The Fall of Man Music Video Production with Sophie Lloyd and Matt Heafy

Excited to share this video with you all! I learn more and more each time my team and I are on set making sh*t happen!

As a director, you have to set the tone and be an example for your cast and crew.

As the director, you are the visionary, the person in charge of inspiring your cast and crew and getting them to believe and fully invest in the project.

One of my favorite directors Werner Herzog is known for taking things to the extreme, bending the rules, and pushing his team to the limits but never without so doing so first. Herzog often wanted to partake in dangerous stunts the rest of the crew didn’t approve of. One particular misunderstanding happened during a scene in Rescue Dawn where Christian Bale’s character was being tortured aka Bale himself and was first hung upside-down, then spun around; the men spinning Bale were not native English speakers, and though they were urged to do it “faster.” Bale was not able to stand up straight for three days after recording that scene but guess who did it first? To his credit, Herzog did everything he asked his actors to do, and he did it first. When Bale’s character had to devour live maggots, Herzog showed him how, devouring a handful of maggots himself.

Be the example your cast and crew want and need.

Enjoy some of the footage and video below. Let us know what you think!