C NEZZ - Benjamins

C Nezz - Benjamins was one of my first professional music videos. This video took very little to a lot of work to produce. You might ask, did he just say very little? to a lot of work? The video itself we decided to do it on a boring day and a friend had asked if we could do a video for him. So we had decided that we could do it that day if we paid us. Paying us a good sum, we went out and chose a spot within the first few minutes. Bringing nothing but a tripod and 5d MKIII the video was shot in an hour and left for editing.

The artist was himself was so excited to see it that he had come over during editing, which is one thing I myself have always hated. Looking at it he loved it, which gave us a confidence boost in which we would go on to finish this music video in a whole new style than what we had done before.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5kUCTMLIaxY

Constantly Staying Busy.

An artist is his/her own critic, meaning that you will judge your own work harder than anyone else. I myself conduct a lot of work and always find myself criticizing it the most while everyone else loves it. One of my more recent pieces of work was this little mini film I had done with my business partner William Gonzalez. It consisted of just an older modern look of a tourist walking down the street towards an alleyway where the fight scene takes place. In this scene I wanted to show gruesome striking as well as a very gruesome but unique piece of work. Like every other short I do in my spare time, I like to just go out to locations I know of or new areas I have been dieing to shoot in and just simply come up with an idea and shoot. This one being one of those that we had rushed and had done in a last minute shoot after all other ideas failed. We always learn from our shoots especially this one and continually get better at having to come up with something last minute.

Raqfilms The Beginning

 

 During my time as an Artist and as a person in general evolving RAQFilms from it just being the initials of my name to something people recognize I had the time to evaluate a lot of things and projects. Projects including events, Films, Commercials, Music Videos, etc... Through that experience I had the chance to really establish what I want in this career field. Where I began to get my inspiration from was from the Vegas Night Clubs and the Night life Scene, I was always fascinated by it even though its not exactly what everyone expects. I started out with the Rave scene in which I had met my business partner and he had introduced me into this life style. He showed me the safest and realest way to evolve as a Camera Operator. He guided me as I was young and helped me grow as an individual. The life helped me experiment with cameras and learn them to the fullest under low light environments. Truly in the end my foundation came of RAQFilms was from the contribution of my colleague and the night life I was exposed to in Vegas.

Through my time, I've found myself taking on more work than I can handle. Not necessarily speaking that I did too much but couldn't get it done. I've done enough and could actually get it done. Although not perfect my partner Willy Gee and myself created a modern western short. This short depicted two bad guys who seem to have robbed a bank and are now running away. Encountering some trouble, the undertaker comes to stop them. Without a background story, its left for the viewers interpretation.

William Gonzalez staring as the last bandit alive stands in front of the undertake face to face in a shoot off. Both firing and hitting each other are left to die on the dirt path they shot off. With an unexpected shift in events the other bandit never had died previously to being shot in the beginning. Leaving one bandit with an easy way out and the other dead and betrayed. This betrayal would end up sealing the fate of the event.