (and the slate at the end), it wasn&#8217;t just one shot, the video was done in just one take. [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/BebJD8Ehpev\/?utm_source=ig_embed\">Source<\/a>]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Watch it here:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Justin Timberlake - Say Something (Official Video) ft. Chris Stapleton\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/8MPbR6Cbwi4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some fun facts about the Justin Timberlake &#8220;Say Something&#8221; video featuring Chris Stapleton, which was all live with no cuts: The director, Arturo Perez Jr. of the Paris-based collective called La Blogoth\u00c3\u00a8que, hoped to do something purely acoustics, and the musicians agreed. The &#8220;concert&#8221; ended up taking &#8220;17 musicians, 60 choristers, five floors, two elevators, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":43,"featured_media":6872,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6855","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-film"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fwdlabs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6855","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fwdlabs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fwdlabs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fwdlabs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/43"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fwdlabs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6855"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/fwdlabs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6855\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6881,"href":"https:\/\/fwdlabs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6855\/revisions\/6881"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fwdlabs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6872"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fwdlabs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fwdlabs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fwdlabs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}