Music Videos

Created by seniors and juniors in the 'Direction' program.

The 'Direction' program aims to raise the bar for what teens are capable of in film production. Students are introduced to a deeper technical and creative level of filmmaking, by collaborating with New England based musicians in the creation of original music videos.  

We help guide them through each step of the process, from initial idea-generation with the musician, to casting, to production, to color grading. 

These films are full of drama and daring charades that only these imaginative students could dream up. Often times, their craziest ideas are the ones we go for. 

LAND Exhibit 

This video was made by a brilliant alumni I've had the pleasure to work with on multiple occasions. For this video, we were tasked with documenting art work that the entire organization of RAW had made around figures that were "Landing." 

This project was extremely complex--it spanned the entire organization: all students of all ages, all their art work, multiple creative visions, extreme slow-motion photography, huge ingestions of media, and not least of all, photographing art work that simply would not stand upright. 

Mirrors 

This film was the powerful vision of a student with tastes I can get behind-- Moonrise Kingdom, 500 Days of Summer-- and we both secretly dislike Ghostbusters. 

The process to get these honest, vulnerable performances on camera was rigorous: lots of casting, coaxing, convincing, leveling, negotiating, asking, and asking again. It was worth it. This student's film is often shown in tandem with lessons on self-perception, showing in frank, brutal terms how devastating our "inner critic" can be. 

© Bryan Sih 2016