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Brotherly love Recognised for their work on Ghost Crew’s To Night, director-DOP duo Rui Wang and Yu-Ming Huang share the project’s painstaking details – from working with limited resources to editing the video themselves L isting Kendrick Lamar, Yvnnis and Little Simz as influences, brothers Rui Wang and Yu-Ming Huang –
and were introduced by a mutual friend and former member of Beijing- based band In3. Ghost Crew’s mantra on music videos was simple: “We’d rather not have any music videos at all than settle for a mediocre piece,” Wang paraphrases. “That was my mindset, too.”
everything down to the second,” he shares, even creating an animatic – but like almost all productions, things didn’t always go accordingly. “While the final product ended up being quite different from our original expectation, the process was all about execution, precision and, at many times, compromise.” As with many music videos, To Night came with a limited budget, presenting a challenge to Wang, Huang and the rest of their crew. Forced to adapt (and sometimes work for 16 straight hours), they “had to constantly improvise”, explains Wang, and roll with
otherwise known as Hwang Broz – took home gold in the music video category at last year’s CVP and Canon Stories in Motion Young Filmmaker competition . Directing and editing To Night for Chinese rap group Ghost Crew, Wang opted for a ‘fusion of various visual techniques and scattered ideas’, with Huang serving as the project’s DOP and camera operator. The pair had been fans of Ghost Crew’s music before they released their first album ( Lost in the Streets )
The best laid plans Shot over three days during the
brothers’ winter break, To Night began with a ‘conceptual mood board’, which quickly developed into a ‘more detailed storyboard’, recalls Wang. “I planned
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