Rhonda Vincent: I Gotta Start Somewhere
“I had been in pre-production for the movie ‘Last Ounce Of Courage’ and was about three weeks from the start of the production. Again, I got a call from my good buddy Dallas Henry, he said, ‘I got a video, I can’t do it without you.’ I said, ‘Let me see what I can do.’ I scrambled to help Dallas with the treatment and finish up my pre-production work on ‘Last Ounce’. My schedule cleared, and the video was on.
It turned out that Rhonda had written a song about escaping to the Carolina Mountains.
Well, Outpost Worldwide owns a bunch of cabins in the Carolina Mountains … we should shoot there! Here at the office we scrambled around to send pictures to Dallas so he could wrap his mind around what he wanted me to shoot. We then took a scouting trip to try and determine the locations. Boy was that challenging, but it turned out great.
The shoot was great. I took our entire movie crew on a road trip across the United States, and we shot one of my favorite videos. The movie crew and I made it back just two days before the start of the movie. Boy, was it a long haul, but, worth it. Check out Rhonda’s video and also check out the trailer for ‘Last Ounce of Courage’.”
- Jason Cantu: Director of Photography, Outpost Worldwide
Craig Morgan: International Harvester
“I had only made a couple of small budget videos with my Director buddy Dallas Henry, when he called me one day out of the blue and said, ‘I got this huge music video, can you send me a budget yesterday?’ I said, ’sure.’
Next thing I knew we’d landed a big budget video for a major country artist, but, we had only five days to turn it around for a three day shoot! Talk about pressure! We knew we were shooting in Wichita, and the treatment called for shutting down major intersections. In addition we needed lots of cars, combines, semi-trucks, and extras.
Luckily we were both from Wichita so we managed to get the combines, semi’s etc. etc. from our childhood friends that were in the farming business. Dallas had a publicist putting out cattle calls over the local radio and TV for people to come out and bring there cool cars if they wanted to be in the video. The only real problem was getting the city of Wichita to shut down the intersection of First and Broadway.
It seemed that everything was coming together, but we were still flying by the seat of out pants. We’d gone to Augusta, KS and thought we’d shoot some scenes there, but then changed out minds and went with the open wheat fields of Andale, KS. Beautiful! Anyway, things were coming together, and it is the day before the shoot and the city of Wichita still had done nothing about shutting down the streets!
Luckily, with some help from the Wichita City Council and some influential people, the council unanimously decided to shut down the streets and let us take over their downtown…a mere six or seven hours before our 5 am call time.
Check out the video to see what happened!
Special thanks to all our friends in Wichita that helped us make this a successful video.
I might also mention it was on the CMT top 20 for 8 months….”
- Jason Cantu: Director of Photography, Outpost Worldwide
The Architects: Don’t Call It a Ghetto
Local Kansas City Band The Architects rock and roll sound come to life in the music video Don’t Call it a Ghetto. Shot at midnight in an old, deteriorating roofless warehouse in the bottoms of Old Kansas City, The Architects shine in the dark, leaving the audience wanting more.
Roman Numerals: The Rule of V
The Architects: Pills
“My good friend, John Hulston, owns the Record Label Anodyne Records. I have done many videos for his company over the years. He called me with a video that he wanted to make flashier than any other video he had ever done. And so, ‘Pills’ was born. I called my director buddy Dallas Henry to come in and help me direct this video. Dallas is kind of a country boy and I didn’t know how he would like working on a punk rock video, but he was totally open to it.
The video is about the over medication of America. Dallas thought that current events such as celebrity media would be a good way to portray the debauchery of the abuse of pills. So, we wrote in a Heath Ledger and Brittany Spears type characters to play out the scenario of the video.
And of course, the pills. You can’t make a video about pills without pills, so, I went on the hunt to find and buy as many pills as I possibly could. After weeks of trying I finally found a company that would sell me pills. I bought 60,000 different colored gel caps. The company told me that they sell pills to lots of film productions. So, I wasn’t the first random person to make such a request with them.
The video went great thanks to old abandon Menniger’s hospital in Topeka. They are now owned by St. Joseph’s hospital and they were a great group of people to work with. The hospital was perfect to pull off the creepy tone of the video. I might add, because of budget constraints, we made this video with a bunch of college interns. They did a great job and hats off to everyone who helped make this video a great success.”
- Jason Cantu: Director of Photography, Outpost Worldwide