Buzznet Exclusive: Otenki Premieres BTS Video For ‘Kinetic’!
Hey Music Pals,
The dudes in Otenki have given all of you Buzznet readers a chance to check out their new BTS video for the song “Kinetic” before anyone else! Check it out:
Here are some words from the band on what inspired this video!
Late in 2013 we were working on doing a re-release of our EP called “The War Outside”. OC Films owners Cris Rodriguez and Orlando Briones approached us around the same time we were thinking of doing this. We had met with other directors and right from the jump OC Films knew exactly how to make this vision of our come alive. We felt that immediate chemistry and we knew that as long as we did our work they could take it where it needed to go. The concept of the video was conceived by our vocalist German. I have to hand it to German, he had such a strong vision for what he wanted to do. After the artwork was put together for the album he took the theme and ran with it. We wanted to take the title of the re-release and build a world around it. The premise is that the band along with our friends are part of a group free thinkers who are currently at war with those who have been assimilated. They’re all being controlled as evidence of the sensors that are placed on the back of their necks. The story begins with German and our friend Leslie arriving to our headquarters and being attacked. From there we watch our friend being assimilated and we fight for her freedom. Everything comes to a climax with a wild fight in the streets. When we were with Orlando and Cris planning out it became clear to us that if we wanted to have things the right feel we would need to get our fans, friends and families involved. German ran point and spent a lot of time getting us all the extras and the props we needed for the video. He also brought in the wonderful people of the Houston Zombie Walk staff. The HZW team helped make the fight scenes, make up, and props come to life. We spent a lot of time with Robert Gouner, the art director explaining what we needed and he along with Patrick Hastings brought their A-game.
The shoot was planned to be completed in one day so obviously it took two days to make happen. Our first location was this awesome warehouse in the outskirts of Downtown and 3rd Ward. We arrived on set around 3 pm and our production team was already on site putting things together. On the video set there’s a lot of hurry up and wait so as our extras started showing up we spent most of our time hanging out and thanking them for them taking time to make help us out. We had over 75 people come out to be part of the fight scene. We first started with the internal warehouse scenes. They were pretty straight forward in but with Cris he was so concerned with every detail it made for a great experience. We shot inside for a few hours and as it got dark we needed to get in the motorcycle scenes done. First up was the scenes of German and Leslie being attacked. The scene called for Leslie to be pulled away quickly while German is pulled off the bike and beaten down. I have to say our friends made it look really great, and to be honest I think a few of them might have got some hits in too. From there we moved to the fight scene. For this we set off some flares and smoke bombs to prior to the clash. What I loved about this is how chaotic it looked. We’re not professional stunt men and women but we were able to pull off this huge scene. It was like a mosh pit with lots of pushing, pulling and I even had the chance to lift someone up and throw them! That was definitely a first and easily my favorite part of filming. Day two was a much smaller crew and cast, we headed to a small art house that my friend Bill Bussey owns. Here we shot the scenes of Leslie being controlled and the final fight scene with myself, our lead guitar player Fausto and the assimilated bad guys. The halls were were really narrow so we weren’t able to use any smoke bombs but it made for our fight scene to be really intense. We had to really use care not to knock each other into the walls, all the while making sure our fight looked realistic. Our art director and make up artist did an amazing job with the girls in the final scenes with their bruises and scars. They looked great and incredibly life like.
Everything from start to finish with this video was the best. We are so fortunate to have had the experience. Otenki along with OC Films and the Houston Zombie Walk were able to bring this vision for KINETIC come to life and I can’t wait to show this one off. This is easily the best video we’ve ever done!
So…What did you think of the video?!
