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