Lighting was all natural — just sunlight and a handheld 2x4’ white bounce for fill. We tracked the forecast and saw a break in the rain lining up with golden hour. Took the risk — and right as the clouds parted, we got clean sun and textured skies. Felt like it was meant to be. Music video + visualizers for josephdjones We wanted to shoot anamorphic, but had to deliver vertical for socials. Cropping a widescreen image meant losing too much resolution—so we flipped a 100mm Lomo roundfront sideways to get a full-frame, near full-res 1:1 anamorphic image. The result gave us horizontal oval bokeh and vertical flares. Since you can’t vertically desqueeze in-camera or on monitors, we had to get crafty—routing the image to a computer for desqueeze, then back into camera. Two Teradeks, in and out. It introduced some delay and signal issues, so our DIT cart had to stay within 10–15 feet of our always-moving camera. Director: sunce_shoots_ Cinematographer kenzentakahashi EP: kierrabivins E...